An FFV can use ethanol or methanol or gasoline (or some combination) thanks to a chip and some plastic fittings in the fuel system.
To compress the hydrogen to a manageable volume, Ford must make a fuel system good for 5, 000 pounds per square inch of pressure, using exotic techniques and materials.
Apparently there was an air bubble somewhere in their fuel system that was turning this rather simple routine into an all-day affair of filling up and emptying out jerry cans.
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Earlier this month, Daimler, Ford and Nissan re-upped their commitment to the lead-off batter for the Periodic Table of the Elements by announcing a pact to develop a common fuel cell system that could lead to affordable fuel cell cars by 2017.
Now is not the time to pile a second tax system onto the general aviation industry particularly since the fuel tax system is established, supported and can be adjusted.
Other Intelligent Energy world's firsts in recent years include the development of the world's first hydrogen fuel cell motorbike and supplying the fuel cell system to Boeing which powered the world's first manned fuel cell aircraft.
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Bolt comes with a trick-looking two-into-one exhaust system, which includes an oxygen sensor and exhaust gas catalyst that works with the closed-loop fuel injection system.
The reason for a fuel cell system is that of course the Sun does not shine at night.
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When the bus's fuel processing system converts methanol to hydrogen, it also produces carbon dioxide, but at lower levels than diesel engines.
Ford, Renault-Nissan and Daimler have agreed to jointly develop a fuel cell system to try to speed up the availability of zero-emission vehicles.
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Mercedes' Nico Rosberg, who set the fastest time in first and second qualifying sessions, retired on lap 27 due to an electrical failure, while Sauber driver Nico Hulkenberg did not even start the race due to a fuel-system problem.
Other projects being funded this year include an effort to develop a smaller, less costly and more durable fuel cell power system that will enable commercialization of U.S. fuel cell buses, and an effort to develop and demonstrate a lightweight highly efficient bus that incorporates an improved hybrid-electric drive and enhanced bus design.
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Natural gas powers the four-fuel-cell system, each cell capable of producing 200 kilowatts of electricity.
So having cheap electricity should mean that a place is less likely, not more, to get a fuel cell powered system.
In 2007, protesters set alight dozens of petrol stations after the system of fuel rationing was introduced.
In the technical world we are increasingly viewing the solution to our future fuel needs as a system issue.
While we can't underestimate the challenges we face, we also can't underestimate our capacity to overcome them--to summon that spirit of determination and optimism that has always defined us and move forward in a new direction to create new jobs, reform our financial system and fuel long-term economic growth.
Suddenly, there is a downside to the U.S. patent system, the fuel for worldwide drug research.
In the short term, the plan proposes an electronic tax-collecting system, a fuel premium for private cars, imposing parking charges and creating more bus lanes.
In addition, DG offers the ability to defer costly transmission and distribution system upgrades and enables fuel hedging.
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But the result could be to fuel inflation and subsidise the welfare system, not to give it the trim it badly needs.
In most systems that's done when a bit of diesel fuel is injected into the exhaust system, where it mixes with the stored NOx.
The IFS said that the current system of taxation on fuel "cannot vary according to time and location", and so is "fundamentally unable to account for" differences such as levels of congestion and demand.
There is a "compelling" case for road charging in the UK rather than the current system funded by taxes on fuel, a study has suggested.
"The dominant food-production system is based on fossil fuel at every level, " said Dr Martin Caraher, professor of food and health policy at London's City University.
"The dominant food production system is based on fossil fuel at every level, " says Dr Martin Caraher, Professor of Food and Health Policy at London's City University.
The Hemi also delivers better fuel economy, thanks to its multidisplacement system. (At cruising speeds, four of the Hemi's eight cylinders shut down, conserving fuel.) So Hemi buyers get all the power and not much of the guilt.
The fact is that business aircraft operators already pay taxes to support the aviation system, every time they buy fuel.
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At the same time, the reactor system would have no need for fuel handling, all of which helps to alleviate proliferation concerns.
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"The company makes a system called PosiCharge, basically a fuel pump to recharge an electric battery, " writes Brendan Coffey, editor of Cabot Green Investor.
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