AT Cost – Materials/Metals Material costs for H-cars is decreasing Tollefson ’10 , Jeff. "Hydrogen Vehicles: Fuel of the Future?" Nature.com. Nature Publishing Group, 29 Apr. 2010. Web. 25 June 2012. <http://www.nature.com/news/2010/290410/full/4641262a.html>. PH Engineers also cutting back on the use of expensive catalysts. General Motors' fuel-cell assembly are uses grams of platinum to split electrons and protons from hydrogen the current roughly 80 atoms. At platinum price of US$60 per gram, this totals $4,800. General Motors officials say that about some But their next fuel cell will use less than 30 grams of platinum, thanks to using ever thinner coats of the metal. company's scientists are continuing to experiment with measures such as increasing the And the surface area of the catalyst Within a decade, they expect to get by introducing more texture at the nanoscale. platinum use to below 10 grams, which would make the fuel cells competitive with today's catalytic converters in terms of precious-metal use.
AT Cost – Materials/Metals Material costs for H-cars is decreasing Tollefson ’10 , Jeff. "Hydrogen Vehicles: Fuel of the Future?" Nature.com. Nature Publishing Group, 29 Apr. 2010. Web. 25 June 2012. <http://www.nature.com/news/2010/290410/full/4641262a.html>. PH Engineers are also cutting back on the use of expensive catalysts. General Motors' fuel-cell assembly uses roughly 80 grams of platinum to split electrons and protons from hydrogen atoms. At the current platinum price of about US$60 per gram, this totals some $4,800. But General Motors officials say that their next fuel cell will use less than 30 grams of platinum, thanks to using ever thinner coats of the metal. And the company's scientists are continuing to experiment with measures such as increasing the surface area of the catalyst by introducing more texture at the nanoscale. Within a decade, they expect to get platinum use to below 10 grams, which would make the fuel cells competitive with today's catalytic converters in terms of precious-metal use.
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