Hydrogen Cars, Vehicles and Infrastructure
This is an update from the news on February 7, 2012 that Suzuki and Intelligent Energy had formed a partnership called SMILE FC System Corporation. Under this arrangement each will have a 50/50 stake in the corporation. The announcement today, is that SMILE FC has already produced some tangible results over the past year of […]
Continue ReadingThis isn’t the first time I’ve talked about South Africa and their intentions on using their vast platinum supplies inside of fuel cells. But, back in 2010 the intention was to use that platinum inside of stationary fuel cells and today South Africa has modified their position to include light duty vehicles as well. According […]
Continue ReadingGregory B. recently placed a link on the Hydrogen Cars Now Facebook page to a Whitehouse.gov petition web page. The petition asks President Obama’s administration to set aside more funding for hydrogen fueled vehicles. Here is the full text of the petition: we petition the obama administration to: Put more funding into the development, safety […]
Continue ReadingCalifornia Governor Jerry Brown has issued an executive order (B-16-2012) for growing the market for zero emission vehicles (ZEV) including hydrogen fuel cell cars and other vehicles. The ZEV’s included in the executive order are hydrogen fuel cell vehicles, battery electric vehicles and plug-in hybrid electric vehicles. The target is to get 1.5 million ZEV’s […]
Continue ReadingTwo researchers from the University of Delaware, Erik Koepf and Michael Giuliano spent a couple of months in Switzerland working on a novel sunlight-driven water-splitting device. The initial tests proved that solar fuel (aka hydrogen) could be produced using sunlight, mirrors (no smoke), a reactant and water. According to the University of Delaware, “Koepf’s reactor […]
Continue ReadingHydrogen car proponents in the United Kingdom have been making plans to put 1.5 million H2 drivers on the British roads by 2030. According to the H2UKMobility plan, hydrogen fuel cell cars will start hitting the streets of Great Britain in 2015 and will see slow sales to early adopters up until 2020. At this […]
Continue ReadingIt’s no secret that the market for fuel cell forklifts and other materials handling units have been red hot for the past 2 years in the USA. Several thousand units have been either deployed or ordered over that time period. Knowing this, British company ITM Power wants to get in on the emerging European Union […]
Continue ReadingUniversity of Buffalo researchers have discovered that hydrogen on demand may be accomplished simply by adding water to nano-particle sized silica. The researchers believe they can produce more hydrogen using this method that other common methods such as using aluminum. According to the University of Buffalo, “In a series of experiments, the scientists created spherical […]
Continue ReadingFirst of all, many thanks to Dave for posting a link in last week’s blog post about the DOE 2012 Annual Report to an article about Ford, Nissan and Daimler joining forces. Because this is such a big story I would like to talk more about it today. Three of the largest automotive companies (Ford, […]
Continue ReadingThe DOE Hydrogen and Fuel Cells Program 2012 Annual Progress Report is encouraging on many different levels especially in light of the recent economy, cutbacks and unemployment rate in general. I will attempt to outline some of the main points of this document as they apply to hydrogen cars and vehicles. According to the DOE […]
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