Strategic Issues Facing Transportation, Volume 5: Preparing State Transportation Agencies for an Uncertain Energy Future (2014) / Chapter Skim
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161 Hydrogen has been used for various commercial applications for over a century, but serious interest in hydrogen as a transportation fuel began with the first hydrogen fuel-cell bus demonstration by Ballard Power Systems in 1993 (OFE 2000)
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162 merchant hydrogen, used mostly in off-site refineries and distributed by pipeline or liquid tankers (Joseck 2012)
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163 estimated costs (in 2009 dollars per gge) and emissions characteristics of several centralized and distributed hydrogen production processes and feedstocks in the 2020 time frame.
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164 and $10 to $13 per kilogram for on-site electrolysis. Another study (NRC 2013b)
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165 target cost set by DOE is $30 per kW, which developers hope to achieve via improved materials, reduced use of platinum, and increased power density (Ogden et al.
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166 in comparison to conventionally fueled vehicles. Unlike the emissions of greenhouse gases from the combustion of gasoline or diesel in an ICE, the onboard conversion of hydrogen to electricity releases no GHG emissions.
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167 15 grams per mile, owing to the higher vehicle efficiencies and lower GHGs associated with future hydrogen production assumed by NRC (2013b)
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168 If the cost of renewable hydrogen can be reduced to the same level, the motivations for investing in a shift to FCVs will be more compelling. Fuel-cell cost.
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169 Joseck, F
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