Hydrogen Powered Cars

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Hydrogen Powered Cars

• Drive Green

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Benefits for the US

• Lessen the dependency upon foreign oil
• Achieve lower prices at the fuel pumps
• Cut down on greenhouse gases that produce global
  warming

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Research Development

• The Los Alamos National Laboratory (LANL) has
  been conducting research on hydrogen fuel cells
  for 28 years
• Have made significant technological advances in
• Polymer Electrolyte Membrane (PEM) fuel cells
• Direct Methanol Fuel Cells (DMFC)
• The electrolyzer- a fuel cell in reverse,
  liberating hydrogen from electricity and pure
  water

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Which car is Best for the Environment?

1. Gasoline fueled cars?
2. Hybrid cars?
3. Hydrogen cars?

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Hydrogen Cars!!!

• Hydrogen cars offer the promise of zero emission
  technologythe only byproduct from the cars is
  water vapor
• A few of of the pollutants fossil-fuel burning
  vehicles emit are
• Carbon Dioxide C02
• Carbon Monoxide CO
• Nitrous Oxide
• Ozone

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• Fossil Fuel automobiles emit
• 1.5 billion
• tons of greenhouse gases
• Hydrogen based transportation could
• eliminate this!!

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Political Help

• President Bush has given 2
• billion in hydrogen highway research
• Governor Schwarzenegger is pushing to get 200
  hydrogen filling stations built by 2010
• From Vancouver, British Columbia to Baja
  California

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Transition to the world of Hydrogen

• Duel-fuel automotive systems will be developed
  that can run on either gasoline or hydrogen
• Hydrogen infrastructures will be developed
• So the switch from fuel cell automobiles to
  Hydrogen automobiles will be a relatively easy
  transition

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Pros

• Consumers will finally get a break from the never
  ending rising prices at the gasoline pumps
• This so called hydrogen highway will lessen the
  dependence on
• OPEC
• US oil companies
• Oil selling nations Venezuela and Saudi Arabia

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The First Company To Produce a Hybrid

• In 2005, Honda leased the first commercial
  hydrogen car to a family in Redondo Beach,
  California

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Want to Buy a Hydrogen Powered Car?
Or Turn your old car into a Hydrogen Car?
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Companies that sell Hydrogen Cars

• Audi
• BMW
• Ford
• Honda
• Hyundai
• Mazda
• Mercedes
• And More!!

BMW Hydrogen 7
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Prices

• Range to buy a new Hydrogen Car
• Range to transform your fossil-fuel car into a
  Hydrogen Car
• It depends on the company but between 30,000-
  80,000