How big a role could hydrogen cars play in the future of mobility?
In Wales, a firm called Riversimple is developing a two-seater car which uses a hydrogen fuel cell. An engineering protoype of the car, which is called the Rasa, weighs 580 kilograms, according to the company. The average weight of a small car, such as aEach wheel of the Rasa hosts an electric motor, and it has clocked speeds of more than 60 miles per hour. Water is a by-product of the process used to power the car.
" hydrogen powered car is effectively an electric car, so you still have an electric motor and the car is still quiet," Nicolas Sergent, who works on design and engineering at Riversimple, told CNBC's Sustainable Energy. "But instead of running off a battery which stores the electricity chemically, it's running off a fuel cell, a hydrogen fuel cell," he added.
While there are benefits when it comes to hydrogen fuel cell vehicles, cost and a lack of charging infrastructure could potentially hamper widespread adoption."Refueling a hydrogen car requires much less behavior change than battery electric cars," Hugo Spowers said. "It's a very similar experience to filling a petrol car," he added.
"It takes three or four minutes and you drive away with a full tank of gas, which gives you the same sort of range as a petrol engine car would have," he went on to say.
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