Vehicle equipment

Vehicle equipment

Industry: Automotive

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stack

Automotive; Vehicle equipment

Individual fuel cells connected in series.

A mechanical battery that stores kinetic energy. A flywheel is essentially a spinning wheel with a motor. Flywheels can be more responsive than chemical batteries, and they are less susceptible to ...

friction coefficient

Automotive; Vehicle equipment

A measure of how much force is needed to overcome friction just enough that one material will slide across another.

fuel cell

Automotive; Vehicle equipment

An electromechanical "engine" (no moving parts) that converts the chemical energy of hydrogen and oxygen into electricity without combustion; the only by-product is water. The principal components of ...

fuel flexible

Automotive; Vehicle equipment

Ability of a vehicle to operate on either (a) a wide range of fuels blends (e.g., blends of gasoline and alcohol) or (b) two different fuels carried aboard the vehicle (e.g., gasoline and compressed ...

fuel processor

Automotive; Vehicle equipment

Device used to remove the hydrogen from common fuels (like natural gas, propane, and gasoline) and less-common ones (like methanol and ethanol) and convert it to hydrogen for use in fuel-cell-powered ...

fuel reformer

Automotive; Vehicle equipment

An alternative to storing hydrogen fuel in fuel-cell-powered vehicles. No infrastructure currently exists for delivering hydrogen fuel to consumers, and hydrogen-storage technologies are so large ...