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We can design car-park power plants or E-car parks. The
car parks of today, where hundreds of cars are parked, can
be changed into car parks that produce electricity, heat
and water. With hydrogen fueling stations, where biogas
and electricity is converted into hydrogen. These car parks
can be a transfer station too, where you change from one
way of transport to another. For example from your car to
public transport in the city, from your car to an e-bike, or
from your large fuel cell car to a small electric car.
We can design E-neighbourhoods with houses, schools,
work places/offices and other buildings, that are very
energy efficient. Renewable electricity will be generated
via solar systems on the roof of the buildings and medium
sized wind turbines in the area. Biogas will be generated
from the manure, food residues and local biomass. The fuel
cell cars parked at home, in the neighbourhood, at school
or at the offices can deliver electricity when there is a
shortage. And the electricity and biogas can be converted
into hydrogen at a neighbourhood fueling station. A smart
local grid can control, distribute and balance supply and
demand.
We can design E-highways. Electric cars and fuel cell cars
will drive automatically as a chain of connected cars in an
energy efficient and comfortable way. Along the E-high-
ways we install wind turbines and solar systems to produce
electricity, waste water treatment plants to produce biogas,
together with hydrogen fueling stations where biogas and
electricity is converted in hydrogen.
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book Our Car as Power Plant"
Our Car as Power Plant
- Title
- Our Car as Power Plant
- Authors
- Ad van Wijk
- Leendert Verhoef
- Publisher
- IOS Press BV
- Date
- 2014
- Language
- English
- License
- CC BY-NC 4.0
- ISBN
- 978-1-61499-377-3
- Size
- 14.8 x 21.0 cm
- Pages
- 108
- Keywords
- fuel cell cars, renewable energy, The Green Village, sustainability
- Category
- Technik
Table of contents
- THE VISION 7
- REASONS TO BELIEVE 8
- OUR CARS 13
- 100 YEARS OF CAR DEVELOPMENT 14
- ENERGY EFFICIENCY FROM A TO B BY CAR 18
- FUTURE DEVELOPMENTS IN TRANSPORTATION 22
- NUMBER OF CARS WORLDWIDE 25
- OUR ENERGY SYSTEM 31
- TOWARDS INTEGRATED ENERGY SYSTEMS 32
- ELECTRICITY SYSTEM WORLDWIDE 36
- POWER-SYSTEM EFFICIENCY 40
- FUEL CELL CARS 45
- THE FUEL CELL 46
- THE FUEL CELL CAR 50
- HYDROGEN 52
- HYDROGEN STORAGE 55
- FUEL CELL CAR FOR TRANSPORT 57
- THE FUEL CELL CAR AS POWER PLANT 63
- CAR-PARK POWER PLANT 64
- CAR-PARK POWER PLANT ENERGY SYSTEM 67
- THE FUTURE 71
- CARS CAN TAKE OVER POWER PLANT CAPACITY 72
- FUTURE ENERGY- AND TRANSPORT SYSTEMS 75
- FUTURE CITIES 80
- THE CHALLENGES 87
- TECHNOLOGICAL CHALLENGES 88
- SYSTEM CHALLENGES 92
- WHY IT WILL HAPPEN 97
- FUEL CELL CARS WILL COME 98
- IT IS OUR CAR! 99
- REFERENCES 101
- SUMMARY 105
- ABOUT THE AUTHORS 106