Fuel Cell Electric Vehicle:The futuristic vehicle

Fuel Cell Electric Vehicle:The futuristic vehicle

A fuel cell vehicle is commonly known as '' fuel cell electric vehicle and its common short from is ''FCEV ''.In actual it  is an electric vehicle which is provided with fuel cell. There is no battery in it but however there may be a combination of battery or super capacitor to render power to its electric motor.The purpose of these fuel cell is to produce electricity in order to power the motor.It utilizes the two substances for this purpose one is hydrogen in compressed form and other is oxygen from air.Majority of the fuel cell vehicles are categorized as zero emission vehicles because these vehicles discharge only heat along with water.Similarly if we compare these fuel cell vehicles with the internal combustion engine vehicles ,these are centralize pollutants due to hydrogen production.More over this hydrogen is derived from natural gas which is reformed condition.It is also possible that pollutants may be generated due to transporting and storing of hydrogen.

The application of fuel cell carried out on different kind of vehicles foe instance fork lifter and other type of vehicle particularly where indoor application are required due to clean emissions of air needed as well as space application.Toyota is the first company which sold commercially generated hydrogen fuel cell automobiles and Hyundai leased it in 2015 but on limited basis.With the passage of time in Jun 2016 the Toyota Mirai  was available even for its respective retail sale price in different advance and developed countries like Japan,California ,the UK , Denmark ,Germany ,Belgium,and Norway.In addition to this aforesaid fuel cell are being used and tested in various other vehicles including buses,boats,motorcycles,and bicycles.Only in USA in the beginning of 2016 the hydrogen infrastructure was very limited and confined up to only 23 hydrogen fueling station for public vehicles.But on ward additional hydrogen stations are planned specially in California to meet the requirements of these public vehicles.Some critics and opponents of this plan are in doubt that it will be cost effective for relative vehicles and automobiles as compare to zero emission technologies.   

There are basically three parts of each fuel cell.They are an electrolyte,an anode and a cathode and as i told you earlier that hydrogen fuel cell  works like a battery.It generates electricity ,which further run electric motor.More over it is not required recharging nut instead of recharging it can be refilled with hydrogen from its respective hydrogen stations.There different kind of fuel cell as appended below

(1) Direct methanol fuel cell
(2) Polymer electrolyte membrane 
(3) phosphoric acid fuel cells
(4) Molten carbonate fuel cell
(5) Reformed methanol fuel cell     

If we go back in its history we come to know that former US president George Bush in 2003 for the first time proposed the Hydrogen fuel  initiative which is commonly referred as'' HFI ''.The basic purpose of this HFI was to to enhance and develop hydrogen fuel cell  and its respective infra structure technologies in order to increase introduction of the fuel cell vehicles purely on commercial basis. After 5 years in 2008 U.S contributed one billion dollars for the development of this project.In 2012 U.S Secretary of energy Steven Chu told that he had observed fuel  cell cars and found these cars more economically more practical and feasible due to lower natural gas prices and modification and reform technologies.In the same way California Energy Commission in 2013 approved 18.7 million dollars for hydrogen fuel station.Now all the government in advance countries particular in USA  are concentrating over this issue and technology on priority.