Hydrogen Cars, Vehicles and Infrastructure
The world’s first hydrogen canister exchange station for light electric vehicles (LEV’s) with fuel cells has been set up at the National Tsing-Hua University in Taiwan. In June 2010, I had talked about Asia Pacific fuel Cell Technologies, Ltd. (APFCT) taking a 620 mile test drive of their hydrogen-powered scooter around Taiwan. Now, APFCT has […]
Continue ReadingI’ve talked about the building of the Japanese Hydrogen Highway before and how this country that imports most of its raw materials could benefit by switching to using hydrogen cars. Now, it looks like Japan is getting serious about rolling out H2 vehicles by 2015. Japan will be using some of its lower grade hydrogen […]
Continue ReadingIn the year 2015 General Motors has stated that it plans to rollout several thousand fuel cell vehicles to showrooms in several different countries. Today, GM is taking a step in that direction. General Motors is now working on their next generation of fuel cell based upon the current HydroGen4 model. GM hopes to produce […]
Continue ReadingOver the past week and a half there has been a lot of news regarding hydrogen buses. So, I want to provide a summary to each story. The United Kingdom’s first hydrogen bus has been launched and will service London’s RV1 route. Seven more hydrogen powered buses will be added to the same route in […]
Continue ReadingLast March 2010, I had talked about the Hyundai Tucson iX35 FCEV rolling out at the Geneva Auto Show. The most recent news regarding this vehicle is that the prototype is now ready and will begin testing in 2011. The Tucson iX is an upgrade from the Hyundai Tucson FCEV with a 3rd generation fuel […]
Continue ReadingThe first Mercedes fuel cell vehicle (FCV) lease in the U. S. is going to Hollywood’s Executive Director of the Producers Guild of America. Mr. Vance Van Petten will be driving the Mercedes B-Class F-Cell FCV around the Hollywood Hills and beyond in Southern California. Now, it’s no secret that Hollywood types like the status […]
Continue ReadingI find the following information rather mind-boggling since it defies conventional wisdom. The first of which is that hydrogen doesn’t occur naturally on this planet, that it is bonded with other atoms and it has to be brutally ripped from those atoms in order to create pure H2. The second bit of conventional wisdom which […]
Continue ReadingFuel Cells 2000, a non-profit educational organization has come up with a head-to-head comparison of two FCVs (fuel cell vehicles), one PHEV (plug-in hybrid electric vehicle) and one BEV (battery electric vehicle) to see if public perception is accurate. Because the Nissan Leaf BEV and Chevy Volt PHEV have garnered so much media attention in […]
Continue ReadingIn addition to grain silos on a farm, passersby may soon find H2Silos as well. The design concept basically uses a silo design with a solar panel on top that splits water in the center to create hydrogen and oxygen. The hydrogen can be used to refuel hydrogen powered tractors and other farm (and home) […]
Continue ReadingIn May 2010 I had talked about how General Motors and The Gas Company in Hawaii were teaming up to bring hydrogen cars and refueling infrastructure to the island of Oahu. In December 2008, I had talked about the Hydrogen Fueling Station Cluster Model proposed by the Rochester Institute of Technology for putting up fueling […]
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