Definitely this is the future, methanol liquid fuel to fuel methanol fuel cell (and then electric motor without battery with way longer range and "rechargable" by refueling liquid methanol in just a minute just like any diesel engine. This is the future, better than "normal hydrogen" because methanol is a liquid fuel directly and easy derived from green hydrogen and way better usable than hydrogen because no need compression pressure storage and or ultra low temperature needed. Methanol liquid room temperature fuel is just a drop replacements in any gas station with little modification and same happens even with combustion engine but obviously fuel cell Ev gives more efficiency .
You forgot one important issue. In order to manufacture the methanol, you need CO2 besides the hydrogen. The CO2 must be green too, namely biogenic.This means that you must suck the CO2 from the air or to capture it from some burned biomass. The CO2 atmospheric concentration is very low (400 ppm) so you need a concentrated flue gas in order to be efficient.Not so easy though.
I agree besides the fact that for short-medium range (say, less than 100 km per day) electric vehicles with decently small batteries (~20-25 kWh of capacity) are still optimal for private passenger transportation. For everything else, i.e. long range private transport, freight transportation, airplanes and sea shipping (where batteries are not possible or practical) a methanol fuel cell propulsion is the way to go
@@dalsenovthere is a much easier way, as thoroughly described by the Swedish university of Lund, consisting of biomass gasification and conversion of CO and H2 in liquid methanol (with or without external hydrogen input). ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-g1FD9ymSQeU.htmlsi=knvCFy5cMovKzV0Q That way you convert 60% to 80% of the energy of (dry) biomass into methanol, so that you can produce one tonn of methanol from one tonn of dry biomass to replace in a methanol fuel cell one tonn of petrol/Diesel fuel
Previously they've showed 5kW fuell cell which weights around 70kg and they've stated that makes 12,5km on liter of methanol/water mix. They've also showed some applications like moded Nissan e-NV200 Hybrid with theirs 5kW fuell cell and 80 liter tank which should make 800km. Roland Gumper's methanol sport car also uses their fuell cells probably...
