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Now the pundits are advising to buy fuel cell stocks while they are shorting the dismal Tesla stocks.


Another Tesla loaded with a lithium fire bomb goes up in smoke.


Time to buy fuel cell stocks
By Brian Hicks Written Aug. 07, 2018

Two weeks ago, automobile maker Toyota made a major decision that will not just impact the future of the Japanese car giant, but could alter the global transportation and possibly the global energy market for years to come.

It will also positively impact investors in a small but quickly developing tech industry.

Toyota announced it is “doubling down on its investment in hydrogen fuel cell vehicles (FCV) designing lower-cost, mass-market passenger cars and SUVs and pushing the technology into buses and trucks to build economies of scale.”

Why is this so significant?  Easy.
With a market capitalization of nearly $200 billion and $266 billion in annual sales, Toyota is by far the largest automaker in the world.  In fact, no other automobile company comes close.




So when the king of the hill declares it’s going all in on hydrogen fuel cells as its future power source for its automobiles, you have to take notice. Period.

According to Toyota:
We’re going to shift from limited production to mass production, reduce the amount of expensive materials like platinum used in FCV components, and make the system more compact and powerful.

The company is planning a phased introduction of other FCV models, including a range of SUVs, pick-up trucks, and commercial trucks beginning around 2025.

Toyota sees hydrogen as the future fuel for the next 100 years.




Let me talk about the first benefit, driving range. Toyota intends to push the driving range of its fuel cell vehicle, the Mirai, to hit 1,000 kilometers by 2025. That’s a range of over 600 miles on a single tank.

One of the obstacles to mass adoption of electric vehicles like the Tesla and Chevy Volt is something known as “range anxiety.” In other words, Americans are concerned they’ll run out of a charge before making it to a charging station.

In my more youthful years, it was nothing for me to pack up my car and head to the Eastern Shore for the day. A one-way trip to Ocean City, Maryland, is 150 miles. If I came back that night, the round trip is 300 miles.

And, of course, there was no shortage of gas stations on the route. Filling my tank took less than five minutes.

For comparison, the Tesla Model S has a range of 270 miles on a single full charge. And charging it takes no less than 20 minutes.

The differences don’t end there.
Hydrogen is the most abundant element in the universe and stores more energy than a battery of equivalent weight.

This is one of the reasons the U.S. military is testing hydrogen fuel cells as its primary fuel source. It’s limitless, can power just about everything (not just vehicles), and is silent and gives off no heat signature, a major plus for the military, which relies on stealth.

As Toyota and the U.S. military continue to explore, develop, and adopt hydrogen fuel cells as their power source, you can expect hydrogen fuel cell stocks to come into focus by investors.

Hydrogen fuel cell stocks have a long history of boom and bust cycles. But just a casual glance at some of the more popular names in this space shows this industry is ripe for a breakout.

Toyota will be the spark that ignites the next rally.
In the coming weeks, we will show you exactly how to play the coming boom.

Until then,
Brian Hicks

So more RE being built that MAY involve electrolysis to generate hydrogen???

So hydrogen is not the fuel of the future, the sun is.

The Asia renewable Hub is BIG.

VIDEO: Asia renewable Hub

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Gosh it is hard to keep up with the rapid advances in hydrogen technology.




Hydrogen-powered mobility edges closer with next-generation fuel cell systems
August 7, 2018, CORDIS

Hydrogen-powered mobility edges closer with next-generation fuel cell systems.

Scientists have made significant progress in the design of vital components used in hydrogen fuel cell vehicles. Improved features will lower production costs and help create a clean automotive future.

With hybrid and all-electric battery-powered cars now becoming mainstream, hydrogen's importance as a versatile, clean and safe energy carrier is increasingly recognised. Although its use in transport is gaining momentum, the current market share of fuel cell electric vehicles (FCEVs) is small due to high costs and efficiency problems. A group of experts is addressing this challenge as part of the EU-funded INN-BALANCE project. They have recently specified the interfaces between the crucial components of the FCEV technology to improve their design.

As stated in a press release on the project website, "important milestones have been reached regarding the definition of interfaces between components and the fuel cell stack as well as the design of the stack housing and the anode, cathode and the cooling modules."

These components are referred to as auxiliary components, or 'balance of plant' (BoP). They regulate the fuel cell system and manage the supply of hydrogen and air to the stack. "INN-BALANCE seeks to engineer various improvements at the BoP level with a special focus on manufacturing-oriented design. The aim is to lower the costs for the industrial production of fuel cell systems."

Quoted in the same press release, Jörg Weiss-Ungethüm from the German Aerospace Center, who is in charge of developing the cooling system, said the cooling module is used for the thermal management of the stack. This has a significant impact on the water management and is critical in terms of performance. In addition, the BoP components have to be kept at "optimal temperature and heat has to be supplied to the passenger cabin as needed."

Maximising output while minimising losses

The ongoing INN-BALANCE (INNovative Cost Improvements for BALANCE of Plant Components of Automotive PEMFC Systems) project also proposes an "integrated injector/ejector solution." This will maximise the power output from the stack while minimising hydrogen losses.

PEMFC stands for proton exchange membrane (PEM) fuel cell, also called polymer electrolyte membrane fuel cell. It's a type of acid-based fuel cell that uses the transport of protons from the anode to the cathode through a solid PEM. These fuel cells run at temperatures below 100 °C. Anode and cathode are the two electrodes in a battery or fuel cell, where the former is positively charged and the latter is negatively charged during electricity generation. Most fuel cells designed for use in vehicles produce less than 1.16 volts of electricity – far from enough to power a vehicle. Therefore, multiple cells must be assembled in a fuel cell stack.

In an FCEV, electrical energy that powers the electric motor to propel the vehicle is supplied through a chemical reaction that takes place between hydrogen and oxygen in the fuel cell. Converting hydrogen gas into electricity produces only water and heat as a by-product. If the hydrogen is being generated by a sustainable source, this means fuel cell vehicles could provide zero-emission transportation opportunities.

INN-BALANCE was set up to develop a novel and integrated platform for developing advanced BoP components in current fuel cell-based vehicles. This is aimed at improving their efficiency and reliability, reducing costs, and presenting a stable supply chain to the European car manufacturers and system integrators.



https://phys.org/news/2018-08-hydrogen-powered-mobility-edges-closer-next-genera...

Mainstream vehicles both small and large will obviously become hydrogen powered.




Why Toyota is doubling down on hydrogen fuel cell vehicles for its future
Alicja Siekierska August 7, 2018 5:00 AM EDT Last Updated August 7, 2018 5:00 AM EDT

Elon musk may call hydrgen technology 'dumb', but Toyota believes it's a better answer to the problems of distance and size of zero emission cars.

When Ontario Premier Doug Ford cancelled the province’s incentives for consumers who bought electric vehicles in July, executives at Toyota Canada weren’t upset.

“I wasn’t a big fan of the incentives,” vice-president of corporate strategy Stephen Beatty said in an interview with the Financial Post.

“If you build up consumer demand solely based on how many thousands of dollars the government can give you to encourage you to buy a car, that to me doesn’t sound like a terribly sustainable business model.”

Toyota has argued that a one-size-fits-all approach focusing on the sale of zero-emission vehicles — particularly on the sale of electric cars — misses the mark when it comes to reducing greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions.

In fact, while many automakers are following Telsa’s footsteps and investing heavily in launching new battery electric vehicles, Toyota has taken a different approach. The Japanese automaker is doubling down on hydrogen fuel cell vehicles — still a zero-emission electric vehicle, but one that is powered by the most abundant element on earth.


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https://business.financialpost.com/transportation/why-toyota-is-doubling-down-on...