At an unveiling ceremony at Honda’s research and development facility in Los Angeles, the automobile and motorcycle manufacturer presented its next-generation Solar Hydrogen Station prototype. The concept is designed as a single, integrated unit so that it can easily fit into your home garage. With an eight-hour overnight fill, the station produces 500g of hydrogen, which is enough to power a fuel cell electric vehicle for its typical daily commute (roughly 44km).
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Honda’s Solar Hydrogen Station for home use has been designed to give users a new, improved lifestyle with convenient, clean, energy-efficient and sustainable home refueling option. Unlike Honda’s previous solar hydrogen station system that required both an electrolyser and a separate compressor unit to create high pressure hydrogen, the new prototype is a single integrated unit. The earlier system’s was too big and very expensive, all it did was reduced system efficiency. Therefore, Honda engineers have replaced the inefficient compressor with a new high differential pressure electrolyser.
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The new Solar Hydrogen Station includes 48-panel, 6kW solar array, in addition to the thin film solar cells composed of copper, indium, gallium and selenium are emit less CO2 as compared to conventional solar cells. This ingenious creation is the world’s most compact system and is capable of improving system efficiency by more than 25 percent compared to the previous system. This initiative will take Honda a step closer to a fuel cell world.
Via: CarAdvice
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