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| Tue, 17th Sep 2019 14:00:00 |
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How clean is hydrogen really? |
A flashy pink racing car drew lots of attention on the racing circuits this summer. Not only for its unusual colour, but also for the sound that was somewhere between humming and screeching, and the cloud of steam at the back. On the circuits in Zandvoort and the TT Assen the pink racer kept up with the loud roaring Porsches. That hydrogen technology has become a serious challenge for combustion engines was very apparent when the Forze VIII combustion engine built by students came second in the Supercar Challenge in Assen. “Never before has a hydrogen driven vehicle left other racing cars behind in an official race, let alone in a race against these type of petrol cars,” said team manager Zhi Whei Cai.
Hydrogen cars are not only found on circuits, you can see them on the motorway too. But you need a bit of luck to see them. These quiet cars are just as rare as Rolls Royces – on 31 May 2019 there were 114 hydrogen cars in the Netherlands compared to 111 RRs sold since 1983. There are 11,000 hydrogen cars in the world now, but according to collated government goals, there should be 2.5 million by 2030. This figure was calculated by the International Energy Agency (IEA) for The Future of Hydrogen report that was handed out to world leaders at the last G20 conference in Tokyo by IEA top man Dr Fatih Birol. ‘Hydrogen is receiving much interest in the world and it could help us make headway on the long held promise of clean energy solutions,’ says Birol in the foreword.
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