Toyota unveiled its commercialization plans for its fuel cell electric vehicles (FCEV) at the 2012 Geneva Motor Show on March 7, 2012, presenting its FCV-R concept.
Toyota unveiled its commercialization plans for its fuel cell electric vehicles (FCEV) at the 2012 Geneva Motor Show on March 7, 2012, presenting its FCV-R concept.
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The new programme – UKH2Mobility – will evaluate the potential for hydrogen as a fuel for Ultra Low Carbon Vehicles in the UK before developing an action plan for an anticipated roll-out to consumers in 2014/15.
The world’s first fleet of hydrogen-fuelled 3-wheelers, or rickshaws, were launched in New Delhi.
Toyota is looking beyond hybrids. The world’s largest automaker plans global sales of a few thousand units of its hydrogen-burning fuel cell vehicle by 2015.
“The future of mobility is made of smaller, powerful and efficient engines - said Fabio Orecchini, H2Roma scientific coordinator - with different fuels (gasoline, natural gas / biomethane and LPG, diesel and even hydrogen ) and increasingly electrified traction with lightweight and efficient on-board batteries. H2Roma (the 2011 edition has just been completed) is the only event in the industry can boast ten successive years, and this allows us to highlight the proposals by major automakers in the world in a decade.” That is what comes from the analysis of the ten editions: – 2002 – 2003 hydrogen and hybrid cars; - 2004 – 2007 hydrogen and hybrid cars, biofuels, natural gas and LPG; – 2008 – 2009 electric and hybrid cars, biofuels, natural gas and LPG; – 2010 downsizing and electrification (electric, hybrid, plug-in hybrid, hydrogen), LPG and bio-methane; – 2011 downsizing and electrification (gasoline, natural gas /biomethane and LPG, diesel, hydrogen, electric drive and batteries). Efficiency and sustainability are therefore the common thread in a changing situation which led many of the proposed solutions from research to market. Source: ElectricMobility.it
The RAI TV program easy rider showed the arrival of the three Mercedes-Benz B-Class F-CELL vehicles with zero local emissions in front of the Mercedes-Benz Museum in Stuttgart, after more than 30.000 kilometers.
The hydrogen-powered B-Classes and their support vehicles set off from Stuttgart at the end of January on the occasion of the official 125th birthday of the automobile, and on their way have crossed through 14 countries on four continents.
“With the F-CELL World Drive we have shown, that the time for electric vehicles with fuel cell has come. Now the development of the infrastructure has to pick up speed,” said Dr. Dieter Zetsche, Chairman of the Board of Management and Head of Mercedes-Benz Cars.
The three Mercedes B-Class F-CELL cars began their planned 125 day World Drive in Stuttgart, Germany in early January marking the 125th anniversary of the automobile and have been circumnavigating the globe, making their way across southern Europe, North America and Australia. Having successfully completed the Australian leg of the tour, the cars were on display at the Auto Shanghai show before they departed on the final part of their journey. The final leg will see the cars travel approximately 14,000 kilometres over 41 days, making their way across China, Kazakhstan, Russia, Finland, Sweden, Norway and Denmark before finally arriving home in Stuttgart and parking in the exact positions where they started, thus completing the circumnavigation. Fully fuelled the cars can travel approximately 380 kilometres. Careful planning has been required to ensure the cars can be refuelled, primarily at Mercedes Benz and Linde AG locations, though these are less abundant throughout the final leg so this is likely to be the most challenging test of the cars’ versatility. Source: Fuel Cell Today
At the Assolombarda Auditorium of Milan, on March 1, 2011, was held the conference “E-Car great demand, adequate supply?” organized by Assolombarda, Unindustria and in collaboration with Deloitte.
During the meeting, Marco Martina – Head of Automotive Deloitte Consulting – presented the second electric vehicle Deloitte observatory showing a preview of the results of the “Global e-Vehicle Survey” by Deloitte, an international study (to be completed and submitted in the next months) that describes the characteristics and trends in demand for electric cars in major automotive markets.
The research has been conducted by Deloitte Global through specific questionnaires submitted to a panel of 4,760 European motorists from 28 January 2011 to 10 February 2011. The European countries involved are Belgium, France, Germany, Italy, Spain, Turkey and UK.
- Hyundai has revealed its next generation fuel cell vehicle, the Tucson ix, which has a total range between refuelling of 403 miles, compared to 230 miles with the previous version. This means that the range is now equivalent to a gasoline vehicle.
It achieves this range by storing hydrogen at 700 bar. The previous generation, the Tucson, stored hydrogen at 350 bar.
The 700 bar fuel tank can store 5.6 kg of compressed hydrogen, compared to 3.5kg with the previous version. The new version also has a 21 kW battery for short term energy storage, whereas the previous version had a 100 kW super capacitor.
The “gasoline equivalent fuel efficiency” is calculated to be more than 70 miles per gallon, a 15-percent improvement over the previous version.
The overall volume of the fuel cell system was reduced by 20 per cent by modularising the fuel cell stack, balance of plant (BOP), inverter and high voltage junction box.