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The Panda Hydrogen is a prototype
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based on the
Fiat Panda The Fiat Panda is a city car manufactured and marketed by Fiat Automobiles, Fiat since 1980, currently in its third generation. The first generation Panda, introduced in 1980 as the Mk1, was a Car body configurations#Two-box design, two-box, thr ...
introduced in 2006.


Overview

The fuel, gaseous
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, is stored in underfloor
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s at 350 bar. A Nuvera Fuel Cells "Andromeda II" fuel cell stack generates energy to power an
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directly, i.e. without a
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. Panda Hydrogen produces power and it can achieve top speed of . Operating range is over in urban driving.


History

In 2001 was introduced first version of Fiats's fuel cell type vehicle
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Elettra H2 Fuel Cell, after that came Seicento Hydrogen.


See also

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List of fuel cell vehicles This is a list of fuel cell vehicles (FCV), or fuel cell electric vehicles (FCEV), that use a fuel cell to power an electric drive system. For Hydrogen internal combustion engine vehicles (HICEV) see the List of hydrogen internal combustion engi ...


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Fiat Panda Hydrogen Information
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