Last week, Honda, Toyota, Nissan and Hyundai signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with organisations from the Nordic countries to support the market introduction of fuel cell electric vehicles (FCEVs) and hydrogen refuelling infrastructure between 2014 and 2017.
Besides the carmakers, the signing organisations wre hydrogen infrastructure companies HyOP AS (Norway); H2 Logic A/S (Denmark); Copenhagen Hydrogen Network A/S (Denmark) and Nordic NGOs HyNor Norway; Hydrogen Sweden; Icelandic New Energy; Hydrogen Link Denmark Association and Scandinavian Hydrogen Highway Partnership (SHHP).
This collaboration follows last month’s announcement by Honda CEO Takanobu Ito of the company’s development of an all-new FCEV for Japan, USA and Europe, to be launched from 2015. It also comes off the back of a month-long and high profile Europe Hydrogen Vehicle Road Tour, organised by H2 Moves Scandanavia. The tour had an event at the UK’s first public-access hydrogen refuelling station based at Honda’s Swindon base.
“In 2002 Honda became the world’s first carmaker to put a fuel cell car on the road with regular customers, delivering the Honda FCX Clarity to fleet users in the United States and Japan. We want to continue to lead the way for fuel cell technology across the world including Europe. This MoU signifies that commitment,” said Ken Kier, Executive VP of Honda Motor Europe.
Hyundai also has such a car, the ix35 FCEV, which has fuel cell tech in a Tucson body. Click here to read more on that.
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Malaysia,
Bila lagi nak sign MoU and bring this tech here? Hybrid(petrol+electric) and electric cars ARE solutions but they are not THE future! I’m rooting for a greener Malaysia!
And you think H2 is the future?
Where do you think H2 come from? 99% of the H2 worldwide is made of natural gas, only 1% is made by electrolysis (electric current + water).
Even electrolysis will also require fossil fuels burning for the electric generation
It’s being worked on
http://www.caltech.edu/article/13521
You mean “greener” or “cheaper” car? As a Malaysian.
:)
They engineer inventor must think out something look like the movie “Back To The Future..” using converted rubbish to run the car..haha. Or using Fuel Cell such as used in Terminator. 1 piece of Fuel Cell can last for decade power generation. Or use in Ironman.
Then u better use nuclear power….
Why stop at Back To The Future and Iron Man movies, lets go all the way to Star Trek where people travel using transporter
From your living room: “Energize!”
A few sec later, you already in LA :)
(Now where can we find dilithium crystals to provide unlimited energy)
I may not be an engineer, but we have scientists and engineer in Malaysia that can think of a way to harvest H2 from the abundance of natural resources.
Which is why, im rooting for the tech to be brought in, so that our researchers and brilliant minds can think of a way to make it more efficient and maybe make it cheap.
Who knows, maybe they might discover another alternative other than H2. Sticky notes was an experiment that went wrong, but 3M are selling millions and millions of those world wide.
Since we don’t have a playboy billionaire philanthropist here in Malaysia to develop an Arc Reactor, FCEV is the nearest thing that we can relate to and can be considered to be THE future.
Even if temporarily we have to harvest H2 from natural gas, isn’t that still cheaper than petroleum? Agreeing to what Bujang Lapuk said, Car of tomorrow should not be far off from the car of today in terms of refueling/recharge time and its range, which HONDA have achieved with its FC-X. Though not exactly, but roughly they are on the right track.
something to share..hahahah..LOL
The Washington Post asked in November 2009, “But why would you want to store energy in the form of hydrogen and then use that hydrogen to produce electricity for a motor, when electrical energy is already waiting to be sucked out of sockets all over America and stored in auto batteries…?” The paper concluded that commercializing hydrogen cars is “stupendously difficult and probably pointless. That’s why, for the foreseeable future, the hydrogen car will remain a tailpipe dream”.LOL !!!
Yes, but how many times do you want to stop and recharge your car for long distance driving?
So far, the only hydrogen fuel cell car commercially available on the road today is Honda FC-X clarity (pictured in this post). But, not for sale though, for lease only. And only available at Southern California. For $600/month and three years, you can drive it as if you own it.
The car of the future, whatever it runs on, has to be exactly like the car of today. It can’t take too long (in my view, 15 minutes tops) to be fully charged, and has to have a range equivalent to the cars of today.
Take away any of these, and unless the shortcomings are rectified, it’s immediately apparent that it isn’t the “car of the future”.
I think they are trying this out because it has the convenience of refueling via pump and take minutes rather than hours with batteries.
It’s either you recharge at home / hotel / stations for hours with battery driven cars OR the same old refuel method with hydrogen instead of our RON 95/97.
When you are running a long distance journey, would you prefer to spend a few minutes refueling hydrogen or a few hours recharging batteries in the station?
And with hydrogen, the big fuel companies can stay relevant switching to providing hydrogen instead of petrol/diesel. Do you think Shell, Petronas gonna just stand aside and let electric cars take over for good? When they start providing hydrogen in their stations everywhere, will you buy a Honda FCX Clarity or charge your car for hours each day and worry about the aging battery?
correct..because of the laziness in your DNA, costs of everything is higher. two energy transformation needed to reach the vehicle with hydrogen while only 1 energy transformation if using EV.
bcoz of your laziness but hoping for luxury..end up with bribery. a matter of sharing the chain of events.
most malaysian have more than 1 car. EV in the next 10 years will be for 2nd car. it will not replace the ICE immediately. U still need ICE for long journeys and outstations. understand?
I supports EV for 2nd car bcoz im burning hole in my wallet just paying for petrol. Unless you have no IQ on wise money spending.
I prefer EV… don’t have to spend money on gas is happy a thing for me…and I’m working with TNB :)
that awkward moment when all the manufacturers are asians
This is the future, not Hybrids or EV.