Electric Or Fuel Cell Cars

The bev is starting to challenge fossil fuel cars and their fuel cell alternatives are getting nowhere.

Electric or fuel cell cars. During the vehicle design process the vehicle manufacturer defines the power of. But according to stephen ellis fuel cell vehicle manager at american honda fuel cell cars can hold their own. Like all electric vehicles fuel cell electric vehicles fcevs use electricity to power an electric motor. Instead it can be simply refueled in 3 to 5 minutes at a hydrogen station.

A fuel cell vehicle is a vehicle that uses a fuel cell to power an electric drive system. The common abbreviation is fcev short for fuel cell electric vehicle in contrast to a bev or battery electric vehicle. Put enough motor in a honda clarity and it could hit those 0 60 times also. Although it s an electric vehicle there is never a need to charge the car with a plug.

Hydrogen fuel cell cars are powered by an electric motor and are therefore classified as e cars. There are also hybrid vehicles meaning that they are fitted with a fuel cell and a battery or a fuel cell and an ultracapacitor for hicev see list of hydrogen internal combustion engine vehicles for a discussion of the advantages and disadvantages of fuel cell vehicles see fuel cell vehicle. Volkswagen recently released a quite interesting comparison of the battery electric bev and hydrogen fuel cell fcv path to zero emission mobility. A fuel cell vehicle fcv such as the clarity fuel cell is a long range all electric vehicle that uses a fuel cell stack to create electricity on demand.

The new toyota mirai a hydrogen fuel cell electric vehicle on display at the 2019 los.