Hyundai sees green future in hydrogen-powered cars

wtop.com ^ | June 29, 2015 6:23 am

[ckilmer]

YONGIN, South Korea (AP) — Hyundai Motor Co. said Monday it believes hydrogen fuel cell vehicles are the future for eco-friendly cars despite challenges of limited infrastructure and slow sales.

South Korea’s largest automaker has sold or leased 273 Tucson fuel cell SUVs since beginning production in 2013, lower than its 1,000 target, mostly in Europe and California.

[ckilmer]

The only important thing about this article is the amount of money Hyudai plans to spend on alternatively fueled vehicles. Its unlikely that the other major car companies are not investing similarly. //////////////// Hyundai also produces hybrid cars and electric vehicles. It plans to invest 11.3 trillion won ($10 billion) in eco-friendly technology including hybrid cars, electric battery vehicles and hydrogen fuel cells in the four years from 2015.

[mountainlion]

I did not read how they were going to produice the Hydrogen but one method is to extract Hydrogen form natural gas and waste the rest which is mostly CO2.

[mountainlion]

I did not read how they were going to produce the Hydrogen but one method is to extract Hydrogen form natural gas and waste the rest which is mostly CO2.

[Stosh]

Extracting energy from dihydrogen is just a technical problem which should be amenable to a number of practical approaches - finding an economical and environmentally-friendly source of dihydrogen is the real trick. Coming up with safe, dependable and cheap ways of storing it and moving it around is non-trivial as well.

[Jonty30]

Toyota is, that I know. Quite likely, everybody is investing in hydrogen, but it’s not close to ready for consumer use.

It’s likely where the future is, because it is everywhere.

[Paulie]

There are at least a few here on FR who insist this is impossible, regardless of the evidence to the contrary.

Hyundai certainly thinks it’s possible. And it looks to me like they’re putting their money where their mouth is as well.

Watch what people do; not what people say.

[Jonty30]

This is one area where solar power could pay for itself. As long as there is sun and water, you have a potentially unlimited means to producing hydrogen. It could be built literally anywhere.

[mountainlion]

I like gasoline form crud oil myself.

[Gen.Blather]

“Coming up with safe, dependable and cheap ways of storing it and moving it around is non-trivial as well.”

You need a big tank to make it useful as well. Nothing beats gas of diesel for a lot of power in a relatively small can.

[Red_Devil 232]

“Europe model, called ix35 Fuel Cell, can travel up to 594 kilometers (369 miles) while its U.S. model travels up to 265 miles”

I guess U.S. miles are longer than those in Europe?

[ckilmer]

I did not read how they were going to produice the Hydrogen but one method is to extract Hydrogen form natural gas and waste the rest which is mostly CO2.
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True.