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BMW Series 1 Fuel Cell Hybrid Electric Car Announced
UTC Power has announced that their 5 kW fuel cell is being used inside a new BMW Series 1 Hybrid electric car. The unveiling this week was during the 25th anniversary BMW ZT celebration in Munich, Germany.
UTC has been working on this fuel cell since 1999. According to UTC Vice President, Ken Stewart, “From a fully frozen state, the fuel cell
is half way to full power in less than 30 seconds. The system uses UTC Power’s
proprietary ambient pressure technology, which does not require a compressor to
deliver air to the cell stack. This results in a quieter, more efficient
system."
So far, BMW has not come forward with many details about the Series 1 fuel cell hybrid vehicle (a similar vehicle is pictured). Back in
December 2009, BMW had said they are scaling back operations, pulling engineers
off the BMW Hydrogen 7 to work on their line of hybrid vehicles because of the
depressed overall car sales.
For more info read: BMW Series 1 fuel cell
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Comment by Pierre-Yves Le Berre on August 24, 2010 at 8:01pm -
well, I don't want to be controversial but, compressor noise is not that difficult to "quiet" down, at least easier than any diesel engine. Beyond that noise point, what is true for stationnary applications seems to be much more difficult when ambient air condition have variations like in mountain environment. As our company is based in the Alpes (SymbioFCell is based in Chambery France), we are experiencing that type of conditions on our range extenders for EV and eventually be interested in UTC power demo from 0 to 1800 m altitudes with that type of ambient technology.
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