The Safety of Fuel Cell Vehicles

Abstract

To establish codes and standards for fuel cell vehicle safety Japan Automobile Research Institute (JARI) has been evaluating safety issue about hydrogen fuel cell vehicles such as hydrogen diffusion property in the air, ignition, flame propagation released from high pressure cylinders and so on. Although hydrogen is thought to be very dangerous gas, these results shows that, in some cases, hydrogen is rather safe compare with exisiting energy sources such as gasoline and compressed natural gas.