page_title: Fuel cell
section_title: Boats
hierarchical_section_title: Fuel cell / Applications / Fuel cell electric vehicles (FCEVs) / Boats
caption_attribution_description: English: This is a photo of the world's first certified Fuel Cell Boat (HYDRA) realised by Christian Machens. It was taken in the Karl Heine Chanal in Leipzig, Germany in the year 2000. Deutsch: Foto des weltweit ersten zertifizierten Fuel Cell Boat (HYDRA), realisiert von Christian Machens. Auf dem Karl-Heine-Kanal in Leipzig, Deutschland, fotografiert im Jahre 2000.
context_page_description: A fuel cell is an electrochemical cell that converts the chemical energy of a fuel and an oxidizing agent into electricity through a pair of redox reactions. Fuel cells are different from most batteries in requiring a continuous source of fuel and oxygen to sustain the chemical reaction, whereas in a battery the chemical energy usually comes from metals and their ions or oxides that are commonly already present in the battery, except in flow batteries. Fuel cells can produce electricity continuously for as long as fuel and oxygen are supplied.
  The first fuel cells were invented by Sir William Grove in 1838. The first commercial use of fuel cells came more than a century later following the invention of the hydrogen–oxygen fuel cell by Francis Thomas Bacon in 1932. The alkaline fuel cell, also known as the Bacon fuel cell after its inventor, has been used in NASA space programs since the mid-1960s to generate power for satellites and space capsules. Since then, fuel cells have been used in many other applications. Fuel cells are used for primary and backup power for commercial, industrial and residential buildings and in remote or inaccessible areas.
context_section_description: The world's first fuel-cell boat HYDRA used an AFC system with 6.5 kW net output. Iceland has committed to converting its vast fishing fleet to use fuel cells to provide auxiliary power by 2015 and, eventually, to provide primary power in its boats. Amsterdam recently introduced its first fuel cell-powered boat that ferries people around the city's canals.
caption: The world's first certified fuel cell boat (HYDRA), in Leipzig/Germany
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