Has the Hydrogen Car Lost Out on the Electric Car or Will There Be a Comeback?

It seemed to be an exciting race, the car running on hydrogen versus the one running entirely on electricity. Until the sheer tension took a disastrous turn. In Sandvika, near Oslo, a high-pressure tank at a hydrogen fuel station exploded in mid-2019. Two motorists were lightly injured by the pressure wave, but this could have ended completely differently with the hydrogen stored under high pressure in the tanks. What does this mean for the race between the hydrogen car and the EV?

This is a submission from Keysight Technologies. Keysight partners and supports some of the biggest innovators in the automotive industry and will share how they are transforming the way we drive at the Consumer Electronics Show 2020 in Las Vegas.

ON Semiconductor has announced the first two variants of its new VE-Trac PIM (Power Integrated Module) family of high-voltage inverters designed to drive electric vehicle traction motors. These PIMs provide an enhanced level of electrical and thermal performance, as well as scalability and a high level of reliability for automotive drive applications...

Hyundai plan to introduce improved in-cabin road-noise cancellation technology in its upcoming Genesis model.

Granted, there are simpler ways to monitor your car battery voltage, but in the age of networked vehicles, we can exploit IoT technology, telemetry and network protocols so that you don’t even need to lift the hood.

With all the hype surrounding electric vehicle design its easy to overlook alternative technologies that also use sustainable sources of energy. At the Empa motor research lab (ETH Zürich) an internal combustion vehicle engine running on compressed natural gas has been designed that achieves a peak efficiency of 45%...

The Lightyear One can drive 725 kilometres between charging. With that metric the Dutch car surpasses all other existing electric cars, including the Tesla, by a wide margin.

Hydrogen as a transport fuel is slowly gaining ground. The Green Team Twente have presented their most fuel-efficient model of their hydrogen car. This year the team will again participate in the Shell Eco-Marathon in early July in London.

The Fraunhofer Institute for Applied Optics and Precision Engineering has developed a new generation of light sources for cars, which exceeds both the legal and automotive requirements defined in terms of light output and functionality, and is also more compact and easier to build than current systems...

A PiCAN 2 HAT provides your Raspberry Pi with full CAN-Bus capability: CAN v2.0B at 1 Mb/s and high-speed (10 MHz) SPI Interface. It uses the Microchip MCP2515 CAN controller with MCP2551 CAN transceiver. The connection is made via DB9 or through a 3-way screw terminal. The SocketCAN driver is easy to install. To the application, it appears as can0. Programming can be done in Python or C.