FCEV / Hydrogen Fuel Cell vehicle thread

[sonatine]

lets get a conversation going about this shit and focus on some emerging players, yes yes?

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[408]

Its already been invented the guy who designed the water powered car was killed years ago his theories float around the internet I guess he wouldn't sell big oil his patent and was knocked off for it. I recall the process involving ceramic coating your engine block due to ridiculously high Temps and the process costing 10k but if done properly you could run a car with water from your faucet. In modern times I believe formula 1 cars employ the ceramic coating process but the issue becomes combustion solid hydrogen which I believe produces tons of heat and may explode unexpectedly. People mess with concepts similar all the time like you can make a mini cutting torch harvesting hydrogen ions out of tap water and it uses a car battery I think to power the process but I'm not 100%. If you are good at googling the water power car guy had instructions on how to do it but they are hard to find. The idea is certainly possible but making the process to build cars that do this I think its too expensive to be practical. The hydrogen ideally would be a solid and i think that's tough to work with. Pretty sure water doesn't give enough hydrogen gas to get you anywhere. And solid hydrogen like I said is hard to work with

[sonatine]

wild stuff but i dont see any real actionable financial data there so please suit up and report back with:

- what are the essential technical resources for a FCEV engine
- who manufactures them

[408]

Development of FCEV tech is dead in the water mostly due to the rising popularity of battery electric vehicles.

"The Honda Clarity Fuel Cell was produced from 2016 to 2021.^[30][31] The 2017 Clarity had the highest combined and city fuel economy ratings among all hydrogen fuel cell cars rated by the EPA that year, with a combined city/highway rating of 67 miles per gallon gasoline equivalent (MPGe), and 68 MPGe in city driving.^[32] In 2019, Katsushi Inoue, the president of Honda Europe, stated, "Our focus is on hybrid and electric vehicles now. Maybe hydrogen fuel cell cars will come, but that’s a technology for the next era."^[33]

By 2017, Daimler phased out its FCEV development, citing declining battery costs and increasing range of EVs,^[34] and most of the automobile companies developing hydrogen cars had switched their focus to battery electric vehicles.^[35]"


https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fuel_cell_vehicle

[sonatine]

goddamnit you were given a simple assignment. who is manufacturing the essential unique components that handle the processing / conversion of hydrogen fuel.

if we gave a shit about sentiment we would be asking this question after the time to position ourselves.

get your shit together or youre fired and im hiring tyde to do my technical research.