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Exploring the potential of hydrogen in decarbonizing China's light-duty vehicle market

Journal Article · · International Journal of Hydrogen Energy
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  1. Aramco Research Center-Detroit, Novi, MI (United States); Illinois Institute of Technology, Chicago, IL (United States)
  2. Oak Ridge National Lab. (ORNL), Knoxville, TN (United States)
  3. Univ. of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, IL (United States)
  4. West Virginia Univ., Morgantown, WV (United States)
  5. Aramco Research Center-Detroit, Novi, MI (United States)
  6. Argonne National Lab. (ANL), Lemont, IL (United States)
  7. Illinois Institute of Technology, Chicago, IL (United States)
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The Chinese government has pledged to achieve overall carbon neutrality by 2060. Currently, the transportation sector contributes to about 10% of total greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions in China. Hence, China has created a well-defined energy vehicle development strategy to reduce GHG emissions from the transportation sector, further expanding into hydrogen vehicle technologies. In this paper, the Transportation Energy Analysis Model (TEAM) investigates the potential of hydrogen internal combustion engine vehicles (H2-ICEVs) and fuel cell vehicles (FCEVs) as a reliable pathway towards the government's aspiration of carbon neutrality in the transportation sector. According to TEAM, by adopting FCEVs and H2-ICEVs in the vehicle market, hydrogen demand could reach 25% of the total light-duty transportation energy demand in 2050. Consequently, this will lead to an annual reduction of more than 35 million tons GHG compared to only counting on the electrification pathway in the decarbonization task. Besides, FCEVs would take longer to penetrate the light-duty vehicle market compared to H2-ICEVs, as the current fuel cell technology still requires much improvement to attain a competitive vehicle cost of production.
Research Organization:
Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL), Oak Ridge, TN (United States)
Sponsoring Organization:
USDOE
Grant/Contract Number:
AC02-06CH11357; AC05-00OR22725
OSTI ID:
1895236
Alternate ID(s):
OSTI ID: 2377767
Journal Information:
International Journal of Hydrogen Energy, Journal Name: International Journal of Hydrogen Energy Journal Issue: 86 Vol. 47; ISSN 0360-3199
Publisher:
ElsevierCopyright Statement
Country of Publication:
United States
Language:
English

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