Liquid hydrogen? 6 yuan? Rao is previous news had made Zhang Lan a little numb to this news, Zhang Lan still couldn't help but almost bit his tongue, "How is it possible?" ”

The industrial manufacturing cost of each liter of liquid hydrogen is only 6 yuan? Oh my! This news can make the international automobile companies that are now swarming with fuel cell vehicle projects go crazy! You know, the cost of producing a liter of compressed gaseous hydrogen is now several times that of 6 yuan, not to mention the extremely dense liquid! Nowadays, the high cost of manufacturing liquid and storing liquid hydrogen in the world is unacceptable to the average person! Think about it, liquid hydrogen is often only used as booster fuel for rockets, and rockets are only launched a few times a year by a country? Unless necessary, how many countries are willing to use liquid hydrogen as a high-energy fuel?

A wave of research on fuel cell vehicles in the world began in the mid-nineties, and the research and development of fuel cell vehicles appeared around 2000, when the world's major automobile manufacturers seemed to be collectively obsessed with the crazy research of fuel cell vehicles and all their related projects, as a boom second only to Internet investment, as long as they heard that the research field is related to fuel cells, venture capitalists are like flies that smell stinky meat. Waving a huge check in your hand like you are flattering, like a street warbler soliciting customers.

Now is the world's United States, Europe and Japan major automobile manufacturers are stepping up the development of fuel cell technology, the business community, especially the major automobile manufacturers see the huge market potential of fuel cells, have invested heavily in the formation of fuel cell vehicle development alliance, fuel cell vehicle related research, testing and production, everyone began to manufacture and use fuel cell experimental vehicles, in order to prove their strength and scientific and technological achievements.

At present, the world's major automobile companies, including Mercedes-Benz, General Motors, Toyota, etc., are very optimistic that with the current speed of technological development, it only takes 2004 for fuel cell vehicles to be mass-produced and industrialized. DaimlerChrysler Automobiles, the third-largest automobile manufacturer in the United States, has even made very optimistic estimates that the price of fuel cell vehicles is expected to drop to about $18,100 per unit. -- This price is already equivalent to the price of a medium-class car in the United States, which means that almost everyone in the United States can afford this kind of fuel cell vehicle.

If the truth is as rosy as they think, DaimlerChrysler AG and all the companies working on fuel cell vehicles and related technologies will be able to count the money and count the cramps!

Even U.S. Secretary of Energy Payer made his own optimistic prediction in an interview with the New York Times in 1998 that fuel cells would enter homes, automobiles and other areas much faster than people thought.

In terms of fuel cell vehicles, the best choice is a solid polymer fuel cell based on proton exchange membrane technology, of course, it can also be called a proton exchange membrane fuel cell, or in a simple way, it can be directly said to be a hydrogen fuel cell, because the fuel of this fuel cell is hydrogen! Nowadays, the types of fuel cells that major automobile manufacturers choose as fuel cell vehicles are all proton exchange membrane fuel cells without exception.

But there are three big problems that are now plaguing major automakers:

The first is how to reduce the manufacturing cost of fuel cells, the cost of fuel cells for fuel cell vehicles is now between .00000 and 2 million US dollars, this price is obviously not the place where ordinary people can consume, even the United States, which claims to be the richest! In the United States, even the cost of buying an Alice-Ferrari 599 GTB is just over $500,000! How to quickly reduce the manufacturing cost of fuel cells to a level that is acceptable to the people has become a difficult problem for all the world's automobile giants and fuel cell research institutions.

The second is how to effectively improve the dynamic life of the fuel cell stack, the current fuel cell stack service life is only a pitiful 200-300, with an average of 3 hours a day, the fuel cell will be scrapped in more than half a year. Spending millions of dollars to buy a car that can only be used for more than half a year, it is estimated that no fool is willing to do such a thing, not even the "Bill Gai".

The third big problem is how to reduce the cost of hydrogen production. If the problem of fuel costs is not solved, everything will come to naught: if hydrogen is much more expensive than gasoline, it is a fool to use hydrogen. People don't care about environmental protection, energy saving and other issues, they only care about how to make their wallets less deflated.

Unfortunately, the cost of fuel cell production has been reduced to a certain extent so far

How to reduce the manufacturing cost of hydrogen is a problem that all automobile manufacturers have not solved until now, and the cost of hydrogen has remained high.

Even if they see a bright future for gas production, well, of course, it can also be said that the world's major energy R&D institutions have invested huge manpower, material and financial resources in research and development, but they still have not effectively reduced the manufacturing cost of hydrogen. Or after spending a huge amount of manpower, material and financial resources, it is found that the little cost that has been reduced is pitiful.

Alice Group suddenly announced its involvement in fuel cell research before, although it is a bit surprising, but it is not very surprising in the eyes of the international community, the international automobile community and the international media, after all, Alice Group is now so-so can be regarded as a world-renowned automobile manufacturing enterprise, Alice Group has developed so rapidly over the years, which is enough to prove the foresight of the boss of Alice Group, and there is naturally no reason not to see the broad prospects of fuel cell projects. There's no reason not to be tempted by such a big piece of cake.

Everyone knows that technology is always fast and slow, and sometimes it may even be just that the patented technology you declared is a day later than others, and the things you worked hard to research may all become useless things, and you must pay high patent royalties to others. Many people speculate that it is estimated that it is based on this that the Alice Group decided to enter the research and development project of fuel cell vehicles.

But now everyone's enthusiasm is very high, but it's a pity that this wave of R&D boom makes everyone dare not say that they died very badly, but they have suffered heavy losses. Zhang Lan knows that as of 2004, the world's major automobile manufacturing giants have "burned" tens of billions of dollars in research on fuel cell vehicles! is worth all the belongings of the world's richest man "Bill Gai". This is only the official figure, counting the money "burned" by those scientific research institutes that study fuel cells and hydrogen energy, it is estimated that hundreds of billions should be no problem. ,

Of course, even after the first wave of fuel cell vehicle research and development in 2004, the research and development of fuel cell vehicles around the world has not stopped, but after the first round of fuel cell vehicle trial operation, the impetuous mentality of fuel cell vehicles in various countries around the world has gradually been eliminated, and the investment in fuel cell vehicles has returned to strengthening the application of basic research from the construction of demonstration vehicles.

But it's only 1998, not to mention that these guys realize the importance of basic application research of fuel cells, and even the most advanced wave of research and development has not yet appeared. Now everyone's mind is full of thoughts is to quickly bring fuel cell vehicles to the market, and then make money, crazy money!

What would happen if he announced that his company had successfully developed a low-cost industrialized method for producing gas on a large scale at this time? Zhang Lan guessed maliciously, I'm afraid that if this news is announced today, the threshold of his home will be broken tomorrow morning by those so-called auto giants who have a fever in their heads and only have fuel cell vehicles in their heads, right?

"Incredible, isn't it?" Seeing Zhang Lan's reaction, Xiao Chenxi was very satisfied: this is in line with the prediction in his heart, if this guy can still look calm and natural, he will be hit with his own ability, "How about it, do you want to announce this news to the world immediately, and then immediately build our hydrogen manufacturing plant?" ”

"That's a good idea," Zhang Lan nodded, and was about to agree, but a flash of light suddenly flashed in his mind: why didn't he take this opportunity to do something? It seems that the first car company to put fuel cell vehicles into commercial operation seems to be a Japanese company? Well, it seems to be the Toyota Motor Group owned by the Mitsui chaebol?

By the way, I remembered that Zhang Lan had some information about Toyota Motor Group's fuel cell vehicles, of course, Toyota's unlucky information on fuel cell vehicles: in July 2003, Toyota Motor Group of Japan, one of the first to put fuel cell vehicles into commercial operation, recalled its six fuel cell vehicles for rent.

That's not all, because Toyota Motor Group has also announced the postponement of the leasing of another 6 fuel cell vehicles due to some problems with fuel cell vehicles.

The reason that was publicly announced was that the high-pressure hydrogen tank for the storage material had leaked during hydrogen refilling.

Almost at the same time, various countries have found that fuel cell stacks are too short and too costly in the trial operation of fuel cell vehicles. A series of problems such as slow dynamic response speed that catch everyone off guard, are overwhelmed, and need to be solved immediately. These problems are all stumbling blocks and roadblocks hindering the commercial operation of fuel cell vehicles.