The Next Step for the Hydrogen Fuel Cell
The hydrogen fuel cell.
You ve been hearing about it for years. In fact, I bet you can t remember a time when this little-understood technology wasn t being talked about.
It goes back further than you think.
Hydrogen fuel cells were the primary power source for NASA s legendary Apollo moon missions more than half a century ago.
That s a small but very telling indicator of just how reliable the technology is. Sadly, 50-some years later, we ve yet to see any mass adoption of the power source for the consumer market.
The reason is simple: Hydrogen isn t cheap to produce, store, or transport.
by Ronan Glon (AutoBlog/Yahoo!)Karma Automotive has focused on developing plug-in hybrid and electric cars since it was born from the ashes of Fisker in 2014. It’s still planning on releasing an electric sedan named GSe-6, but it announced that it’s in the early stages of designing a powertrain that will allow it to create a vehicle powered by the hydrogen they produce.
This technology sounds complicated, and it’s certainly not a walk in the park, but it’s simpler than embedding an oil refinery into a premium compact crossover. Karma joined forces with Denmark-based Blue World Technologies in a bid to make it a reality. In a nutshell, the system is built around a methanol fuel cell that can be filled about as quickly as a standard gasoline tank. The chemical then goes through a methanol reformer that turns it into hydrogen, which is subsequently used to generate the electricity that turns the car’s wheels.
February 3rd, 2021
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Karma is working on something different from its normal EVs hydrogen cars that use methane as a base fuel,
Autoblog has reported. Karma is teaming with Denmark’s Blue World Technologies on a methanol fuel cell that reforms methanol into hydrogen, which in turn powers a fuel cell with all that happening onboard the vehicle.
The companies didn’t say much about how the technology would work or what emissions it would produce, but fuel cells that convert methanol to hydrogen are called reformed methanol fuel cells. The idea is to install one in Karma’s upcoming GSe-6 electric vehicle by the end of 2021 for testing in the US and Denmark. If that goes to plan, Karma might eventually produce methanol fuel-cell cars.
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AALBORG, Denmark and IRVINE, California, USA (Feb. 2, 2021) – Blue World Technologies today announced that we have agreed to collaborate with Karma Automotive to explore the viability of a fuel cell system to provide primary propulsion power for a variety of future passenger and light commercial vehicles. Fuel cells enable fast refueling and extremely long driving ranges, and with zero harmful emissions provide a green alternative to the internal combustion engine.
Blue World Technology’s fuel cell system will be integrated with Karma Automotive’s electric vehicle architecture and piloted in GS-6 development vehicles for evaluation purposes. Testing and validation will take place in the United States and Denmark over the next few months.
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