Netherlands: Future fuel cell car will provide for drinking water

At Delft Technical University scientists and entrepreneurs work on the concept of “The Car as Power Plant”. We use our cars only 5% of the time, so when parked hydrogen fuel cell cars can produce electricity from hydrogen. 500 parked cars should be able to deliver electricity for 50.000 houses. The hydrogen is required from (bio)gas or electricity. Besides producing electricity when parked, the cars produces useful ‘waste products’ like heat and demi water. So in the end, we might “drink” from our parked cars.

The Car as Power Plant is developed in The Green Village in Delft, a sustainable, learning and recreational environment where technological en social innovations are carried out in the next ten years. Ad van Wijk is convinced that we can transfer our present energy system in to a completely new circular system with fully renewable energy sources based on electricity from solar en wind, combined with a fuel cell based transport system. The experiments in Delft have to prove him right.