Hydrogen Cars, Vehicles and Infrastructure
In July 2006 I talked about how a Hawaiian hydrogen economy was in development. Depending upon who you ask, Hawaii imports 90 to 100-percent of its petroleum from outside of the islands. In November 2006, I had talked about how Hawaii’s first hydrogen fueling station was opening at Hickam Air Force Base that would be […]
Continue ReadingA team of university students from Polyjule of Polytech Nantes in France won the Shell Eco-Marathon hosted in Lausitz, Germany. The winning hydrogen fuel cell car achieved an incredible 11,516 mpge (miles per gallon equivalent). And while these numbers do seem incredible the 2005 Swiss ETH Zurich PAC-Car II still holds the record of 15,212 […]
Continue ReadingHydrogen safety is a concerned for everyone along the chain of hydrogen production, distribution, fueling stations and H2 fueled vehicles. At the 38th International Exhibition of Inventions of Geneva in Switzerland, a research team from Taiwan has won a gold medal for inventing a semiconductor microchip sensor that detects hydrogen leaks. Scientists at the Department […]
Continue ReadingAt the National Hydrogen Association (NHA) Conference and Expo in Long Beach, California this week, I had the pleasure of meeting Robert Friedland, President and CEO of Proton Energy, Michael Grey, President of SunHydro and Tom Sullivan, founder and chairman of both Proton Energy and SunHydro. Now, in January 2010, I had already talked about […]
Continue ReadingToyota has announced that by the year 2015 they will be selling hydrogen fuel cell vehicles for around $50,000 each, cutting the costs from half a decade earlier by about 90-percent. And not only this, but Toyota has stated that at $50,000 apiece the hydrogen fuel cars will make the company a profit. This week, […]
Continue ReadingLast week I had talked about the upcoming National Hydrogen Association (NHA) Hydrogen Conference and Expo that is going on this week. I grabbed my media pass (which it turns out was unnecessary since it was Public Day) and ran down to check out some of the hydrogen fueled cars that I had never driven […]
Continue ReadingYesterday I talked about the possibility of hydrogen forklifts being the first commercial production fuel cell vehicles. Today I would like to follow up on the boom in use of hydrogen fuel cell forklifts in the everyday workplace and in our military. First, in the food warehouses sector a company called United Natural Foods, Incorporated […]
Continue ReadingAre the first commercial vehicles actually hydrogen powered forklifts and lift palette trucks? And are the first commercial H2 fueling stations the hydrogen stations that power these vehicles? If you’ve followed this blog at all, you know that I’ve talked about hydrogen fuel cell powered forklifts for large warehouses for the past 4 years now. […]
Continue ReadingResearcher Jeffrey Long and his colleagues at UC Berkeley have discovered a cost effective way to make hydrogen from seawater using a molybdenum-oxo catalyst and a mercury electrode. This is not Long’s first foray into H2 either as back in 2005, he was working on developing hydrogen storage materials for use in cars. In September […]
Continue ReadingOkay, usually I don’t like to toot my own horn (or blog twice in one day), but this is a special occasion. This post marks the 1,000th post for this hydrogen fuel cars and vehicles blog. I started this blog on April 5, 2006 about a year after I had started the main website. Before […]
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