Novel electric vehicle fueled by gasoline and saving 50% ot it
Novel electric vehicles fueled by
gasoline and saving 50% of it
Author: David Judbarovski, principle
inventor, systems engineering
judbarovski@gmail.com, Linkedin
The main obstacle for mass
introducing of hydrogen as a clean and very powerful fuel and fuel cells consuming
the hydrogen as high efficient electricity source, there are flammability and highest
explosion hazard of the hydrogen, and practically 100% lack of hydrogen
refueling stations in comparison with gasoline ones being everywhere, while the
gasoline much less dangerous in usage and very suitable.
In another hand, hydrogen fuel
feeding direct hydrogen fuel cells allows potentially very high energy efficiency
near 100% and practically now being about 65% and very low cost of about USD
40.0/kW as constantly declared about them by DOE (Ministry of Energy) of USA,
but underlining that them can be reachable if being mass produced not less than
100,000 -500,000 units annually.
Being summarized all the said
arguments, in particular: the lack of present demand in hydrogen fuel cells and
lack of electric vehicles consuming hydrogen for fueling, are looked as a
insuperable obstacle for buyers to buy and for businesses to produce such
electric transport in mass quantity, and induced extremely high prices as for
such fuel cells as for such transport in the world markets.
Here I suppose to offer a quite known
and simple and cheap way to overcome the said obstacles, and it is not the
conventional hybrid electric vehicle (HEV) being a type of hybrid vehicle
that combines a conventional internal combustion engine (ICE) system with an electric
propulsion system (hybrid vehicle drivetrain).
I offer twice more energy effective on-board
system combines reforming of light hydrocarbons with water as additional
reactant, and with heating by electricity as energy source for the said
reforming to produce hydrogen for the fuel cell. A tiny rechargeable battery is
used as a starter and short-term storage for the reforming.
It can be (CH2) + 2H2O + electric
heating = 3 H2 + CO2.
Certainly, after the said reforming
it would need a dividing of the hydrogen being very small particles from the
CO2 and other harmful gases poisoning the fuel cell, but the said cleaning
isn’t a big and expensive problem if hydrogen membrane cleaning on-board too.
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