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What actually moves a fuel cell powered car?

I am going to sum up the information that I already know about fuel cell powered car. What I need is for someone to correct me if I am wrong.Ok, from what I know these fuel cells generate electricity. They generate electricity by combining Hydrogen and oxygen. Which produces a by product of water and heat. Then the electricity that is generated is then used power electric motor which does the actual work of moving the car.If this info is correct, then it leads me to my next question. Could you power a electric car ,that is either factory or converted, using a fuel cell.

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You are correct. Whether you could power a car depends on how much power your fuel cell puts out and how much power the car needs.
theoretically, yes. Just replace the batteries with fuel cells. Really, fuel cells are kind of like glorified batteries. The problem is, we're never going to have hydrogen fuel-cell powered cars (despite the fact that everybody's talking about them), because we're never going to have hydrogen refueling stations.
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Yes, it is being done to a limited extent:

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