Page - 58 - in Our Car as Power Plant

58 At first we will use natural gas for the production of hydrogen. That technology, steam reforming, is well known and nowadays widely used. Of course we have to improve this technology, especially the conversion efficiency and purity of the hydrogen produced. We expect that in the near future an efficiency of 80% is possible. In parallel we need to scale down the size of these plants in order to place these installations near fuelling stations. Let us now compare the energy efficiencies of our present gasoline cars and tomorrow’s fuel cell cars. Our gasoline cars use oil as the energy input and our fuel cell cars use gas as an input.