Successful first test of Nordic Power's diesel fuel cell generator
- Publisher
- Elsevier Science
- Year
- 2011
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 67 KB
- Volume
- 2011
- Category
- Article
- ISSN
- 1464-2859
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✦ Synopsis
development of its next-generation hydrogen fuel cell vehicle, the Tucson ix Fuel Cell Electric Vehicle, and will begin testing later this year as it targets mass production in 2015. Hyundai says that the fuel cell system has been downsized by 20%, and there is a substantial improvement in fuel efficiency and driving range.
Hyundai's third-generation FCEV is equipped with a 100 kW PEM fuel cell system and two 700 bar (10 000 psi) hydrogen storage tanks, and can start up in ambient temperatures as low as -25°C (-13°F). The new SUV has a range of 650 km (400 miles), equivalent to a gasoline-powered car, and a gasoline equivalent fuel efficiency of 31 km per liter, a 15% improvement on the previous version.
The Korean automaker says that the overall volume of the fuel cell system is 20% less than the previous system, achieved through modularization of bulky parts in the system, including the fuel cell stack, balance-of-plant (BOP), inverter and high-voltage junction box.
Hyundai took part in the Learning Demonstration Program organized by the US Department of Energy between 2004 and 2009, and is a member of the California Fuel Cell Partnership [FCB, October 2008]. The company -and its sister company, Kia Motors -are among the world's leading automakers who have jointly committed to the development and market introduction of fuel cell electric vehicles by 2015 [FCB, October 2009].
Later this year, 48 of the new Tucson ix FCEVs will be part of a Domestic Fleet Program supported by the Korean government. Hyundai plans to make a limited number of the Tucson ix FCEVs in 2012, and begin mass production in 2015.