Honda's CEATEC booth displaying fuel cell vehicles and proposing future smart communities on the theme of "connecting"

It is held in Chiba · Makuhari Messe in the period from Wednesday, October 7, 2015 to October 10 (Saturday)CEATEC JAPAN 2015"Several automobile manufacturers are exhibiting booths. Among them, "Honda will be connected"Honda booth designed with the theme of" Honda booth "introduces the concept of" making "electricity," using "and" connecting "by supplying electricity to communities and homes and facilities, and if Honda It is said that the form of the smart community is proposed, so I decided to look.

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The CEATEC booth where Honda is exhibiting is like this. A car is hanging on and a colorful light bulb is hanging. The large building over there is shaped like a generator, and it seems that the whole booth is "connected" with electric energy.


There was a pure white car in front of the booth, the most noticeable place. But here is not CEATEC venue, it can not be an ordinary car.


This car was the "FCV concept" of EV (Electric Vehicle) equipped with a "fuel cell" that generates electricity using hydrogen as a fuel. The FCV conceptIt was announced in November 2014In addition to traveling by generating electricity from hydrogen using a small fuel cell stack mounted inside a hood of a vehicle, as a feature of a fuel cell vehicle, to apply it as a small "generator" by applying the mechanism of power generation It is said that there is the advantage of being able to do.


The power generated by the FCV concept is converted to electric power that can be used for general electric appliances etc. through the external power feeder "Power Exporter 9000" placed beside the vehicle. This Power Exporter 9000 is CEATEC 2015 this timeThe world's first showIt has become.


The Power Exporter 9000 rectifies the DC power output from the FCV concept with an inverter and converts it into three types of power of 100 V AC and single phase 100 V / 200 V, and its capacity is 3 kVA, 100 A AC, AA With 6 kVATotal 9 kVA (9 kW)There are also things. It is surprising to say that we can clearly cover the electricity of 3 kVA required for ordinary households, and also cover business air conditioners and cooking equipment reasonably.


IH cookers, hair dryers, electric kettles etc that can consume large electric power can also afford to spare ......


It can also be used as a power supply of the quality required for medical equipment as it is located on the left of the picture. It seems to have a high ability of being able to cope well with treatment and care of injured persons as well as utilization as an emergency power source in the event of a disaster.


When using, connect the outlet to the panel in this way to supply power. "Why is it OK with medical equipment?" I heard that the kimo is in the inverter that produces the exchange. Besides automobiles and motorcycles, Honda has developed a variety of equipment using engines, and has a long history in the field of small generators. The inverter technology that was cultivated there is applied, and the waveform of the AC power supply that is generated has a form which is beautiful than what is generated at the general power station. When asking without thinking "Do not you think that audio mania is silent if it is such a beautiful power supply, the person in charge who explained, was laughing.


Hydrogen used as the fuel for the FCV concept can be produced as much as possible by placing a "hydrogen gas filling station" capable of generating such small hydrogen generation + filling if there is water and sunlight. With this filling station, FCV concept, and Power Exporter 9000, even if the power supply network is interrupted due to a disaster, it is possible to secure electric power without interruption. (In fact, supply is stopped while charging FCV concept with hydrogen)


The building rising beside the FCV concept imitates the form of Power Exporter 9000. Among them ...


The history of small generators that Honda has developed so far was exhibited. The history is about 50 years old.


The first model "E 40", Sony'sMicro TVIt was developed for. It seems that it was not actually marketed, but it was later improved and was mass-produced with the model name E80, E100. It is surprising that it is nothing surprising because it is said to have built a compact four-stroke engine with a displacement of 21.2 cc in the body that can be carried around.


Even after that, development continued all the time, we can generate electricity with cassette gas cylinder "Enepo EU 9 iGB"The technology has been handed down to models such as. Honda, a car and motorbike maker, was also a generator manufacturer at the same time.


Although the automobile industry is said to be fused with home appliances due to the appearance of hybrid cars and EVs, it was content that such a flow can be felt when watching the Honda booth.