Honda demos FCX Concept with ‘V Flow’ stack

• Publisher: Elsevier Science
• Year: 2006
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 149 KB
• Volume: 2006
• Category: Article
• ISSN: 1464-2859
• DOI: 10.1016/s1464-2859(06)71174-9

✦ Synopsis

H onda has unveiled its latest FCX Concept fuel cell car, which features a newly developed compact, highefficiency Honda FC Stack that offers significant improvements in power output and environmental performance.

Limited marketing of a totally new FCV based on this low-floor, low-riding, short-nose concept model will begin in 2008 in Japan and the US.

The FCX Concept is equipped with a 'V Flow' fuel cell platform consisting of a compact, high-efficiency stack arranged in an innovative center-tunnel layout. This has led to the creation of an elegant, low-riding sedan that would have been difficult to achieve in a conventional FCV. The new stack is 20% smaller and 30% lighter than the current FCX FC Stack, yet its power output is 14 kW higher. The drive motor is positioned coaxially with the gearbox for a more