Kia Buzz blog looks at a fuel cell future
Kia Motors recently launched a company blog and the latest installment is penned by Kyehwan Roh, the Assistant Manager of Kia's Environmental Management Team. Kia developed their first electric vehicle, a lead acid battery-powered van, back in 1986 and since then has done work on hybrid and fuel cell vehicles. A fuel cell-powered Sportage CUV is currently part of a US Department of Energy test fleet.
Roh goes on to discuss Kia's latest second-generation fuel cell and a new chassis to carry it. The 112 in wheelbase platform is designed to carry an SUV or crossover body and looks much like the one in the Hyundai i-Blue concept that was shown at the Frankfurt Motor Show. Given the almost identical specs that are given for the two vehicles it seems probable that they are using much of the same hardware. The main differences seem to be the addition of the rear hub motors and super-capacitors for capturing energy from regenerative braking. Both vehicles feature a 100kW fuel cell stack and claimed 375 mile range.
[Source: Kia Buzz]
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charles lacuna 11:45PM (7/03/2008)
Electric vehicles has been around for several years now. I think it must have come first than the hybrid cars.
The first electric vehicles were direct conversion from cars fitted with electric motors and a dozen of batteries. That was the first appearance of EV's that eventually lost popularity
coz of crude design and the inconvenience of long charging hours.
But with the introduction of fuel cells EV's got a new life and has a promising future to become the main choice in urban transport.
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A.Brien 10:39PM (9/22/2007)
375 miles range is pretty good range and a refueling in a few minutes is way better then batteries with 150 miles range and 6 hours recharge time.
Someone has to invent a way to produce hydrogen at a refueling station. This is the thing hiding the commercialisation of hydrogen cars, if not, we will never have hydrogen cars for sale.
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Mikael Johansson 3:49AM (9/23/2007)
Electric car or fuel cell car?
Which car has the best potential to be mass produced to the lowest cost?
Which car has the best potential to give the society the lowest cost for fuel infrastructure?
Which car has the best potential to give the best energy effiency?
The electric car has, naturally.
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A.Brien 9:02AM (9/23/2007)
O.k . So why there is none on the market ? it's simple to build. you can run with it to work daily.
there have been some like the ev1 on the market in the past but they dissapeer. Is it a conspiracy from goverment and petrol industry?
I don't oppose battery cars, it's just that i prefer hydrogen cars.
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MichaelJones 6:57AM (1/18/2008)
Hey this is the idea, go for a longer model so I can chauffer everyone to and from work on a shift, only need about 20 vehicles and the next shift can meet me at my home and drive their shift workers as other drivers can get their switched vehicle from one of the shift workers riding in another car loads home and bring it back for the next day so I can drive it again. This way 20 cars with 10 people each results in 200 employees on a shift per division, thats like four divisions that works each day to produce 20 more vehicles each and only 800 people using a hybrid instead of conventional motor vehicle, saves lots of fuel and it can be recharged at the plant. Ready set go KIA. Meanwhile I'll design the underwater city for the future at the plant with the design team and we will be looking at its interior in five years time for a test run of the KIA Monorail Pressurized System. See get it going with water pressure nozzles and keep it balanced using pressure and stop it using water pressure so its using water pressure instead of electricity and we won't need to make so many underwater power generators (None Nuclear).
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