Hydrogen Cars, Vehicles and Infrastructure
Formerly known by other Toyota employees as “Mr. Hybrid Synergy Drive”, Katsuhiko Hirose has now been given another tag, “Mr. Hydrogen.” Mr. Hirose is in charge of the hydrogen car program for Toyota and was the key player in the Japanese carmaker joining the London Hydrogen Partnership (LHP). The LHP is heavily involved in developing […]
Continue ReadingThe silver bullet in hydrogen production may actually be made out of titanium dioxide. At least this is what Associate Professor Darren Sun at Nanyang Technological University (NTU) is saying. Under the category of the “Best Thing Since Sliced Bread and Ginsu Knives” Professor Sun has invented the Multi-use Titanium Dioxide (TiO2). When combined with […]
Continue ReadingIn November of 2011, I had talked about the German Energy Group E. ON storing hydrogen inside of natural gas pipelines. The idea was that wind turbines would electrolyze water and 5 – 15 percent hydrogen could be stored and moved through current natural gas pipelines for various uses for home, business and transportation. The […]
Continue ReadingI’ve mentioned Dr. Cliff Ricketts several times in this blog starting in 2007. The last time I mentioned the professor and hydrogen car advocate was in 2012, when he took some of his Middle Tennessee State University students on a hydrogen-fueled road trip from Savannah, GA to Long Beach, CA. This year, Dr. Ricketts conducted […]
Continue ReadingAnybody who has read this blog for a while knows that I like talking about hydrogen fuel cell forklifts and other hydrogen-powered materials handling units. At a time when hydrogen cars have not been fully commercialized, the H2 fuel cell material handling units have been fully commercialized. And taking the bull by the horns and […]
Continue ReadingAir Liquide is back at it again. The large specialty gas company is building three new hydrogen fueling stations in Europe by 2014 as part of the European Hydrogen Highway system. The high capacity fueling stations will help drivers traveling throughout Europe move among countries knowing that fueling is available for their vehicles. According to […]
Continue ReadingI’ve talked many times about the Obama White House’s less than enthusiastic stance on hydrogen cars, putting money behind battery electric vehicles instead. And I’ve even talked in recent months how the President is warming up and evolving on the idea of hydrogen fuel cell vehicles as a long range, zero emission, quick fueling solution. […]
Continue ReadingLast week I talked about Hyundai rolling its first ix35 FCEV off the assembly line in Ulsan, Korea. The fuel cell vehicle that rolled off was one of 17 fleet vehicles slated for shipment to the City of Copenhagen, Denmark or Skåne, Sweden. Now, that the first few ix35 FCEV’s are rolling off the line, […]
Continue ReadingFleet managers and other decision-makers will be given a chance to test-drive a Microcab H2EV at the 2013 Company Car in Action event. The vehicle is designed as a city car with a top speed of 55 mph and top range of 100 miles. The event will take place at the Millbrook Proving Ground in […]
Continue ReadingSince 2008 I’ve been talking about the Forze hydrogen race cars and now the Forze VI design has just been unveiled. After 5 years of development the engineering team was finally able to scale up the Forze VI to the size of a regular street car. The Forze VI has six times the power of […]
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