Hydrogen Fueled Cars with Internal Combustion Engines

Where we were?

Electric cars, battery technologies, hydrogen fuel cars, custom-made hydrogen fuel cells, cars powered by compressed air, even hybrid cars…

Is there any automobile technology that we haven't mentioned among the alternatives to classic cars with internal combustion engines?

I even talked about Japanese-made ammonia fuel cell cars in a recent article. I think Toyota was dealing with this interesting technology. I don't remember exactly, it could be another Japanese brand. I'm sure the Japanese are trying, though.

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Look, you know my favorite is hydrogen fueled cars, I say this all the time.

However, hydrogen is a more dangerous fuel than gasoline. Because when it reacts with oxygen, the energy released is much more than when gasoline reacts with oxygen. Chemical! I guess there is no one who doesn't know this.

Maybe that's why a cell called the hydrogen fuel cell had to be developed. Today's hydrogen fueled cars produce electricity from hydrogen and move with the electric motor mounted on the vehicle.

How did the hydrogen fuel cell work?

The fuel passed hydrogen and oxygen from the air through special catalytic layers, allowing the hydrogen to burn slowly, and by collecting the electrical energy obtained from this ionized process in a smaller accumulator placed in the vehicle, it became the power source of our vehicle, which was powered by an electric motor.

Of course, there is a loss of energy from this chemical transformation. First the transformation from hydrogen to electricity, then from electricity to motion. This is a waste of free energy! There is the law of conservation of energy, but what I call loss is the loss of free, that is, usable energy, that is, the energy that turns into unusable heat.

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By the way, I don't think I need to remind you that the product formed by the combustion of hydrogen is water vapor. Fuel hydrogen is a green energy source.

Although not that much green energy is used in its production yet, its production still produces less carbon emissions than the direct combustion of fossil fuels.

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The biggest advantage of these hydrogen fueled vehicles over normal battery electric vehicles was that they did not have battery problems.

What was the battery problem?

Hydrogen-fueled cars did not need so many heavy batteries, and they did not have range problems.

Because, far from filling the tanks with hydrogen in a short time like a normal gasoline vehicle, it could be filled with enough fuel hydrogen to last a sufficiently long range.

Electric engines were also lighter because they did not receive electricity from that huge heavy battery, and since electricity was constantly fed from the fuel cell, there was no decrease in performance in the electrical level during driving.

As you know, in normal electric cars, as the energy level decreases, the power loss of the electric motor also poses a problem.

Moreover, since the so-called battery is a very heavy part in electric cars, the electric motor has to be chosen with more capacity, and this causes range problems in electric cars. In vain, so much weight has to be carried throughout the entire trip, and this also includes the extent of damage that heavy mass will cause in case of an accident.

When we include the charging time of the battery and the fact that the electrical infrastructure of charging stations is quite costly, electric vehicles have many problems.

As I wrote recently, the increase in the sales charts of electric vehicles has not been as expected for this reason and many European automobile companies have chosen to slow down their investments.

I also wrote in my previous article that China's monopolization of battery production contributed greatly to this.

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I always say hydrogen fueled cars are my favorite, but of course hydrogen has its own problematic aspects.

The main problem is that hydrogen is a very flammable gas!

The storage system and the channels that carry hydrogen to the fuel cell must be made very well and robustly.

It is also said that freezing problems occur while filling the tank.

The rest are actually similar problems with cars that run on natural gas instead of gasoline.

There should be no hydrogen leakage in the system and therefore a good maintenance chart is needed. The vehicle needs to be maintained and checked quite frequently.

However, it has many advantages.

In fact, since hydrogen fuel can be filled from normal gas stations such as natural gas stations, there is no need to completely change the system such as electrical infrastructure at filling stations. This means that infrastructure investments are much more economical than electric cars.

Although electric cars have taken a little more priority in production for now, both because the filling time of the tank is shorter than filling gasoline and because it is very easy to convert existing gas stations into hydrogen filling stations, I think hydrogen fueled cars will be replaced much faster than today's cars with internal combustion engines. They will pass.

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Really, we currently mostly use vehicles with internal combustion engines, right?

From where? Because this is the only way energy can be obtained from fossil fuels. There are other types of piston engines, but it is not possible to obtain energy from fossil fuels without burning fossil fuels in the engine.

The engines of new cars are electric motors, although they are hydrogen fueled or even ammonia fueled.

So, on the other hand, changes will probably need to be made regarding repair and maintenance centers.

Look, it seems like all the years of internal combustion engine production experience of almost all automobile companies will be wasted in this case!

So, a question comes to my mind: Why don't they use hydrogen directly as fuel in internal combustion engines, like gasoline or natural gas?

Can't we use hydrogen as fuel in internal combustion engines like fossil fuel?

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I came across information on the internet that Toyota was working on this issue.

Apparently Toyota thought of this again!

They even say that hydrogen is more efficient than gasoline as a direct fuel.

As I said above, when hydrogen is burned as a chemical reaction, much more energy is released. The way of mind is one. Naturally, hydrogen will be much more efficient when used directly as fuel.

Of course, in internal combustion hydrogen engines, all parts had to be changed to withstand much higher temperatures, and the transmission channels that transmit hydrogen from the tank to the engine were made of much stronger materials in order to avoid the risk of explosion.

And yes, Toyota even participated in races with its vehicle equipped with an internal combustion hydrogen engine!

They haven't won the race yet, but I think they will definitely win when they develop the engine further.

They also make versions of this engine for large vehicles.

So tomorrow you may come across large trucks fueled by hydrogen on the roads.

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Look, this was the only thing missing in the articles I wrote about the automobile world, and since I wrote this, this job is complete.

I always said that hydrogen fueled cars would be the vehicles of the future, but this was just a feeling, I wasn't exactly sure. At least the world was turning more towards electric cars.

But now I'm completely sure.

The definitive future will be the future of hydrogen fueled vehicles.

Moreover, it was written in the source I read that it was no different from a gasoline vehicle in terms of performance.

Many people said that they did not feel the difference during test drives.

Yes, I think even though it is not available for sale yet, test drives have started. Maybe they even put it on the market. Even if it didn't come out, I know they at least had it tested. That's what it said in the source.

In fact, it was written that Toyota's new hydrogen fueled car with an internal combustion engine had a much longer range.

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Like the hydrogen fuel vehicles I mentioned before, Toyota also has a hydrogen fuel cell model, which has been on the market for a few years.

The name of the model is Mirai, which means "future" in Japanese.

In its advertisement it is written that it can go 1360 km on a single tank.

In fact, they are launching the third version of this model this year. They made some changes to expand the interior and trunk.

Fuel cell models weren't bad either.

No, no, I did not receive any advertising from Toyota in the article, my car was also a Toyota at one time, it was just that I had an emotional connection with it, so while I was looking at it, I also looked at this issue for a while.

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I don't know what they called the vehicles with new internal combustion hydrogen engines, or what they will call them if they haven't given them yet.

But there's one thing I know!

I think since it is a classic internal combustion engine, this engine also has a sound like gasoline cars.

Bro, is a vehicle that doesn't make any sound when you press the gas called a car?

Sir, electric vehicles are very quiet...

Cars this quiet are so sneaky, you don't even realize there's a car behind you when you're driving on the road.

Okay, traffic and noise problems, but for some reason I like vehicles that make a sound when you press the gas.

When you step on the gas, the car will make a sound like a man. You will hear that sound of pressing the gas with your ear, and once you press it, it will accelerate.

I think Toyota's new hydrogen fueled cars with internal combustion engines will spread rapidly around the world!

At least they weren't expensive.

Although we don't need a car around here. Russians have even made their public buses electric recently. They call it ekektrobus. At one time, there were public buses powered by natural gas because they emit less smoke, but there still are, but now electric buses have emerged, I see more electric buses on the roads.

I don't even count the trams, suburban lines and the metro.