Since the Norway Hynor hydrogen highway project has come to a close, proving the concept that hydrogen cars can indeed traverse steep elevation changes and extremes in temperature what’s the next step?
The next step is to carry the torch and start a new project that involves the Scandinavian Hydrogen Highway project, the European Hydrogen Highway and the German H2 Mobility plan.
A new initiative called the H2moves Scandinavia is designed to help both promote hydrogen cars and the building of the hydrogen highway system particularly that which connects Scandinavia to the ambitious H2 Mobility plan in Germany and seeks to have hydrogen refueling stations and commercial hydrogen cars in place by 2015.
Part of this plan involves rolling out two Alfa Romeo MiTo fuel cell vehicles, 10 Mercedes B-Class F-Cell vehicles and five H2 Logic electric cars with fuel cell range extenders.
I’ve already talked about the Mercedes FCVs at length and I’ll talk about the H2 Logic vehicles another time. What I would like to talk about now is a different vehicle. In the past, I haven’t had many details about the Alfa Romeo MiTo Fuel Cell cars, until now.
According to the press release, “The Alfa Romeo MiTo Fuel Cell car uses a Nuvera Fuel Cell stack combined with a compact Li-ion traction battery pack to supply power to the electric motor; this allows the vehicle to reach a top speed of 150 km/h (93 mph) and to accelerate from 0 to 100 kilometers in 10 sec, with hydrogen consumption of 3.2 liters diesel equivalent/100 km (74 mpg US) and a range of 450 kilometers (280 miles) in NEDC, thanks to 700 bar H2 tanks.”
Having an Italian carmaker such as Alfa Romeo develop fuel cell vehicles is still another sign that Europe is serious about the building out of its hydrogen highway system. Last Friday I had talked about the development of hydrogen fueling stations along the Brenner Motorway between Italy and Austria.
This just shows that Europe is on the move when it comes to hydrogen fueling infrastructure development while the U. S. keeps muddling along at the same pace and falling behind the Europeans in this important alternative energy transition for the near future.
Electricity is really just organized lightning.
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I love to the evolution of Alfa Romeo,there are some really classic models that I wish they were still on production. It is amazing to see how technology and style changes throughout time!!!