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Published August 29, 2013 08:49 AM
Hydrogen Fuel May Have a Bright Future, According to BMW
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Electric vehicles are showing strong progress throughout the world
These vehicles have been winning support from governments and consumers alike, with consumers favoring these vehicles because of the fuel savings they represent. Many of the world's most prominent automakers that are interested in clean transpiration have devoted their efforts to developing conventional battery-electric vehicles. Germany automaker BMW is one such company. BMW has become a vocal advocate of clean transpiration and has recently launched its new electric vehicle, called the BMW i3. The automaker's interest is not restricted to battery-electrics, however, as BMW sees a promising future in hydrogen fuel.
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The auto industry has become enamored with hydrogen fuel
Most of the world's major automakers, including Toyota, Honda, Hyundai, Daimler, and General Motors, are working to develop some form of hydrogen-powered vehicle. These vehicles are, essentially, electric as the fuel cells they are equipped with are used to generate the electrical power that these vehicles use. The benefit that fuel cells have over conventional lithium-ion batteries lies in their performance, durability, and ability to operate for prolonged periods of time. Fuel cell-equipped vehicles have shown performance that is on par with conventional vehicles that rely entirely on fossil-fuels.
The benefits of hydrogen fuel are not lost on BMW, though the automaker is currently working to establish a powerful presence in the electric vehicle market. BMW CEO Norbert Reithofer believes that hydrogen fuel will have a significant role to play in the future of transportation. Hydrogen produces no emissions when it is used to generate electrical power, making this form of fuel quite appealing to automakers that are feeling pressure coming from the world's governments. Much of this pressure has to do with the adoption of aggressive emissions reduction policies. These policies are giving automakers an impossible to ignore incentive to focus on developing emissions-free vehicles and many automakers have opted to embrace hydrogen fuel for this purpose.
BMW may see a bright future ahead in the field of hydrogen fuel, but that does not mean that hydrogen is problem-free. Fuel cells are notoriously expensive energy systems, largely due to their use of platinum. The high cost of these fuel cells is expected to make hydrogen-powered vehicles quite expensive as well. Moreover, conventional hydrogen fuel production methods rely heavily on fossil-fuels, which reduces the environmentally friendly pedigree of hydrogen somewhat. Automakers are well aware of these issues, of course, and many have taken steps to resolve the problems that exist with fuel cell technology.
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By ROB DAVIES
PUBLISHED: 00:03 GMT, 4 September 2013 | UPDATED: 10:22 GMT, 4 September 2013
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If you want to be at the cutting edge of technology, you may as well look the part. At Intelligent Energy, on the campus of Loughborough University, they’re certainly keeping up appearances.
The laboratory ticks all the cliché boxes. Arrays of red and green lights wink on and off, while a Jackson Pollock-esque melange of wires and pipes criss-crosses the room, ferrying gases and liquids with reassuring whirrs and hisses. Rows of computer monitors feed clusters of figures and graphs back to white lab-coated boffins.
It’s exactly the environment you would expect at a company that has spent two decades developing technology which could soon be as ubiquitous as the battery or the internal combustion engine.
Green machines: Intelligent Energy's fuel cells turn hydrogen into reliable power with zero emissions.
Green machines: Intelligent Energy's fuel cells turn hydrogen into reliable power with zero emissions.
Fuel cells - the green technology that is 150 years old
Intelligent Energy makes fuel cells, a 150-year-old invention only now finding its way into widespread application. The technology is complex but IE’s fuel cells turn hydrogen into a reliable source of power with zero emissions.
Early fuel cells were built in the 19th century, while NASA used them extensively in its space exploration of the 1960s. IE has spent years honing them into something small and inexpensive enough to be used worldwide.
It has also solved the problem of fuel cells failing to work in the cold – IE’s have been tested at -40C – and built a unique cooling system to prevent cells burning out.
Its engineers have amassed an intellectual property library, with 550 patents granted or pending.
These advances have captured the attention of firms such as automotive giant Suzuki, aerospace stalwarts Airbus and Boeing and the London Taxi Company.
IE is already developing the fuel cell-powered Suzuki Burgman scooter with the Japanese firm and production is expected to begin around 2015. The Loughborough campus also boasts a fuel cell-powered black cab, made to the rigorous specifications demanded of a Hackney Carriage.
What these impressive fuel cell vehicles lack is a network of hydrogen filling stations.
But Germany and Japan are already building their own, while the government’s UKH2 Mobility programme found that it would cost the UK just £400m to catch up.
Fuel-cell vehicles will only ever provide part of the solution to vehicle emissions, admits chief executive Henri Winand. But he thinks the automotive industry could still prove a huge money-spinner for IE, which turned its first profit last year, at £7.8m after tax.
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It's not just about cars, fuel cells deliver a steady power source
IE’s bread and butter is stationary power, selling fuel cells in countries where a steady power source is by no means a given. When India suffered power blackouts last July, some 600m people were plunged into darkness.
They turned to smoky and expensive diesel generators, which guzzle 2bn litres of diesel a year on the subcontinent alone. Fuel cells, by contrast, run quietly and don’t produce harmful emissions.
Demand, particularly from India’s fast-growing and energy-hungry telecoms industry, has been strong. But the future of this technology may lie much closer to home, or rather, in the house itself.
IE already has a partnership with power provider SSE, in anticipation of the energy crisis that could hit Britain in the coming years.
Should we start to suffer ‘brownouts’ – where the energy supply is reduced – a device using an IE fuel cell will kick in to convert a natural gas supply to electricity.
And they could even stop you endlessly charging your phone
Out of the dark: Fuel cell technology could help mobile phones avoid running out of juice.
Out of the dark: Fuel cell technology could help mobile phones avoid running out of juice.
Before long, the fuel cell could even be an integral part of man’s new best friend, the smartphone.
IE recently secured a patent for a small fuel cell that can be inserted into a mobile phone charger –essential when the user has no access to power or the power supply fails, as it does often in emerging markets.
One would simply plug the charger into a small device containing hydrogen fuel, replacing the failed power supply. IE is thought to be just weeks away from unveiling this invention and has also talked to mobile phone firms about putting small fuel cells directly into phones.
This could put an end to the days of having to charge a smartphone at least once a day.
Winand believes it might be possible to charge up with a fuel cell at the beginning of the week and not worry about it again until days later. That would be a sea change in a multi-billion-dollar market, one that IE can lead if it gets there ahead of competitors.
For now, the firm continues to export its technology to the world, showcasing the best of British innovation. But the familiar narrative with intellectual property companies is that they are bought by an overseas giant, draining the knowledge economy dry.
Winand won’t hint at whether he would look to float IE or consider selling to a larger predator.
‘Of course our shareholders would expect an exit at some point,’ he admits with a wry grin.
Until then, IE’s attention will be not on the boardroom, but on the laboratory where it belongs.
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geht's wieder aufwärts ... - mal sehen wie lange ? - interessant ist ja, das es auch wie damals vor einigen wochen, immer in max +10% Schritten aufwärts geht, nie darüber ... - hat jemand eine Ahnung ? - weshalb ? - oder werden Schritte über 10% eher publiziert an den Börsen, als darunter ? - Ist es eine magische Grenze ?