Hydrogen Cars, Vehicles and Infrastructure
Last week I had talked about Hyundai and Hydrogenics ramping up the Scandinavian Hydrogen Highway Partnership (SHHP). This week I have received an email from the Zero Emission Resource Organisation asking if anyone would like to lease their Mazda RX-8 Hydrogen Car. Here is the email: Hello to all of you. Let me give you […]
Continue ReadingHyundai-Kia has signed a memorandum of understanding to bring their hydrogen fueled vehicles to the Scandinavian Hydrogen Highway Partnership (SHHP) plus the Icelandic New Energy project which includes the countries of Norway, Sweden, Denmark and Iceland. Mikael Sloth from SHHP states, “This MoU represents a significant step towards the ambition of ensuring the Nordic region […]
Continue ReadingTwo new discoveries could be breakthroughs that make hydrogen fuel cheaper and H2 fuel cells cheaper as well. Scientists as the U. S. DOE’s Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (LBNL) have discovered that disordered titanium at a nano-scale can be used as a robust photocatalyst for creating hydrogen from water using sunlight. According to LBNL, the […]
Continue ReadingIn May 2010, Toyota declared that they will be able to build and sell a fuel cell vehicle (FCV) for $50,000 by 2015. This remark was met with a lot of criticism and disbelief. Now, Daimler has also jumped on the bandwagon saying that they will be able to build and sell their FCVs for […]
Continue ReadingIntelligent Energy is once again showing off their ENV fuel cell motorbike and this time at the Advanced Manufacturing Growth Summit in the UK. In fact, Intelligent Energy is no rookie when it comes to showing off their demonstration vehicles. They have been showing off the ENV for 6 years now. Intelligent Energy partnered with […]
Continue ReadingI’ve talked about the merits of using ammonia borane several times in the past as a hydrogen-rich chemical compound that may one day be used to refuel H2 cars. Now, a company called Cella Energy is using ammonia borane (NH3BH3) plus a process called coaxial electrospinning or electrospraying to either supply pure hydrogen to fuel […]
Continue ReadingWhile the Nissan Leaf and Chevy Volt and other BEVs and PHEVs are grabbing all the headlines and getting all the glory hydrogen is quietly making headway around the globe. For instance, in Japan, a country that already has a hydrogen highway program already in place and is expanding this rapidly they have just launched […]
Continue ReadingEvery once in a while someone will contact me with a unique idea where I feel compelled to publish it on this blog. Kim E. referenced an earlier post about hydrogen cooperatives and wanted to put her own spin on this idea. Kim E. “Co-op fuel stations, Co-op farm supply, farms, farms use the co-ops […]
Continue ReadingThe chemical engineers at California Institute of Technology (Caltech) in Pasadena, California, which is also the academic home to NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL), have been doing a little home cooking recently to produce hydrogen. In fact, what the engineers have developed is a modified self-cleaning over with an intense magnifying glass that uses solar […]
Continue ReadingSome will say that the future hydrogen car, the Chase 2053 flies under the face of science fiction. And they may be right. But this future flight of fancy opens up the doors of what hydrogen cars could look like in another 40 years. The Chase 2053, which drives and flies using a hydrogen-powered jet […]
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