Hydrogen refuelling firm SunHydro is to open its first publicly available refuelling station for hydrogen cars this Friday.
The new refuelling point will be opened at Wallingford, Connecticut in the USA as the firm looks to develop a ‘hydrogen highway’ which will run all the way from Maine to Florida.
The privately funded company would enable motorists to drive hydrogen fuel cell vehicles all the away along the US east coast. The first station will be able to refuel about 10 fuel cell vehicles with stored hydrogen each day, the firm’s founder Tom Sullivan told Fox News CT, using water and electricity to produce hydrogen gas.
SunHydro has already agreed a supply deal with Toyota. The Japanese car maker will provide 10 fuel cell vehicles in Connecticut and New York, as part of a wider project to introduce 100 vehicles for trials throughout the country.
Toyota’s Advanced Fuel Cell Hybrid Vehicle, or FCHV, is driven by an electric motor which is charged by the process of hydrogen from a storage tank reacting with oxygen in a fuel cell stack to produce an electrical charge. With a range of around 350 miles to a full tank, hydrogen fuelled cars offer a driving range and performance similar to conventional fossil fuelled cars. The car manufacturer is hoping to introduce market-ready hydrogen fuel cell cars within the next five years.
