Abstract Hydrogen is an especially attractive transportation fuel. It is the least populating fuel available, and can be produced anywhere there is water and a clean source of electricity. A fuel cycle in which hydrogen is produced by solar-electrolysis of water, or by gasification of renewably grown biomass, and then used in a fuel-cell powered electric-motor vehicle (FCEV), would produce little or no local, regional or global pollution. Hydrogen FCEVs would combine the best features of battery-powered electric vehicles (BPEVS)-zero emissions, high efficiency, quiet operation and long life-with the long range and fast refueling time of internal-combustion-engine vehicles (ICEVs). If fuel-cell technology develops as hoped, then hydrogen FCEVs will be a significant advance over both hydrogen ICEVs and solar BPEVs: they will be cleaner and more efficient than hydrogen ICEVs, have a much shorter refueling time than BPEVs and have a lower life-cycle cost than both. Solar-hydrogen fuel-cell vehicles would be general-purpose zero-emission vehicles, and could be an important component of a strategy for reducing dependence on imported oil, mitigating global warming and improving urban air quality, at an acceptable cost.


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    Titel :

    Solar-hydrogen fuel-cell vehicles


    Beteiligte:
    DeLuchi, Mark A. (Autor:in) / Ogden, Joan M. (Autor:in)


    Erscheinungsdatum :

    1993-01-01


    Format / Umfang :

    21 pages




    Medientyp :

    Aufsatz (Zeitschrift)


    Format :

    Elektronische Ressource


    Sprache :

    Englisch



    Solar-hydrogen fuel-cell-vehicles

    DeLuchi, Mark A. | Online Contents | 1993


    Solar-hydrogen fuel-cell vehicles

    DeLuchi, M. A. / Ogden, J. M. | British Library Online Contents | 1993


    Hydrogen fuel-cell vehicles

    Delucchi, Mark | TIBKAT | 1992