“New fuel cell to give hydrogen cars 2,000 km of range”

Elektroauto-News.net, the German e-mobility outlet, took a close technical look in November 2022 — “New fuel cell to give hydrogen cars 2,000 km of range”. The report highlights what the ceramic cell changes in everyday vehicle operation: no humidification, no freezing in winter, waste heat usable for heating.

Those properties follow from the design: the cell is solid-state ceramic through and through — a 38-mm micro-tube whose nanocrystalline electrolyte conducts ions at an operating temperature of 450–600 °C. Nothing burns and nothing moves inside the cell; fuel is converted directly into electricity, at about 20 dB.

For kraftwerk this piece stood out because it dealt with the practical questions drivers actually ask, not just the headline range. The basis is the same public record: the granted patent held jointly with Volkswagen and five years of proof-of-concept work, including a test vehicle that covered 2,000 km on a single tank.

The everyday figures live on this site today: refueling in about 2 minutes, up to about 1,500 km per SURFBOARD tank module, 38 models in the vehicle catalogue. The technology page explains the cell layer by layer, and the FAQ covers fuels, refueling and range. The original article is linked from this page.