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Honda today outlined the company’s plan to boost the use of mobile hydrogen fuel generation and expand its business in the hydrogen sector. The announcement comes on the same day that Honda’s joint venture with GM, Fuel Cell System Manufacturing, began mass production of the new Honda. Mobile Fuel Formula in Brownstown, Michigan. According to the automaker, this company will be the first to produce hydrogen fuel mobiles on a large scale.
The new mobile fuel formula has been jointly developed by Honda and GM over the past decade and is expected to double durability while lowering prices through a third-generation formula over the previous generation, notably the 2019 Honda Clarity Fuel Cell.
Honda has been working on research and development of fuel-powered mobile cars (FCEVs) with hydrogen and fuel for more than 30 years.
Jay Joseph, VP of sustainability and business development at American Honda Motor, says it isn’t a choice between battery electric or hydrogen fuel cell technology rather, it’s about “selecting the right energy source, in the right place, for the right purpose, to achieve carbon neutrality as quickly and efficiently as possible.”
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Honda strives to achieve carbon neutrality for all of its products and corporate operations by 2050. Part of the effort will be to “make new Honda cars from old Honda cars” with the full use of sustainable materials. The company says it will create a circular economy so Honda can recycle or reuse all of its car fabrics, reprocess them into raw fabrics, and reuse them in the creation of new products.
Honda sees hydrogen as one of the energy carriers with the greatest potential supporting this direction of renewable energy and electrification. The “hydrogen flow cycle”, which begins with renewable energy, is made up of 3 phases: production, storage/transport and use.
Specifically, through water electrolysis technology, excess electrical energy derived from renewable force resources can be used to create “green hydrogen,” which can be stored indefinitely without loss of strength. Using mobile fuel technology, this hydrogen can be converted back into emissions. Free electric power for a variety of purposes, adding backup strength on the desk to account for fluctuations in electric power generation due to seasonality and weather conditions. Stored hydrogen can also be used to send force to where it is needed, land, sea, and pipelines.
Honda will expand the applications of the new Honda fuel cell system beyond FCEVs to various internal and external applications, thereby stimulating demand for hydrogen and facilitating the carbon neutrality of society through the use of hydrogen.
Honda has known four main spaces for the initial use of its new mobile fuel system: FCEVs, advertising mobile fuel vehicles, desktop power plants and construction machinery.
This year, Honda will launch an all-new CR-V FCEV built at Honda’s production facility in Marysville, Ohio. It will be the fuel-powered mobile electric passenger vehicle manufactured in the United States.
The company is also working in commercial vehicles, developing the Giga Fuel Cell, a zero-emissions fuel cell-powered heavy-duty truck currently being co-developed with Isuzu Motors. The two companies have begun demonstration testing of a prototype model on public roads in Japan and plan to introduce the production model in 2027.
Honda is even a Class 8 hydrogen fuel mobile truck in the U. S. He is in talks with prospective clients.
Honda also began testing a desktop fuel mobile power plant at its Torrance, California, campus in March 2023, marking the company’s first step toward long-term commercialization of zero-emission backup power generation. The power station supplies clean, quiet backup power to Honda engines. Knowledge Center. In December 2023, Honda also announced a similar joint allocation in Japan, where Honda will identify a mobile desktop fuel station to force a Mitsubishi knowledge center.
To achieve widespread use of mobile fuel systems, it is necessary to identify the hydrogen ecosystems that come with hydrogen supply. Honda has supported the expansion of hydrogen station networks in Japan by participating in the Japan Hydrogen Station Network Joint Company (Japan H2 Mobility/JHyM). and in North America by supporting hydrogen station corporations such as FirstElement Fuel and others.
Honda will also proactively participate in hydrogen generation projects organized by national and local governments that currently use large volumes of imported hydrogen at ports and other locations. Through these initiatives, Honda will work to build partnerships with companies involved in this new area.
Finally, Honda is conducting advanced hydrogen R&D while envisioning use in outer space, another potential area where hydrogen technologies such as a fuel cell system and high differential pressure water electrolysis technologies can be utilized. In addition to water and food, people need oxygen, as well as hydrogen for fuel and electricity for various activities supporting life in space.
To enable sustainable space activities, it is necessary to minimize the need to obtain those resources from the Earth. One solution to this challenge is to create a “circulating renewable energy formula,” which combines a differential high-voltage water electrolysis formula that produces oxygen. and hydrogen solar power to electrolyze water, and a mobile fuel formula that generates electrical power and water from oxygen and hydrogen.
To create such a system, Honda undertakes R&D.
Based on this contract, Honda will be commissioned by JAXA to first conduct concept studies, then to develop a “breadboard model4,” an early-stage prototype, by the end of the 2024 fiscal year (ending March 31).