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Role and Importance of Hydrogen-fuel based Mobility to save the World Urban Transport News
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To bring game-changing plan in this particular industry, the Indian government is keen to achieve the onset on Green mobility by the end of 2030 with a potent excuse to make sustainable road transport energy and also cut the carbon emission by 37%. However government is planning to shift from green energy to fuel cell vehicle. The aim is to decarbonize the mobility segment across the Nation. Transport Decarbonisation
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ver the past few years the increasing demand on massive mobility in India has immensely opened multiple travelling options. With over 1.3 billion population of India alone travelling for non-work related, the overall 40% of the country’s population travel over 6 Km for work, making this statistic a huge opportunity of the mobility industry. There isn’t any scope of doubt that the Indian mobility and transport infrastructure has been a constant target of dramatic changes and it has become imaginatively harder to not acknowledge the Green mobility revolution in India.
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The introduction of Battery electric vehicle (BEV) & Fuel cell electric vehicle (FCEV) are in high demand. There is no other way than adopting them if we have to achieve reduction of CGH to 95% by 2025. Without efficient electric drive mechanism like fuel cells long drive climate change cannot be achieved. The use of Fuel cell driving brings the positive impact on environment without changing the personal habits. In Fig 1 shows the suitability of hydrogen & fuel cell reflects the diverse nature of transport sector which spans over land, sea, air, freight & passenger. Role of Hydrogen as a Fuel
Basically a fuel cell is an electro chemical reactor that converts chemical energy of a fuel directly into the electricity. More often times hydrogen has been used as exclusively to describe a reactor as a fuel cell. A hydrogen act as a carrier of energy by reacting with oxygen to form electricity • Hydrogen powertrains: Conventional internal combustion train engine can be modified to run onto pure hydrogen. However, a hydrogen combustion is less efficient as compared to fuel cell. Hydrogen can be blended with natural gas with diesel in dual fuel vehicle. This allows the use of current infrastructure and hence produce low carbon emission. • Passenger cars: Intensive cabonisation should be focused on private cars. Toyota, Hyundai & Honda are now producing FCEV cars. The majority automobile company identified FCEV as the most important trend. • Fuel based Buses: These buses have gained significant attraction to achieve sustainable mode of transport. On an average a bus tank has the capacity to hold 40 kg of hydrogen. These buses
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