Kwaxelwa ukuba iFord ibhengeze nge-9 kaMeyi ukuba izakuvavanya uhlobo lwayo lweeseli ze-hydrogen zeselfowuni ye-Electric Transit (E-Transit) ye-prototype yezithuthi ukuze ibone ukuba bangabonelela na ngokhetho olusebenzayo lokukhupha i-zero kubathengi abathutha imithwalo enzima kumgama omde.
I-Ford iza kukhokela i-consortium kwiprojekthi yeminyaka emithathu ekwabandakanya i-BP kunye ne-Ocado, ivenkile yase-UK ye-intanethi kunye neqela lezobuchwepheshe. I-Bp iya kugxila kwi-hydrogen kunye neziseko zophuhliso. Le projekthi ixhaswa ngemali yi-Advanced Propulsion Centre, intsebenziswano phakathi kukarhulumente wase-UK kunye neshishini lemoto.
U-Tim Slatter, usihlalo weFord UK, uthe kwisiteyitimenti: "I-Ford ikholelwa ukuba usetyenziso oluphambili lweeseli zamafutha kungenzeka ukuba lube kweyona modeli inkulu kwaye inzima kakhulu yemoto yokuthengisa ukuqinisekisa ukuba isithuthi sisebenza ngaphandle kokukhupha izinto ezingcolisayo ngelixa sihlangabezana neemfuno eziphezulu zemihla ngemihla zabathengi. UMthetho wokuNcitshiswa kwexabiso lentengo (IRA).”
Ngelixa uninzi lweemoto ze-injini zokutsha zangaphakathi zehlabathi, iiveni ezithatha ixesha elifutshane kunye neelori kusenokwenzeka ukuba zitshintshwe ziimoto zombane ezisulungekileyo kule minyaka ingama-20 izayo, abaxhasi beeseli zamafutha e-hydrogen kunye nabaqhubi beemoto ezithatha ixesha elide baphikisa ukuba izithuthi zombane ezisulungekileyo zinemiqobo, njengobunzima beebhetri, ixesha elinokulithatha ukuzilayisha ngaphezulu kwegridi.
Izithuthi ezifakwe iiseli zamafutha e-hydrogen (i-hydrogen ixutywe neoksijini ukuvelisa amanzi namandla ukunika amandla ibhetri) zinokugaywa ngemizuzu kwaye zibe noluhlu olude kuneemodeli zombane ezisulungekileyo.
Kodwa ukusasazeka kweeseli ze-hydrogen fuel kujongana nemiceli mngeni emikhulu, kubandakanya ukunqongophala kwezikhululo zokuzalisa kunye ne-hydrogen eluhlaza ukubanika amandla ngokusebenzisa imithombo yamandla avuselelekayo.
Ixesha lokuposa: May-11-2023