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A fuel-cell vehicle is an electric vehicle. In a battery-electric vehicle, a battery converts chemical potential energy to electricity, which drives an electric motor. In a fuel-cell vehicle, a fuel cell converts chemical potential energy into electricity, which dries an electric motor.


21 posted on 07/01/2015 3:15:48 PM PDT by USFRIENDINVICTORIA
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Curious. Doesn’t a fuel cell system have a battery, too? Make sense to use the deceleration/braking to charge the battery and the fuel cell to charge it and both to drive the car.

After all, electricity is electricity.


25 posted on 07/01/2015 3:34:18 PM PDT by dhs12345
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