Solar Fuel Cell Cars

There are a range of reasons why hydrogen fuel cell cars are still expensive.

Solar fuel cell cars.

The few models of fuel cell vehicles already available on the market cost around usd 80 000 for a mid or upper mid range vehicle. The battery pack in a typical solar car is sufficient to allow the car to go 250 miles 400 km without sun and allow the car to continuously travel at speeds of 60 mph 97 km h. Heavy duty fuel cell vehicles are electric vehicles with range fueling time equal to diesels today. That s almost twice as much as comparable fully electric or hybrid vehicles.

Solar hydrogen fuel cell vehicles at the low end of an estimated cost range deluchi 1992. We chose relatively optimistic base cases because pessimistic cases would not be very interesting. Hydrogen has the same benefits of electric vehicles as they use the same electric motors more horsepower instant torque zero emissions etc while eliminating many issues derived from battery electric vehicles long recharge times limited range cold start added. Bloom energy says it can now leverage existing cheap wind and solar electricity and a new solid oxide electrolyzer to produce hydrogen fuel that will be on par with gasoline fuel as far as costs.