Hydrogen Cars, Vehicles and Infrastructure
Several years ago I talked about Mike Strizki building the first hydrogen home in New Jersey. Mr. Strizki also has a prototype hydrogen car in his garage. But, since service called, Strizki, CTO of The Essential Element, decided to help Haiti with hydrogen power. The Hydra system that Strizki brought to Haiti will be powered […]
Continue ReadingRE Hydrogen Ltd of Great Britain has received an award of $39,000 USD from the Technology Strategy Board, UK to scale up their electrolyzer into a commercial unit that can supply hydrogen to a fuel cell vehicle. The current electrolyzer prototype is 13-percent more efficient and costs 93-percent less than other comparable electrolyzers on the […]
Continue ReadingThe U. S. Hydrogen Highway system started in California. One of the reasons is that California is known to have some of the most stringent vehicle emissions standards in the country (as well as pollution from cars). So, in order to battle pollution from cars, California has turned to alternative fuel vehicles in a big […]
Continue ReadingIn my last blog post I talked about how China was charging forward with fuel cell vehicles. At the Austria Tech Week event held at the Expo Shanghai 2010 in China, a company called AVL rolled out its Fuel Cell Commuter (FCC). The AVL FCC is basically a battery electric car that uses a hydrogen […]
Continue ReadingAs the U. S. has faltered in auto sales across the board recently, China still continues in strong production and sales. In fact, China is so strong that some are wondering if there is a bubble looming for this country of 1.3 billion people. But, what has been under-reported by the mainstream media is that […]
Continue ReadingI’ve talked about high temperature cracking of water to create hydrogen before. I’ve also talked about adding a catalyst such as aluminum or magnesium to aid the cracking of water into hydrogen. Now a Japanese company, FUKAI Environmental Research Institute has found a way to do both and do so at low cost. According to […]
Continue ReadingIn an interesting twist of events, the same day that SunHydro announces its grand opening of the East Coast Hydrogen Highway, Shell Oil has announced the closing of its hydrogen fueling stations on the East Coast. Is this due to coincidence, competition or something else? I’ve talked about SunHydro’s East Coast Hydrogen Highway before and […]
Continue ReadingWell there have been some wacky designs in the car world as any trade show will tell you. Concept cars are pretty prevalent there. But, concept buses are another matter altogether. This futuristic concept bus was invented by designer Peter Simon. The Credo E-Bone is powered by a combination of hydrogen fuel cells and lithium […]
Continue ReadingBMW has been developing hydrogen cars since 1979. Their latest vehicle is the dual fuel BMW Hydrogen 7 which can run on either compressed H2 gas or gasoline with the press of a button. But, what has been missing from most of the major automaker’s lineup is the use of hydrogen fuel cell forklifts at […]
Continue ReadingSuppose that your near future hydrogen car could be filled with diesel fuel, reformed into H2 then run through a fuel cell? Now, suppose you can fill up your car with biodiesel fuel and do the same. This is what the folks at Nordic Power Systems of Norway and SAFCell Incorporated of California are thinking, […]
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