This week we are looking at a car of the future. At least many people think so, and I’m one of them. The car is the Hyundai Nexo and what makes it futuristic is its hydrogen fuel cell powertrain.
Time for a quick science lesson from a man who doesn’t possess a single science ‘O’ level. Remember how, in chemistry, you passed electricity through water and watched bubbles of hydrogen being released?
Well, put crudely the fuel cell works in reverse. Underneath the rear of the Nexo are three tanks containing a total of 157 litres of liquid hydrogen compressed to more than 700 times normal atmospheric pressure.
The hydrogen is fed, together with air, into an anode/cathode fuel cell under the Nexo’s bonnet causing a chemical reaction generating
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