Hydrogen Cars, Vehicles and Infrastructure
According to Bloomberg, Toyota Motor Corporation could face a $1 billion charge in trying to comply with the clean air rules set by the California Air Resources Board (CARB) starting 2012. In March 2008, I had talked about how CARB had officially chosen to promote plug-in hybrid electric vehicles in California over hydrogen and electric […]
Continue ReadingNormally, I would write a longer blog post and blather on about something I find interesting about hydrogen that is newsworthy. But, I want to keep this blog short so that you have time to check out the Hydrogen Road Tour 2009 Travelog put together in blog style by the participants in the tour. Along […]
Continue ReadingThe San Francisco International Airport (SFO) is planning to build a public hydrogen fueling station to provide fuel for airport shuttle buses and San Francisco Municipal Transportation Authority hybrid buses. The California Air Resources Board (CARB) is partially funding this project with $1.7 million. Linde North America, one of the largest builders of hydrogen stations […]
Continue ReadingNow, that Jesse James has finished with Donald Trump’s reality TV show “The Apprentice” he’s moving back into what he knows best, fast vehicles. Apparently the Green Scream from last year fell short of expectations, so now James is onto another project. Jesse James is the owner of West Coast Choppers and is also the […]
Continue ReadingThe 5th International Hydrail Conference that runs June 11 – 12, 2009 in Charlotte, North Carolina could spur as many as 200 new jobs in the high tech hydrogen industry. One of the goals of hydrail (hydrogen railway) is to build hydrolley (hydrogen trolley) streetcars to replace those powered by overhead electrical lines. Hydrolley is […]
Continue ReadingIn October 2004, Governor Schwarzenegger drove his hydrogen modified H2H Hummer to LAX airport to open California’s first public hydrogen fueling station. Since then the governor has developed and promoted California’s Hydrogen Highway system. Yesterday, at the Shell hydrogen fueling station in West Los Angeles Gov. Schwarzenegger spoke on behalf not only about the Hydrogen […]
Continue ReadingAs the Hydrogen Road Tour 2009 is busy on the West Coast proving H2 as a viable transportation fuel, the Rochester Institute of Technology (RIT) is busy on the East Coast doing the same. While Governor Schwarzenegger is speaking in West Los Angeles today about the tour that runs from Chula Vista, California to Vancouver, […]
Continue ReadingThe Swiss have decided to go where no many has gone before and that is to test a municipal street sweeper using a hydrogen fuel cell. Cleaning up the air and the streets at the same time is the point of the Bucher CityCat H2 vehicle. Creating the CityCat H2 took a coordinated effort among […]
Continue ReadingThe Hydrogen Road Tour 2009 is coming a little early this year. Last year the Hydrogen Road Tour 2008 started on August 10. And, last year’s tour started in Portland, Maine and ended in Los Angeles after 13 days. This year, the Hydrogen Road Tour 2009 starts next Tuesday, May 26 and ends on June […]
Continue ReadingAs the Obama Administration is slashing the budget and zeroing out hydrogen car development, the European Union is upping the ante. Last week I talked about how President Obama and the DOE’s Energy Secretary Steven Chu chopped the hydrogen budget down 60-percent to $68.2 million and this money is for stationary fuel cell development and […]
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