Fuel Cell Powered Cars
Although hydrogen cars offer a great opportunity for using and creating energy,
most types of fuel cell can only create 1 volt of electricity, at the most. This
amount is hardly enough to even power a small device, let alone something as
demanding and energy-hungry as the car. In order to build up the amount of
energy created, it is necessary to make a whole stack of hydrogen fuel cells,
which can power laptops, or even homes. To illustrate the demands on the
hydrogen fuel cell, the average gas powered car consumes around 50 to 120
kilowatts of electricity. These demands put a serious limitation on the
practicality of producing cars powered by hydrogen fuel technology.
In order to create the perfect hydrogen car, developers are looking at two
problematical areas, cost and endurance. The size of the fuel cells needed to
power most cars means that at the moment, hydrogen cars are too expensive to be
sold to the general public, and only a few prototypes have been made by most car
makers. The future of hydrogen cars also requires that the components of the
fuel cell be made more durable, in order to survive the wear and tear of car
use, as well as possible impacts.
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