By the mid-2020s, it will begin selling 2,000 units of its fuel cell system to outside organizations per year.
Japanese car company Honda has announced that it will not only continue to electrify its products, but will also be proactive in increasing the use of hydrogen as an energy vector and expanding its activities in this element.
With the goal of zeroing the environmental impact of its products and their lifecycles, including its business activities, Honda has focused on three areas as the “pillars” of its initiatives:
“carbon neutrality”, “clean energy” and “resource reuse”. In its initiatives, Honda, in addition to electricity, emphasizes hydrogen because of its high potential as an energy carrier.
Since 2013, Honda has been working with GM to co-develop a next-generation fuel cell system. Immediately, starting in 2024, it will launch in North America and Japan a model of FCEV equipped with the next generation fuel cell system.
Cost and sustainability have been the biggest challenges in expanding the use of fuel cell systems. According to the company, the next generation fuel cell system
will reduce your costs by up to a third than the one equipped with the Honda Clarity Fuel Cell 2019. This has been achieved through several measures, including the application of innovative electrode materials, an advanced cell sealing structure, the simplification of the supporting equipment (“balancing the plant”) and the improvement of the productivity. In addition, the durability of the system has been doubled through the use of corrosion-resistant materials and the controlled suppression of wear. In addition, the resistance to low temperatures has been significantly improved.
Honda has also initiated fundamental research into future fuel cell technologies with the aim of cutting costs in half and doubling sustainability over
the fuel cell system developed in collaboration with GM. Thanks to these advances, co-developed with GM, and looking to the future, this is expected to be achieved around 2030, when the use of fuel cells is expected to become popular. Honda is aiming to achieve these levels of usability and total cost, enabling the fuel cell system to be comparable to conventional diesel engines.
Honda conducts an advanced program of research and development of the technologies
hydrogen based considering its use in space, another area of great potential. In addition to water and food, man needs oxygen and hydrogen as fuel and electricity for his space activity.
In order to develop sustainable activities in space, it is necessary to minimize the need to replenish these resources from Earth. One of the solutions to get these elements in the room without needing them
a resupply from Earth is to create a circular renewable energy system that combines a high differential pressure water electrolysis system, capable of producing oxygen and hydrogen using solar energy to electrolyze water, and a fuel cell system that generates electricity and water from oxygen and hydrogen.
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start selling the modules with the next-generation fuel cell system in the mid-2020s. In this sense, it expects sales of 2,000 units per year initially, aiming to gradually expand these figures to 60,000 units by 2030 and several hundred thousand units per year year in the second half of the 2030s.
Honda plans to begin selling the new FCEV model in North America and Japan in 2024. This model will be based on the CR-V introduced in North America last year and will be equipped with the next generation fuel cell system.
before it ends
the next fiscal year (March 31, 2024)In Japan, Honda plans to begin road testing with a prototype heavy-duty truck equipped with a fuel cell system developed in partnership with Isuzu Motors Limited.
In addition, in China’s Hubei province, Honda began testing commercial trucks equipped with the next-generation fuel cell system in January in partnership with Dongfeng Motor Group Co., Ltd.
It will also apply its system
fuel cellsin the first place to excavators and shovels, a large segment in the market for construction equipment, with the aim of contributing to the CO2 neutrality of construction equipment.
Source: La Verdad
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