ITM Power signs hydrogen fuel contract with Honda (UK)
11 July 2017
ITM Power has signed a fuel contract with Honda (UK), which will purchase hydrogen at £10/kg (US$12.91/kg). The contract covers fuel dispensed across ITM Power’s hydrogen refueling network. The refueling network has been financially supported by Innovate UK, Office for Low Emission Vehicles (OLEV) and the Fuel Cells and Hydrogen Joint Undertaking (FCH JU).
(The Honda Fuel Cell Clarity has a hydrogen tank capacity of 5.46 kg.)
This is the seventeenth fuel supply contract for refueling fuel cell electric vehicles ITM Power has signed. Honda joins Toyota GB PLC, Hyundai Motor UK Ltd, Commercial Group, Skanska, UlemCo Ltd, Arval UK Ltd, UK Government Car Service, Arcola Energy, Johnson Matthey, Europcar, The Science Museum, JCB, Anglo American, Green Tomato Cars, Yorkshire Ambulance Service and Northern Gas Networks as a fuel customer.
ITM Power is currently rolling out a network of 10 hydrogen refueling stations in the UK of which 4 are now open for public access. Each station produces hydrogen on site via ITM Power’s rapid response electrolyzer system, and can refuel a fuel cell electric car in three minutes, providing 300 to 420 miles of clean emission driving, without compromise to drivers’ normal refueling routine.
!2.91$ a kilo and one kilo is the same quantity as one gallon. This is horrendous and they call that the future of energy. Also it prove that green electricity is costly and if ever they gonna want to ramp the hydrogen quantity they gonna see higher cost and there is no easy way to store this hydrogen when there will be excess green electricity. Also the fuelcell car is more costly than a gas car. This is the result of green car congress work over the years.
Posted by: gorr | 11 July 2017 at 04:37 PM
Currently, H2 and FCEVs are more costly the gasoline-diesel and ICEVs, specially when all damages created by pollution from ICEVs are not considered.
By 2025/2030 or so, mass produced FCEVs will not cost much more than equivalent ICEVs.
Quick fill, extended range FCEVs cannot and should not be compared with current limited range, slow charging BEVs.
Posted by: HarveyD | 11 July 2017 at 07:19 PM
Good to see more prices for hydrogen published.
A fuel cell car gets about twice the mileage from a kg of H2 as an equivalent car gets from a gallon of gas, so the effective price of H2 is $6.45/gal using ITM's price above.
According to BNEF, long-range electric cars will be cheaper than ICEs by 2030. The number of announcements of new battery-electric and plug-in hybrid models from all manufacturers vs the relatively small number of announced FCVs give the public a good sense of what will be available for sale over the next decade.
Posted by: electric-car-insider.com | 13 July 2017 at 05:45 AM
Shell sells H2 for $10 per kg, $5 gasoline gallon equivalent. There are only about 20 stations in California, they need to pay off equipment investments.
More FCVs means more fuel and quicker payoff with lower prices over time. It takes less than $1 worth of natural gas to make a kilogram of H2.
Posted by: SJC | 18 July 2017 at 08:57 PM
That's the problem though. I've run the numbers and posted them here on GCC. No way for a H2 filling station to sell at a price anywhere near competitive with electricity, or even with gasoline for that matter.
The distribution and retail costs are very high.
Also, if you are going to start with natural gas as a feedstock, you haven't solved the carbon problem.
Posted by: electric-car-insider.com | 19 July 2017 at 08:53 AM
I doubt getting rid of NG to H2 reforming will solve any carbon problem considering the U.S. burns 300 million gallons of gasoline per DAY.
Posted by: SJC | 20 July 2017 at 07:52 AM