China's first batch of imported hydrogen energy vehicles cleared customs in Dalian
Recently, a gas explosion accident occurred in a residential building in a small area of Shuangyashan, Heilongjiang, and the scene was seriously damaged.
Up to now, according to incomplete statistics, there have been as many as 5 gas explosion accidents in Heilongjiang Province this year.
This year, the community where I live is within the scope of the gas pipeline installation plan, but the residents are generally resistant to this reaction, and they have a lingering feeling about the previous experience of many gas accidents, and have many concerns about the safety and stability of gas in the process of storage, transportation and application. In the end, our building was strongly rejected by some owners and did not install connecting pipes.
From this, I thought that the power of the gas explosion was still so huge, and the power of the hydrogen explosion was extremely frightening.
It is also associated with the fact that the state has in-depth consideration of the industrial layout planning of hydrogen energy fuel cell vehicles in China.
Not long ago, the first batch of 140 Toyota hydrogen energy vehicle Mirai imported from Japan in China successfully cleared customs at the Dalian port and will provide relevant service guarantee work during the Beijing Winter Olympics.
Seeing this, we can't help but ask, do we not have hydrogen energy vehicles? Why not use our lithium battery energy vehicles? Do we also want to change the route of the previous lithium battery new energy vehicles?
And this year, the society often hears the sound of singing the decline of lithium battery cars, such as lithium batteries are deceitful, short mileage, long charging time, short service life; lithium battery manufacturing involves metal mining, late recycling, and is not environmentally friendly... Hydrogen energy vehicles are the trend of the times, especially the capital represented by Japanese companies such as the Toyota Group, and the rhetoric is the most intense.
More than once, Akio Toyoda has publicly stated that pure electric vehicles have been over-hyped, and the Japanese government has not taken into account its real carbon dioxide emissions, the impact on electricity shortage, the damage to consumer rights, and the impact on the traditional automotive industry.
Is this really the case?
The recent market capital layout and industrial policy direction depend on the blowing of hydrogen energy to the center of the stage of new energy.
Huawei laid out the hydrogen energy industry, and the hydrogen energy concept stock rose rapidly.
Germany has released a hydrogen energy strategy, planning to invest 8.7 billion yuan in the hydrogen energy industry.
China's lithium battery new energy automobile industry gradually canceled the subsidy policy.
The 14th Five-Year Plan naturalization classifies hydrogen energy as a future industry together with artificial intelligence, quantum information, and information technology.
All indications are quietly encroaching on the position of lithium batteries. Lithium battery technology is really not working?
The future is the era of carbon neutrality, due to environmental factors, most countries in the world have formulated a specific number of years for the withdrawal of internal combustion engine vehicles from the market, and the use of electric motors instead, which leads to the two camps of hydrogen fuel cells and lithium batteries.
The world's major economies have been laid out for many years. Lithium batteries have now become the first choice for major economies such as China, the United States and the European Union, occupying the center of the new energy industry. And China has developed a complete industrial chain in the field of lithium batteries. From metal mining to manufacturing, from parts processing to vehicle assembly.... A large number of excellent enterprises have been incubated. According to statistics, the world's lithium battery industry, China accounts for 73%, it can be said that it is proud of the crowd.
It was also at this time that the singing voice mentioned above appeared. Instead, hydrogen energy has a long endurance, fast charging, and a more environmentally friendly voice. Is this really the case?
We say that the Chinese people are wise and wise. It is impossible for the top level of the state to decide on the layout of any major matter without careful consideration. Chairman Mao once said that China's revolution should be carried out by Chinese, because we have a better understanding of the national conditions, can adapt measures to local conditions, and seek truth from facts. People who also understand the characteristics of Japan must also know that they will not be blind, even if Japanese companies invested heavily in lithium battery companies such as Tesla, making a lot of money, they still did not adhere to the lithium battery route, but they did not do their best to engage in hydrogen energy, why, must be according to their own national conditions. This is where the ass determines sin and position determines thought.
In 2014, Toyota broke through the bottleneck of hydrogen fuel cell technology and launched the Mirai, a four-person car with a 500-kilometer endurance and a 3-minute full, but sales were dismal. By 2020, the global sales volume is less than 10,000 units, and it is mainly domestic users. The reason is that the domestic consumer market is small and the average consumption capacity is insufficient, while the Chinese market, the largest foreign consumer, cannot seize it, and the same is true for other larger economies.
At this point, the answer gradually surfaced...
Japan is a country that does not accept defeat, and cannot lose too much in the fields it has, especially they always have their own unique side in everything, and they cannot completely give up on hydrogen energy technology.
Japan is a country that completely relies on imports of fossil energy, how can it completely hand over the future of new energy to others, subject to people, the only thing that can be independently chosen is the electrolyzed water solution.
Japan's land area is small, the population density is high, the utilization rate of hydrogen refueling stations is high, and the cost is controllable.
Japan has an extremely high level in the shipbuilding industry, and the cost of transporting hydrogen is affordable.
Therefore, although hydrogen energy is expensive in production, transportation, storage, use, protection and other links, it has more advantages than other countries for the overall consideration of Japan's national conditions, that is to say, the relative cost is not very high.
Hydrogen energy requires electrical energy in the production process, and even expensive catalysts, and the technical content of transportation and storage should be very high, which means higher costs. For example, the hydrogen compression process, the material for storing hydrogen devices, the loss of land transportation, etc., are too far behind the efficient grid transmission.
The production of hydrogen energy mainly relies on fossil fuels and water electrolysis, the former certainly pollutes the environment, and the latter electrolysis process also requires electrical energy. Hydrogen energy is environmentally friendly when used, but not when it is obtained.
The power of the hydrogen energy explosion can be imagined, which goes back to my association at the beginning of the article, the hydrogen explosion power is at least 3 times that of liquefied gas, and the lower limit of the explosion concentration is lower than that of liquefied gas.
So why do we need to introduce hydrogen energy? The Chinese nation has a broad mind, and it knows better about thinking of danger in times of peace, and it has a greater awareness of diversified choices. Before Japan has accumulated experience on the road of hydrogen energy technology, mature application, this is a potential new energy technology path, we can continue to deepen the cultivation, pure electric energy complementary is not impossible.