Rizal Philippines
October 18, 2017
From Business Korea - Promoting Hydrogen Cars
Arirang TV channel announced yesterday the forays of Korea into clean renewable energy pushing for 50,000 hydrogen fueled cars in 2010 and hundred more hydrogen fuel recharging station. The byproduct of hydrogen cars is pure water. Hyundai and Kia are at the forefront of such technology. Hyundai plans to produce 3,600 such cars dubbed as fuel cell electrical vehicles (FCEV) which surpasses Toyotas plan of 3,000 such vehicles. Its main model now is the Tucson FE. The market for such car would be in Europe and America.
The hindrance to growth of FCEV is the high cost of hydrogen charging station. It costs nearly 3 million bars to build one. A single charge can power the cars up to 500 km and can take as quick as 3 minutes which overcomes the limitation of a battery powered car.
Most battery powered cars have range of 100 miles on a charge; but Tesla Model 3 has 200 miles thanks to Panasonic Lithium Ion battery
However this August, Hy6ndai was reported to switching back to battery powered EVs because of such limitation. Even in US there are only 38 reported hydrogen charging stations with most of them concentrated in California. For battery powered cars, the US a major market is crisscrossed by the electric grid for recharging. Most EV cars, however have limited range
And are still unaffordable for most. But its a way to face the growing scarcity of fossil fuels, and to combat climate change
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