Hydrogen Cars, Vehicles and Infrastructure
Last week I talked about Yellow taxis running on propane and the new Honda Civic GX CNG (compressed natural gas) vehicle that was making some people take notice. This has brought to mind the possibility of using the current natural gas infrastructure as a starting point for the hydrogen vehicle infrastructure. Currently, most of the […]
Continue ReadingGerman Energy Group E. ON has decided to take the extra energy created by local wind turbines, use it to electrolyze water into hydrogen and oxygen and store that hydrogen into the country’s current natural gas pipeline system. E. ON expects to be able to store between 5 – 15 percent hydrogen within the pipeline […]
Continue ReadingChemists at the University of Oregon have come up with a combination of elements that may serve to be the fuel of the future. Using boron and nitrogen as chemical carriers for hydrogen the liquid that the researchers have developed is safe and stable at room temperature and it is also stable in regard to […]
Continue ReadingFrom Switzerland to California (and everywhere in-between) fuel cell buses have become increasingly common over the past few years. They have become so common in fact that I usually don’t write about individual rollouts anymore and lump them together as I’m doing in this blog post. In Switzerland there is a company called PostBus that […]
Continue ReadingGenerally when I speak of fuel cell vehicles on this hydrogen car website, blog and message board I’m talking about PEM fuel cells than run using compressed hydrogen gas. But there are a variety of fuel cells on the market and in the research labs, most of which have nothing to do with the transportation […]
Continue ReadingIn February 2009, I had talked about how the New Holland NH2 fuel cell farm tractor won the gold medal in the SIMA Innovation Awards. The farm tractor easily pulled away from its combination, not only being the best in category but the only in category in regard to hydrogen fuel cell powered tractors. Well, […]
Continue ReadingWhile some countries like South Africa are ramping up R&D and production of fuel cells because this country sits upon 80-percent of the world’s supply of platinum, the most expensive part of most fuel cells, many scientists are experimenting with alternatives to this costly metal. One of the benefits of switching to hydrogen fuel cells […]
Continue ReadingTokyo Motor Show 2011 is a little more than two weeks away and there is some buzz already about the two new fuel cell vehicles that will be unveiled during the event. Even, though the Japanese tsunami put a dent in the auto industry, the show must go on, as they say and the Tokyo […]
Continue ReadingThe SunLine Transit company out of Thousand Palms, California yesterday unveiled its 7th generation fuel cell in its production ready American Fuel Cell Bus. In order for the bus to be “Buy America Compliant” 60-percent of its components had to be manufactured within the U. S. This compliancy qualified SunLine for some Federal funding. However, […]
Continue ReadingAustralia’s RMIT University has created a small-scale replica of the Scania Highline series long haul truck, but this one is operated by remote control and hydrogen fuel cell. The full scale real life diesel version usually travels between the cities of Melbourne and Sydney. According to RMIT, “Professor Aleksandar Subic, Head of the School of […]
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