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Future Car
Some day we may be driving cars fueled by hydrogen. The hydrogen can be stored as a compressed gas, in liquid form, as a metal hydride, or by a chemical hydriding method. These cars may have an internal combustion engine, a fuel cell, or a combination of both. Some automobile manufacturers are targeting a pure fuel cell vehicle, while others are considering using fuel cells for auxiliary power and fueling internal combustion engines with hydrogen. In any case, the future of automobiles can be vastly different depending on the technological advancements of hydrogen storage and energy conversion. ![]() Sandia and General Motors Corp. have launched a partnership to design and test an advanced method for storing hydrogen based on metal hydrides. The goal of the four-year, $10 million program is to develop a pre-prototype solid-state hydrogen storage tank using sodium aluminum hydride that would store more hydrogen onboard a fuel cell vehicle than current conventional hydrogen storage methods. They also hope to create a tank design that could be adaptable to any type of solid-state hydrogen storage. Contact: Chris Moen cmoen@sandia.gov (925) 294-3709 |
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