On February 4, 2022, the world-renowned Beijing Winter Olympics was grandly opened at the National Stadium "Bird's Nest". The Beijing Winter Olympic Torch, passed by about 1,200 torchbearers, lit the "main torch" of the National Stadium. So far, Sinopec has successfully completed the task of supporting the production of torches for the Winter Olympic Games. This also became the world's first set of high-pressure hydrogen storage torches, achieving zero carbon emissions for the first time in the history of the Winter Olympics.
What does this sport event have to do with cars? Toyota, the vehicle partner of this Winter Olympic Games, has provided a service fleet of 2,000+ units for the Winter Olympic Games. Of these, 140 Toyota Mirais are different: they are driven not by oil, not electricity, but by hydrogen. In addition to Mirai, nearly a thousand domestic hydrogen fuel buses will be served throughout the Winter Olympics.
Toyota Mirai serving the Winter Olympics
When it comes to the drawbacks of electric vehicles, hydrogen energy is always seen as the real future energy source. Today we will talk about, how about hydrogen energy vehicles? Can hydrogen replace electricity?
Can hydrogen vehicles replace electric vehicles?
Pulling the scale of a long time, we know that in the continuous deepening of policy strategies and industries, hydrogen energy vehicles will eventually develop, so will the future development of hydrogen energy vehicles replace electric vehicles? For this question, although from the perspective of the ultimate development of energy consumption, zero emissions is the ultimate goal. The strategic position of hydrogen energy vehicles is very high, but in the short term, the development of electric vehicles has far left hydrogen energy vehicles behind, and the goal of replacing electric vehicles seems to be relatively distant.
Electric vehicles are a good alternative to the application scenarios of traditional fuel vehicles in cities, whether it is passenger cars or public transportation, exclusive cars, etc., the figure of electric vehicles is integrated into all aspects of the entire urban transportation.
However, in the long-distance transportation scenario, the mileage of pure electric vehicles is limited, and multiple energy replenishment is required, and the difficulty of operation is magnified. For electric vehicles in this field, no matter how the future technology develops, it is limited to the ceiling of the performance of lithium battery materials, and the mileage is limited, which also becomes the opening for hydrogen vehicles to cut into the development, as a supplement to new energy vehicles in long-distance transportation scenarios. The development of hydrogen vehicles and electric vehicles is not the relationship between who replaces whom, but the complementary relationship of different application scenarios.
We know that in the development of new energy vehicles, the policy has always been the first, whether it is as a guide and strategic planning, or as a real money and silver throwing money as a backing to support the development of the industry. For hydrogen vehicles, the new policy has also made changes in subsidies that are different from electric vehicles. For example, results-oriented, after the project evaluation and acceptance, you can get the bonus; the bonus can not be used for vehicle project investment and hydrogen refueling station construction, can only be used for core technology industrialization, talent introduction, new models of new technology demonstration and application promotion, etc., these new measures have become more stringent, refined, to avoid the past in electric vehicles in the phenomenon of deception.
During the "two sessions" in 2021, the mainland put forward specific policy directions for hydrogen energy development in the "14th Five-Year Plan": hydrogen energy officially appeared in the 14th Five-Year Plan "Forward-looking Planning for Future Industries", and was jointly planned as "organizing the implementation of future industry incubation and acceleration plans" with cutting-edge technologies such as brain-like intelligence, quantum information, gene technology, future networks, and deep-sea space development. The weight of this sentence is very heavy, even on top of the "new infrastructure", from the perspective of the industry, hydrogen energy, like electric energy, is also part of the "new infrastructure". Generally speaking, as a national strategic security industry, legislation is the top priority, and in the power industry, the mainland has an electric power law that provides the most fundamental support for the development of the power industry.
The guidance at the policy and strategic levels, the deep cultivation of industry and technology, and the temporary development of hydrogen energy vehicles, although slow, will not always stagnate here. Just like the development of electric vehicles, after experiencing the brewing of time and technology, it will also bear sweet fruits. Hydrogen fuel has many application scenarios, such as aerospace, rail transit and distributed energy, etc., in the future, families, companies, apartments will also use hydrogen fuel cells as an emergency power source, hydrogen energy and electric energy, the future will also appear in many scenes of life.
100 years ago, when the first collision between fuel vehicles and electric vehicles, electric vehicles with excessive costs and insufficient supporting facilities were lost to fuel vehicles with high degree of marketization and better user experience. At present, lithium battery and hydrogen energy have their own characteristics, so many people have proposed that due to the strong complementarity of the two, the passenger is mainly lithium battery, and the commercial is mainly hydrogen energy, and the two together constitute the mainstream energy storage method.
Overall forward
At present, many countries have made a choice between hydrogen energy and electric energy, such as Japan and South Korea almost all in hydrogen energy, Europe bet on electric energy, and China and the United States, the two economic powers, have not yet made a clear tendency, the two routes to promote together, the choice of energy technology route is not only related to the future of the automotive industry, but also related to the energy structure of the entire society, in this smokeless battle, each country is cautious.
The use of hydrogen fuel cell vehicles has entered the market. Toyota Mirai, which serves the Winter Olympics, is already the second generation of the series and has been sold in Japan, the United States and other places. In the United States, Mirai can sell 2,000+ units in 2021, mainly to the West Coast with California as the core.
In addition to Japanese manufacturers, South Korea's Hyundai is also moving fast in the field of hydrogen energy. Hyundai's hydrogen fuel cell vehicles are mainly sold to the Korean and European markets, and the main product NEXO is a medium-sized SUV, and the cumulative sales volume worldwide has exceeded 10,000 units.
The application of hydrogen fuel cell vehicles in China is also more extensive than imagined. The application of hydrogen fuel cell vehicles has always been a key area of national development in recent years. By the end of 2021, nearly 10,000 hydrogen energy vehicles have been licensed.
Domestic hydrogen fuel vehicles are mainly used in commercial fields. In recent years, it has been mainly applied in the form of buses, public service vehicles, and long-distance freight vehicles. In Beijing, companies such as Mizuki Tongda have emerged that use hydrogen energy buses to provide bus services such as commuting and tourism.
Most of the hydrogen vehicles put into use during the Winter Olympics are buses that operate daily in Beijing, Zhangjiakou and other places, and the cost of experiencing hydrogen energy vehicles is only 1 yuan.
Some domestic car companies, as well as some mature hydrogen fuel passenger cars, are ready to enter the market. Major main engine plants and parts companies have been laid out, SAIC set up a hydrogen, the development of hydrogen fuel cell system, GAC set up a forward-looking research department, do system integration, and Bosch also changed the style of Tier 1, not only the layout of core components, but also began to develop the system, the importance of hydrogen fuel cells, as can be seen.
Different from the radical route of lithium batteries, the development of hydrogen fuel cells shows a "spiral" development trend. When the government's policy focus is high, the industry development will be relatively fast, when the failure of enterprises is low, the industry development speed will be relatively slow, but regardless of the heat, hydrogen fuel cell vehicles are generally moving forward.
Write at the end
The future must be new energy, there is no doubt about it. However, new energy is not equal to pure electric. In fact, biofuels, hydrogen fuels, and even solar energy and nuclear energy may all be the driving forms of future vehicles. The future application of new energy is bound to be multi-level.
Just like the fossil fuels we use now, there are gasoline, diesel, heavy oil, and kerosene. Hydrogen energy may be used in different fields along with pure electric power.
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