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Legal regulations, especially the low emission vehicle LEV laws in California, are the driving forces for more intensive technological developments with respect to a global automobile market. In the future, high efficient vehicles at very low emission levels Ž Ž . . will include low temperature fuel cell systems e.g., polymer electrolyte fuel cell PEFC as units of hydrogen-, methanol-or gasoline-based electric power trains. In the case of methanol or gasolinerdiesel, hydrogen has to be produced on-board using heated steam or partial oxidation reformers as well as catalytic burners and gas cleaning units. Methanol could also be used for direct electricity Ž Ž . . generation inside the fuel cell direct methanol fuel cell DMFC . The development potentials and the results achieved so far for these concepts differ extremely. Based on the experience gained so far, the goals for the next few years include cost and weight reductions as well as optimizations in terms of the energy management of power trains with PEFC systems. At the same time, questions of fuel specification, fuel cycle management, materials balances and environmental assessment will have to be discussed more intensively. O

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Author

Bernd Höhlein; Peter Biedermann; Thomas Grube; Reinhard Menzer

Publisher

Elsevier Science; Elsevier ; Elsevier BV (ISSN 0378-7753)

Published

1999

Language

EN

Field

Engineering (Physical Sciences)