Hydrogen Cars, Vehicles and Infrastructure
A group of Japanese students at Osaka Sangyo University took it upon themselves to build a hydrogen car and unveiled it in Tokyo last Friday. They didn’t have the usual support system in place in which to do this. According to the Mainichi Daily News, “This is the first successful fuel cell electric vehicle project […]
Continue ReadingI’ve talked many times and in many of the past years how hydrogen fuel cells are lighting up Christmas around the world. Now, Santa is getting his own hydrogen fueling station and one that he’s willing to share with others. H2 Logic decided it would be logical to place a hydrogen fueling station in Finland […]
Continue ReadingIn my last post, I had talked about a fleet of 3-wheel hydrogen vehicles called HyAlfa being rolled out in India. These vehicles use converted internal combustion engines (ICE) for power. Today I want to talk about a different company in India Mahindra & Mahindra Ltd., who has contracted Quantum Fuel Systems Technologies Worldwide Inc. […]
Continue ReadingI first talked about the Hy-Alfa (at that time it was hyphenated) in August 2009. Back then it was something that was being worked on in India, but there were no guarantees that it would ever make it to the testing phase. Now, a fleet of HyAlfa (no hyphen) three-wheel vehicles have been rolled out […]
Continue ReadingWhile critics are disregarding the wisdom of rolling out hydrogen fuel cell vehicles in the year 2015, Mercedes (and all of the other major automakers) is plunging straight ahead. Assuming that we all make it past the Mayan end of times prophecy for December 21, 2012, perhaps the dawning of the Age of Aquarius is […]
Continue ReadingThe Argonne National Laboratory (ANL) has recently made great strides in cheaply and efficiently producing hydrogen. One of the long standing problems of creating hydrogen from water has been energy consumption. According to ANL, “Easier routes to the generation of hydrogen have long been a target of scientists and engineers, principally because the process to […]
Continue ReadingThe last time I talked Turkey was November 9, 2011 to discuss the country’s first fuel cell car which was unveiled. The fuel cell car runs on sodium borohydride (NaBH4) which is created from the main mineral mined in Turkey, boron. Today I would like to talk Turkey again. Besides being a hotbed for development […]
Continue ReadingI’ve talked about the possibility of the Apple iPhone using hydrogen fuel cell batteries before. Shortly after Steven Jobs died I had stated that this may be one of his legacies yet to be realized. Unlike normal lithium batteries that need to be recharged often, as in every day for many users, hydrogen batteries can […]
Continue ReadingThis is a guest post by John R. Please take me seriously since I am. I am a retired electrical engineer. I began my career I as a technician at Bell Telephone Laboratories. I worked there from 1967 through 1970. I then went to Wescom (now Rockwell company) and worked there from 1970-1978 were I […]
Continue ReadingThe U. S. Department of Energy Secretary Dr. Steven Chu, a Nobel Prize Winner, has on many occasions insinuated that he is a hydrogen hater, by trying to zero out the Federal budget for hydrogen cars. He calls them “impractical” while battery electric cars have gotten his blessing. As early as May 2011, there were […]
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