Hydrogen Electric Cars Australia

Environmentally friendly hydrogen cars built at port kembla should be on the road within two years.

Hydrogen electric cars australia.

Japanese car giant toyota says australia is perfectly placed to adopt hydrogen cars but the lack of refuelling points is holding back the technology. Hyundai s latest hydrogen powered car was revealed at the 2018 consumer electronics show and is a full. Nevertheless in the uk there were only ten hydrogen powered buses in service in march 2019 alongside 155 electric ones with more arriving and 3 669 hybrid ones. Its first project is a hydrogen powered suv the snowy named after australia s hydro scheme that comes with a 60 kilowatt fuel cell and an overall power output of 190 kilowatts.

Recently in queensland premier annastacia palaszczuk announced that hydrogen powered fuel cell electric vehicles fcevs would be integrated into the government s vehicle fleet as part of the 19 million queensland hydrogen industry strategy 2019 2024. At this stage there are no fuel cell powered cars available to buy or lease in australia in. It expects a prototype will be ready by november with hopes it will go into commercial production by 2022 or 2023. A similar grey import scheme has driven nissan leaf sales in new zealand which has a fifth of the population of australia but around the same number of electric cars.

Hydrogen vehicles solve so many of the problems associated with battery electric cars and yet they have all but disappeared from the discussion on the future of the automobile. The electric car that runs on hydrogen has been formally certified by the australian government cleared for use on local roads and scored top marks in the latest crash safety tests. The auto industry in australia argues there are issues in using the sev scheme to bring in electric cars that are not otherwise available here citing safety and battery warranty. Toyotaand hyundaialready produce showroom ready hydrogen cars but can t sell them to the public in australia because there is nowhere to refuel them.

The hydrogen cars that are coming to australia hydrogen on the horizon.