EQUIPAUTO 99 15 October 1999 Will Fuel Cells Power our Future?

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EQUIPAUTO 9915 October 1999 Will Fuel Cells
Power our Future?
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William Grove
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Interest has suddenly increased

• Heavy investment

• Significant technical progress

• The race has started

• Systems becoming available

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Automotive Fuel Cell Drivers

• Vehicle parc 1,600m by 2030

• Increase in vehicle size and power

• Increasing electricity requirements

Fuel cells are uniquely able to address
environmental problems
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Automotive Fuel Cell Drivers

• Kyoto agreement requires CO2 reduction

• Europe will reduce car CO2 emissions

• Aggressive fuel/CO2 taxes

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World Oil Production will decline in the next 10
- 20 years. At the same time, dependence on OPEC
will significantly increase.
Source Campbell, The Coming Oil Crisis, 1998
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Automotive Fuel Cell Drivers

• Increasing human morbidity and mortality

• European death toll - 80,000

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Automotive Fuel Cell Drivers

• California Zero Emission Vehicle by 2003

• Major US cities will continue to experience poor
  air quality

Public policy will help build a market for FCVs
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Unique Combination of Advantages

• Converts fuel energy directly into electricity

• Minimum or zero NOx, SOx, HC and particulates

• Increased energy efficiency/reduced CO2 emissions

• Reliable and durable

• H2 derived from variety of sources

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Status of Fuel Cell Vehicle development

• All major automakers now involved

• Daimler-Benz/Ballard/Ford Alliance and Chrysler
  Merger

• GM And Toyota to co-operate

• Target Launch date 2003/4 for car

• Oil companies now involved