The 2022 Beijing Winter Olympics will open on February 4, and there is a very special place about this Winter Olympics, that is, a large amount of hydrogen energy is used.
First of all, in terms of torches, the previous Olympic Games basically used "propane + butane" as torch fuel, but this time the Beijing Winter Olympics, the use of hydrogen as fuel, hydrogen fuel characteristics to ensure that the torch can be used in extremely cold weather, even if the temperature is low does not affect the torch combustion.
The second is the vehicle used in the Winter Olympics, this time the Winter Olympics use a large number of hydrogen fuel vehicles. Toyota Mirai, which includes the transportation of spectators or staff in yanqing and other mountain areas, as Toyota's second-generation hydrogen fuel vehicle, has a body length of 4973 mm, a body width of 1884 mm, a body height of 1468 mm, a wheelbase of 2918 mm, and a hydrogen injection for 3 minutes, which can last 650 kilometers. In addition to the Toyota Mirai, the H5's hydrogen-fueled vehicle will also be used as a service car for Dongao, transporting athletes and staff.
In addition to cars, there are a large number of buses using hydrogen fuel cell drive, Costa hydrogen engine, Foton Ouhui and other buses, will be used as athletes and staff shuttle buses, service Winter Olympics, according to statistics, this time Toyota for the Beijing 2022 Winter Olympics and Winter Paralympic Games to provide a total of more than 2200 vehicles, equipped with Toyota hydrogen fuel cell system beiqi Foton hydrogen fuel cell bus about 200 units.
Of course, there will be a large number of Toyota hydrogen fuel vehicles in this Winter Olympics, and Toyota is also related to toyota as an Olympic global partner, but why did not choose Toyota's electric vehicles and fuel vehicles, but chose hydrogen fuel vehicles, obviously there are also considerations of the organizing committee. Compared with fuel vehicles, hydrogen fuel vehicles emit only water, which is more in line with the concept of the Green Olympics, and in the previous Tokyo Olympic Games, hydrogen fuel vehicles have completed the task well.
As for the safety of hydrogen fuel vehicles that many people are worried about, we have already popularized science before, hydrogen fuel vehicles are actually safer than electric vehicles, interested can go to check this video, may subvert the truth of your cognition! In fact, hydrogen fuel cars are safer than electric cars! In addition, the importance of the Beijing Winter Olympics is self-evident, if the safety of hydrogen fuel vehicles is really a problem, it is impossible to use hydrogen fuel vehicles in large quantities on such occasions.
Hydrogen-fueled cars are available, so where does the hydrogen come from? Sinopec said, I will come. At present, 16 hydrogen refueling stations will provide hydrogen refueling services for hydrogen fuel cell vehicles during the 2022 Winter Olympics. Among them, most of them are sinopec hydrogen refueling stations.
At present, Sinopec has broken through the low-cost large-scale purification of hydrogen technology, as we all know, China has a large number of industrial by-product hydrogen every year, but these hydrogens are gray hydrogen, the purity is not high, not enough as the fuel for hydrogen fuel vehicles, and Sinopec's hydrogen purification device can make the purity of hydrogen reach more than 99.999%.
Hydrogen is currently widely popularized, the main problems facing it are still the problems of hydrogen production costs, large-scale transportation and storage of hydrogen, and the construction of hydrogenation networks, but this Beijing Winter Olympics has obviously shown us the feasibility of hydrogen fuel vehicles, from the Winter Olympics to the formal commercialization, there may be a long way to go, but the prospect of hydrogen energy is worth looking forward to.