Hydrogen Cars, Vehicles and Infrastructure
Japan’s Suzuki Motor Corporation and the UK’s Intelligent Energy have been collaborating for years on building demonstration fuel cell vehicles. Two of the most successful of the partnership’s products have been in creating fuel cell motorcycles and scooters namely the Suzuki Crosscage motorcycle and Suzuki Burgman fuel cell scooter. In 2005, the Suzuki Ionis hydrogen […]
Continue ReadingSeveral years ago I heard from Steve Williams with his proposal that the automotive parts and repair chain Pep Boys lead the charge in converting vehicles with internal combustion engines to run on hydrogen and providing H2 fueling stations at the stores themselves. This unique idea had piqued my interest and now I’ve heard from […]
Continue ReadingOne of the problems with rolling out hydrogen cars and a fueling infrastructure in the short term is coming up with cheap, lightweight and low pressure hydrogen fuel storage tanks. The hydrogen fuel tanks that are available now are either heavy and expensive such as metal hydride tanks or they are under high pressure from […]
Continue ReadingOver the past year I’ve exchanged a few emails with Jonas Grooten of HyEngine Solutions. Instead of working on fuel cells, HyEngine converts vehicles with internal combustion engines to run on hydrogen. Here is what Jonas Grooten had to say in his last email: “My colleague, Olivier Vanhaelen, asked me to give you an update […]
Continue ReadingThe U. S. Department of Energy (DOE) is running a promotion called “America’s Next Top Energy Innovator Challenge.” This is part of the Startup America initiative that makes it easier for small start-up companies to use technology developed by the DOE’s 17 national laboratories plus the Y-12 National Security Complex. On the front of the […]
Continue ReadingOne of the last times I had talked about Middle Tennessee State University (MTSU) and their inventive professor Dr. Clifton Ricketts was in April 2007. At that time Dr. Ricketts was figuring out how to break his own land-speed record for hydrogen cars at the Bonneville Salt Flats in Utah. This time, however, the goal […]
Continue ReadingThe last time I had talked about the Town of Hempstead (part of Long Island, NY) was back in February, 2009. At that point they were installing their first hydrogen fueling station and fueling up a GM Equinox Fuel Cell vehicle which was part of the automaker’s Project Driveway program. But, now the Town of […]
Continue ReadingA UK firm called RE Hydrogen has invented a hydrogen compressor that is 30-percent the cost of others on the market. This means that not only can the compressors be smaller but the complimentary electrolyzers can be smaller and less costly as well. According to The Engineer, “Small-scale hydrogen production is a potential way to […]
Continue ReadingIn September 2008, I had first talked about South Africa trying to market platinum for fuel cells worldwide. You see, South Africa mines about 80-percent of the world’s supply of platinum and would like to continue selling this expensive metal long into the future. But, it hasn’t been until recently that South Africa has actually […]
Continue ReadingI’ve talked many times over the past years about the German H2Mobility plan. Germany and the surrounding countries have been planning a European Union Hydrogen Highway system for the past decade. Part of this H2 highway system has included the United Kingdom. Well, now the UK has decided to get more focused on the 2015 […]
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