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Title: Nissan unveils world’s first solid-oxide hydrogen fuel cell electric vehicle
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paultan.org
URL Source: http://paultan.org/2016/08/05/nissa ... solid-oxide-fuel-cell-vehicle/
Published: Aug 5, 2016
Author: Gerard Lye
Post Date: 2016-08-07 19:23:59 by Operation 40
Keywords: energy, green, hydrogen
Views: 1459
Comments: 13
Nissan has revealed the world’s first solid-oxide fuel cell (SOFC) vehicle that runs on bio-ethanol electric power. “The e-Bio Fuel-Cell offers eco-friendly transportation and creates opportunities for regional energy production, all the while supporting the existing infrastructure,” said Nissan president and CEO Carlos Ghosn. “In the future, the e-Bio Fuel-Cell will become even more user-friendly. Ethanol-blended water is easier and safer to handle than most other fuels. Without the need to create new infrastructure, it has great potential to drive market growth,” he added. The vehicle here is based on a Nissan e-NV200, and comes equipped with a 24 kWh battery and a hydrogen fuel cell. However, instead of filling the tanks with hydrogen, the car uses ethanol, which goes through a reformer in the SOFC system, to produce hydrogen for the fuel cell. The van is claimed to have a cruising range of about 600 km. Unlike hydrogen, ethanol can be readily distributed from available infrastructure as mentioned by Ghosn. Therefore, you can refill a SOFC vehicle at a regular fuel station that offers ethanol. The downside here is, reforming ethanol into hydrogen will produce a small amount of CO2. However, the company says the CO2 produced can be offset by the plants (corn, soy and sugar cane) that are used to produce ethanol, allowing for what Nissan calls a “carbon neutral cycle.” Of course, the CO2 output associated with the system doesn’t take into account the amount generated to produce ethanol...snip Read More: http://paultan.org/2016/08/05/nissan-unveils-worlds-first-solid-oxide-fuel-cell-vehicle/ 
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#11. To: Operation 40 (#0)
This is the stupidist way to make hydrogen ive ever read. Hydrogen fuel cells already exist and hydrogen on demand generators work just fine so there is no reason to use ethenol to get hyrdrogen but to maintain the petro monopoly.... smh
#13. To: Titorite2 (#11)
It's not necessarily intended as a final production prototype. It could be, and at least in part certainly is, one tech milestone on a longer road to further innovations.
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