Sequel hydrogen fuel cell vehicles
The world’s longest continued driving mileage hydrogen fuel cell vehicles Sequel Shanghai Auto Show debut
From the Shanghai International Auto Show held at the time of the month, General Motors could not wait to Chinese companies in Shanghai, announced the results of its latest R & D – Sequel hydrogen fuel cell vehicles will be unveiled this year’s auto show. It was just the beginning of the year the car show in North America show that the first shock of global industry and this show will be known as “the highest scientific and technological content of the show car.”
It is understood, Sequel of a new generation of fuel cell system to the previous generation fuel cell device components to be simplified, so that significantly reduce manufacturing costs, the maximum power increased by about 25%. Sequel to benefit from the outstanding performance of hydrogen storage capacity increases, the previous GM R & D and will be carried out in Shanghai this year, running the model “HydroGen III” as compared to full storage pressure doubled. GM China, said Chen, vice president, Sequel is a General Motors fuel cell vehicles to the commercial production of the target as an important step.
In fact, the general hope that by showing such strength to win the Government’s concern and support for the next decade the development of GM in China and lay a good foundation. China has become the global status of GM and Toyota run an important market. Toyota has taken the lead in the Prius hybrid sedan in China to get the case of production, fuel cell cars have become common in China under a key point of development, after all, the need for two sets of hybrid engines and the high cost compared to fuel cell vehicle the price of the plan in general is fully competitive, and China is the world’s most likely a hydrogen fuel cell vehicle development areas, and to the general push for mass production of fuel cell vehicles in 2010, China will become a global car demand the greatest place to load hp pavilion zv5000 battery. Then, in environmental protection and energy saving advantages are the prospects for fuel cell vehicles are limitless.
However, although the idea of better, but the competition is not too easy to imagine. Although common at all costs this year will be “HydroGen III” to get to Shanghai model run, but the general partners – SAIC Group and Tongji University developed “Beyond III” will have 10 cars at the end of the road in demonstration run. It can be said that not only faced with common transnational auto giant Toyota’s step-by-step pressure, is also facing domestic automobile companies and R & D challenges.
Nevertheless, it is hardly surprising that GM spent the past two years been great efforts to promote its own hydrogen fuel cell vehicles in the achievements. The industry believes that, as the hydrogen fuel cell vehicle is a new product, so there is not a mature domestic technical standards, and domestic and foreign enterprises to the development of these standards in the relevant departments can make their voices heard, but also to maximize the safeguarding their own interests. It is learned that the three countries in Japan and the United States car companies have hybrid vehicles on the domestic technical standards in a competition.
In that case, GM would like the issue of whether what kind of sound? GM hydrogen fuel production car How far the road? A few days ago, our reporter had an interview with GM’s design and technical integration of the Department Director and Project Director of Se-quel Dr..
As safe with the traditional car
Oriental Morning Post: As the hydrogen is the fuel, people will often linked with the explosion, especially in a moving vehicle will inevitably encounter in the course of severe impact, then how security Sequel?
Chris: security is the most common issues to consider, at least as safe and conventional diesel, in fact, we designed the safety of hydrogen storage tank fuel tank than the traditional strong many times also. We are the standards adopted by national standards than we are even more stringent 20%. The test includes the hydrogen storage tank set on fire in burn, fall down from the high-altitude, fast cut, shooting a gun, the conclusion of these tests: You can use in different countries.
Oriental Morning Post: hydrogen fuel cell vehicle hydrogen how to check system?
Chris: There are many sources of hydrogen, such as natural gas, solar energy, wind energy, nuclear energy.
Oriental Morning Post: GM believes that the most suitable for the development of China’s energy which car?
Chris: China must be more than one kinds of energy sources and countries acer lcbtp03003 battery,.
Hybrid is only a transitional
Oriental Morning Post: At present, many manufacturers have committed to the promotion of hybrid, may I ask what the current GM hybrid products?
Chris: At present, the major general for the development of hybrid truck, there are currently more than 300 in Seattle buses running in the model, hybrid Chevrolet pickup sales in the United States. However, due to use two sets of hybrid engines, so the high cost of foreign governments for environmental considerations to the purchaser will normally be a certain amount of subsidy and the manufacturer. For example, in the United States, consumers purchase a hybrid can get 30% tax rebate equivalent to 1200 U.S. dollars. GM is expected by 2007 will launch a hybrid car.
Oriental Morning Post: Toyota has decided to domestic production of hybrid cars, GM will introduce hybrids in China do?
Chris: As to when the domestic launch of hybrid cars, not in accordance with common practice will not be clear before the public. But the need to point out that hybrids still need oil and can not fundamentally solve the energy and environmental protection issues, can only be described as an interim measure.
5 years after the price of 20,000 U.S. dollars
Oriental Morning Post: GM in 2010 is expected to enable volume production of hydrogen fuel cell vehicles, and diesel prices as the present, I do not know what the current stage of development?
Chris: GM’s ultimate goal is the cost per kilowatt of power is 50 U.S. dollars, a better car is the power of 100 kilowatts. At present, the traditional diesel power cost per kilowatt is 30 ~ 70 U.S. dollars. Under normal circumstances, power and transmission prices account for vehicle 1 / 4, which is our goal of hydrogen fuel cell vehicle power and transmission prices around 5000 U.S. dollars, the price of the entire vehicle in about 20,000 U.S. dollars, with the current traditional internal combustion engine basically the same price. However, the cost is still expensive, we challenge is the cost and increase battery durability and reliability. Our goal of fuel cell life span is 5500 hours, from a technical rather than talk about the challenges, the key is to reduce costs and simplify the design.
Oriental Morning Post: hydrogen fuel cell vehicles to reduce the cost of the current problems in which the largest?
Chris: in terms of specific problems, first of all, the current production of fuel cell cars are all manual, not the assembly line production. Such as fuel cells through artificial pieces are connected together. However, artificial production was not the main problem, another problem is that hydrogen pumps, compressors to reduce the costs of the sources of carbon fiber acer travelmate 3000 battery, the source of proton exchange mode, but proton exchange mode when not in small batch production will be down, to reach the million, 10 million of production costs can be decreased.
“China made” uncertain
Oriental Morning Post: GM used to think that China is the United States outside California are most likely to develop hydrogen fuel cell area, then the GM hydrogen fuel cell vehicles will get the Chinese to produce it?
Chris: Over the past two years China’s oil consumption growth is mostly due to motor vehicles, therefore, the issue of energy saving and environmental protection of motor vehicles have been taken seriously, the new auto industry policy has been clearly put forward to encourage the development of energy saving and environmental protection vehicles. Petrol filling stations in China are also popular, but not abroad, and therefore the promotion of hydrogen energy vehicles are relatively easy. However, despite the fact that China is the most likely development of hydrogen fuel cell vehicles, but GM’s hydrogen fuel cell vehicles is still to get the Chinese to produce depends on the use of the cost of hydrogen production, as well as the Government, energy suppliers, automobile companies, zero parts suppliers and other factors.