Are hydrogen cars the future? BMW iX5 Hydrogen fuel-cell electric vehicle (FCEV) preview
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- Опубліковано 21 лип 2024
- Hydrogen fuel-cell electric vehicles (FCEVs) might not be as front of mind as battery-electric vehicles (BEV) or hybrid vehicles - be they full (HEV) or plug-in (PHEV) - but they do have a significant role to play in the automotive industry's transition away from fossil fuels, according to certain brands.
One such brand is BMW, which like Toyota and Hyundai, has produced FCEVs to test out their real-world feasibility ahead of potential mass production in the future. The German brand's latest FCEV is the iX5 Hydrogen, which is based on the pre-facelift fourth-generation X5 large SUV.
In this news video, CarsGuide Senior Journalist Tom White deep-dives the role that FCEVs might play in the future of motoring while sampling the iX5 Hydrogen for the first time.
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Timecodes:
00:00 Intro
00:22 FCEV tech overview
01:16 BMW's hydrogen support
01:58 Design
03:58 Driving
05:18 Efficiency
06:07 Under the bonnet
06:31 Efficiency 2
08:11 Outro
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At 4:18, a polite kangaroo waiting patiently for the car passing before it hops over the road barrier
Not being able to purchase hydrogen is kind of a big blocker to anyone thinking of getting a FCEV (there is 1 hydrogen fuel station in my city and it's 50 minutes away from where I live and work).
Hydrogen is highly combustible. Is explosion a risk we should be aware off ?
Like petrol I guess
@@Raturidesagain more severe actually. Hydrogen is in gas form. Fast reaction.
More than just a 'risk'. 27 June 2024 - "Explosion and fire severely damages hydrogen refueling station in Germany just days after it opened to the public". Hydrogen burns at concentrations of 4% to 75 % in air, and explodes from 18% to 60%. It has no odour and the flame is almost invisible in daylight, so you won't even know that it's leaking until it explodes!
Stwp in the right direction!
that tailpipe mist is cool
What does the FCEV car have or can do better than the cheaper PHEV or even HEV? The PHEV and HEV do not need massive spending of new infrastructure as they can use the existing one. Vast majority of population are not going to buy a car that cost a lot more simply because they want to save the environment.
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I don't know if you should think of hydrogen vs electric as petrol vs diesel. More white good vs enthusiast/industrial user
Hydrogen will never be able to service more than a niche market.
There are only 2 ways to make enough to fuel cars en-masse 1) split it from fossil fuels and 2) by passing current through water, in both cases the energy left over (in the hydrogen that is produced) is significantly less than the energy required to make the hydrogen in the first place, you are much better off putting that same energy directly into a battery (btw hydrogen cars are electric cars with a smaller battery and onboard generator)
You go 2.5 times as far putting the energy used to make hydrogen and power a hydrogen car by directly putting that same amount of energy into a battery vehicle.
Each Hydrogen refuelling station costs $2.5million per pump, they can only service 50-60 cars before they need refilling themselves. If they fill 5 cars back to back you need to wait 45min to 1 hour for enough pressure to rebuild to fill the next car.
SO that seems to be warm water vapor emitting from the exhaust ...there seems to be rather a lot of it.
If every car on earth was a Hydrogen car, would that effect the climate?.
It's water vapour- the car is peeing out water as it goes, the hydogen in the tanks passes through a fuel cell, as it does, is combines with oxygen in the atmposhere to make H20.
The water evaporates once it hits the pavement. In a vacuum it’s a 100% renewable source of energy.
too many cars like this on the road can easily make the road wet, potentially create hazard
1 word. Hindenberg.
229km at 65% = 352km at 100%. That’s not beating most EVs. Unless you meant you’ve already travelled 229km and got 65% left. Which would equate to 654km total. Which still isn’t that great.
654 km just terrible!! 😂😂😂
@@pauld61 yeah a lot of EVs get that these days but apparently that’s not good enough. And when the next hydrogen station is over 1000km away, then even 900km isn’t good enough.
Have you heard BYD DMI GEN5? LOL
Toyota knows - BMW will find out.
Hell No No No......
Im all for this..
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Nope! Too expensive, high energy production for what you get and distribution is an issue.
As is electric
@@Bikesbikesbikes500 ever wonder what those power points at home do ?
@@samirvasishth they very slowly charge a car overnight when it may have been needed. If hydrogen stations had been introduced instead of electric charging stations we'd have a viable system going forward
@@Bikesbikesbikes500 Except a hydrogen station is enormously complex to build and maintain - they cost $2.5million per pump and can only service 50-60 cars in total before they need refilling, also they operate at enormous pressures, they can only fill 5 cars back to back before you need to wait 45min to 1 hour for the pressure to rebuild.
If you took the same energy used to make a viable volume of hydrogen to power cars en-masse by either separation from fossil fuels or electrolysis of water and put that directly into a battery car you would go 2.5 times further...i.e. the electricity/energy--->hydrogen--->electricity--->motion cycle of a FCEV is only 40% as efficient as the electricity--->motion cycle in a battery EV.
For the same cost as 1 hydrogen fuel pump you can install almost 50 Tesla superchargers.
It's never going to be anything but niche.
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Australia is sooo far behind, & we don’t need to be, (we don’t even have a car industry)- so no pathetic excuses)! With our abundant ways we can produce green energy. Especially solar, wind, wave, green hydrogen the list goes on!? We need to start with infrastructure. The Libs a TOTAL disgrace-10 Wasted years of denial- climate change anyone!!!”I’m still waiting for Labor to announce SOMETHING!!??
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