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The Hydrogen Fuel Cell could revolutionize the world. This ingenious technology, which creates electricity from the chemical reactions of hydrogen and oxygen has, in its 150-year history, passed many of the critical tests along the path from invention to innovation. Recent developments in fuel cell technology and concurrent developments within the energy and automotive industries have brought the world to brink of the fuel cell age and the hydrogen economy.

The authors reveal the “desperate delusion that alternative fuels can solve the ecological catastrophe that is the private car”. Corn-based ethanol produces more CO2 than oil-based petrol “if all the energy used in the growth phase is properly accounted for”. Corn-as-fuel also takes up five times more land than corn-as-food. Using hydrogen or electricity to power US cars would need more dirty coal as an energy source. Either that or an area as large as the state of Massachusetts for solar panels, or New York State for wind turbines, or 200 new nuclear energy plants. (Mugyenyi and Engler, 2010, p.106-113) “There is no such thing as a green car,” the authors conclude. “Unsustainable” would barely describe the car’s environmental failure if the rest of the world were to adopt US patterns of car ownership and driving behavior (Mugyenyi and Engler, 2010, p.114).

Imagine never being locked out of your disgusting gas-guzzling vehicle in sub-zero temperatures pumping your car full of toxic chemicals and then later emptying your bank account to pay for the environment killer ever again. This reality is near and approaching faster than ever before. Although, it is not completely beneficial. It is evident that at an international level, electric cars are needed. But, this is only one side of the story, despite common belief, electric vehicles are not always good for the environment. It is true that they will benefit bank accounts, however, the only way for electric cars to improve the environment is if they are powered by clean renewable energy.

Honda has already produced a hydrogen fuel cell concept car they claim is “overall 64% energy efficient”. To put this into perspective in the average gasoline combustion engine “only about 20 percent of the thermal-energy content of the gasoline is converted into mechanical work”, making it 20% energy efficient [5]. This new line of cars could bring about jobs in the automotive industry and all industries that branch from it. As of right now the commercial market for hydrogen gas produced from the use of fossil fuels is at about $100 billion. A majority of this hydrogen goes into producing fertilizers and petrochemicals [1]. All it would take is an inexpensive source of green hydrogen, such as the one recently discovered, to completely change this industry.Overall hydrogen has the ability to bring about jobs and continued advancements in every market and industry touched by it. This could be just about every industry when considering how important transportation and shipping are to the economy; hydrogen would give them an inexpensive fuel for transport. Hydrogen fuel could do this all the while solving our most important problem of finding a renewable energy source.

Recent years have shown an increasingly large need for a practical renewable energy source for such reasons as diminishing fossil fuels and increases in greenhouse gasses. Hydrogen appears to be a way out of this gasoline-dug hole, or at least, a way out in the future. Hydrogen fuel cell cars are being engineered as we speak as the technologies to refuel them cleanly are being proposed. Unfortunately, most of the technologies associated with hydrogen are still in the prototype/pre-production stages and require better enhancements before becoming mainstream. This paper assesses the practicality of hydrogen power in cars both now and in the future while explicating the actual process of how a

There are several solutions to digress from the modern polluting ways of the car, but one of the easiest and most efficient is the usage of hydrogen to power the insurgent Hare pods.

The use of hydrogen as a power source is already being implicated in day to day life they use it to power buses, cars, scooters, forklifts. NASA even uses it to power some of its space ships. NASA has been using Hydrogen in its liquid status to lift its rockets into space. The fuel cells power the shuttle’s electrical systems, producing a clean byproduct, water which the crew drinks. It is a lot cleaner then fossil fuels because it does not have the harmful eminences that fossil fuels have. Chevy has already produced a car that runs off hydrogen, the Equinox, the fuel cell car is an electric vehicle that converts hydrogen and oxygen into electricity which it uses to power the vehicle. A few big car companies, Ford, Mercedes, and Nissan, are pulling together to produce a hydrogen powered car that would only emit water by 2017. The use of hydrogen is still in the early steps of becoming the main source of power because people have such a heavy dependence on oil it hasn’t really gone out on a big stage to effect the whole world. It will soon though because

Recently in today's society we have been introduced to the option of buying electrical vehicles, with the promise of saving our environment by limiting the amount of CO2 emission into the Earth's atmosphere. Many people believe this one hundred percent emission free idea, but it isn’t necessarily true. Although these vehicles themselves do not emit any sort of gasses, we need to ask ourselves; Where are they made? How are they made? And where does the electricity to power them come from? This isn’t the first time America has had to choose between electric or gas powered vehicles. In 1900, 28% of the 4,192 cars produced in the United States were electric (Timeline: History of the Electric Car, 2009). Today, less than 1% of total car sells are electric (Biello, 2016). The problem has never been the cars themselves, it’s industrial America emitting greenhouse gasses into the atmosphere.

Ever since the invention of the wheel, man has never ceased the quest for innovating personal mobility. From the 19th century to the present, there have been tremendous development in industrial design and chemical engineering that have contributed to the present vehicles, particularly the cars. The Toyota Prius for instance, which “was developed and released in Japan in 1997, is the world’s first mass-produced hybrid car and was made available in other parts of the world by 2000” (Cox, 2017).

Now days due to population and technology improvement cars and automobiles is very important in their life but we use the cars and any other automobiles by petroleum fuel or gasoline but these are non renewable source of energy we use more than our need due to these there is loss of the petroleum source in the world to overcome these i researched the renewable source of energy fuels .In the world many renewable source of energy fuel is available like solar energy, wind energy ,etc but i researched different method is the by taking hydrogen from these energy and making these as a fuel for the cars. We can see the briefly of the research and making the it is sufficient to human beings or not.

Gasoline powered vehicles are on the decline. Hydrogen is on its way to remove gasoline as the world’s fuel. Hydrogen powered cars are rising in popularity for many reasons such as low emissions and efficiency, but there are major obstacles in the way. Hydrogen as a fuel is the change needed to save the world from global warming.

An arising problem in today’s world is the destruction of the ozone layer because of the emissions and harmful gases that vehicles are giving off. Forget ethanol or biodiesel. The next big thing in automotive fuel may very well be hydrogen. Automakers rapidly are closing in on making hydrogen fuel cell vehicles an everyday fact of life, with several test models set to debut over the next few years. Hydrogen fuel cells to power vehicles are desirable, experts say, because hydrogen is a renewable fuel that can be used to create electricity to run cars. A chemical reaction between oxygen and hydrogen produces the electric power, and when pure hydrogen is used, the only emission from the tailpipe is harmless water vapor.

All kinds of vehicle engines work with fuels produced from petroleum. However, petroleum stocks in the world are limited and expected to be exhausted in about 41 years. Limited energy sources warn of a potential lack of energy in the future. Depletion of fossil fuels and environmental considerations have led engineers and scientists to anticipate the need to develop a clean, renewable and sustainable energy system (yutsel et

The natural gas alternative aids in the contribution in reducing the United States reliance on foreign oil and has the potential to become a star if more resources are focused into this technology for consumer based vehicles. A company by the name of Air Liquide, recently stated that in collaboration with Toyota, an entirely integrated hydrogen fueling framework would be implemented in the United States (Fuel Cells Bulletin, 2014).Toyota is involved with the project due to the recent release of the Mirai model which runs on hydrogen. “Hydrogen has great potential to provide clean energy. Used in the fuel cell, hydrogen combines with oxygen from the air to produce electricity, with water as the only by-product” (Fuel Cells Bulletin, 2014). The Mirai is the turning point for the automotive sector according to Wardlaw. The vehicle had more than twenty years of research and development prior to its release. The author argues that the technology is here and ready for mass consumption, but that the only piece missing is the infrastructure (Wardlaw, 2015).

This report shows a comparison between hydrogen fuel cell plug-in hybrid vehicles (FCHEV) and battery (BEV) and hydrogen fuel cell (FCEV) electric vehicles. Comparing infrastructure and technology requirements along with the lifecycle cost of the drivetrain (the main components that generate power and deliver it to the road surface) over 100k miles taking fuel costs and capital costs into consideration.