Hydrogen, Fuel Cells and Fuel Cell Vehicles
Abstract
Hydrogen has long been advocated as the ultra-clean fuel because its combustion produces pure water and no pollutants. As long ago as the 1930s, a German engineer demonstrated that an internal-combustion engine could be made to run on hydrogen. More recently, the automotive company BMW has built and demonstrated a small fleet of cars fuelled by hydrogen with the fuel stored on board as cryogenic liquid. An alternative approach to utilizing hydrogen is in an electrochemical fuel cell to generate electricity to drive an electric motor. This mode of transport is the counterpart of the battery electric vehicle (BEV). Fuel cell vehicles provide greater driving range and faster refuelling ...
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