Technology
Honda developed a
fuel cell electric vehicle that can supply electricity to outside. The power it
can supply is about 6 days’ power requirements of a general household. The
company plans to launch this new vehicle toward the end of 2015. It modified
part of its “FCX Clarity” and mounted an inverter for power conversion in the trunk.
The FCX Clarity generates power using hydrogen in the fuel tank and supplies up
to 9 kW electricity for more than 7 hours consecutively. This is the
electricity enough to satisfy the power requirements of a general household for
6 days.
Responding to the
requests from the Ministry of the Environment, Honda also installed Japan’s first
solar hydrogen station inside the premises of Saitama Prefectural government
that does not emit carbon oxide at all throughout the process from the
production to the supply of hydrogen. Using its original high-pressure water
electrolysis system that integrates the production and compression of hydrogen,
it successfully eliminated a compressor to realize a small-size and low-noise
station. It can generate 1.5 kg of hydrogen in 24 hours using sunlight and commercial
power. The 1.5 kg of hydrogen is enough to run an FCX Clarity for about 150 km.
The company verifies the practicality of the FCX Clarity as a mobile power
generation unit by asking Saitama Prefecture to use it as an official vehicle.
Honda's fuel cell electric vehicle - FCX Clarity
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