Hydrogen Cars, Vehicles and Infrastructure
In my last blog post I talked about how China was charging forward with fuel cell vehicles. At the Austria Tech Week event held at the Expo Shanghai 2010 in China, a company called AVL rolled out its Fuel Cell Commuter (FCC). The AVL FCC is basically a battery electric car that uses a hydrogen […]
Continue ReadingAs the U. S. has faltered in auto sales across the board recently, China still continues in strong production and sales. In fact, China is so strong that some are wondering if there is a bubble looming for this country of 1.3 billion people. But, what has been under-reported by the mainstream media is that […]
Continue ReadingI’ve talked about high temperature cracking of water to create hydrogen before. I’ve also talked about adding a catalyst such as aluminum or magnesium to aid the cracking of water into hydrogen. Now a Japanese company, FUKAI Environmental Research Institute has found a way to do both and do so at low cost. According to […]
Continue ReadingIn an interesting twist of events, the same day that SunHydro announces its grand opening of the East Coast Hydrogen Highway, Shell Oil has announced the closing of its hydrogen fueling stations on the East Coast. Is this due to coincidence, competition or something else? I’ve talked about SunHydro’s East Coast Hydrogen Highway before and […]
Continue ReadingWell there have been some wacky designs in the car world as any trade show will tell you. Concept cars are pretty prevalent there. But, concept buses are another matter altogether. This futuristic concept bus was invented by designer Peter Simon. The Credo E-Bone is powered by a combination of hydrogen fuel cells and lithium […]
Continue ReadingBMW has been developing hydrogen cars since 1979. Their latest vehicle is the dual fuel BMW Hydrogen 7 which can run on either compressed H2 gas or gasoline with the press of a button. But, what has been missing from most of the major automaker’s lineup is the use of hydrogen fuel cell forklifts at […]
Continue ReadingSuppose that your near future hydrogen car could be filled with diesel fuel, reformed into H2 then run through a fuel cell? Now, suppose you can fill up your car with biodiesel fuel and do the same. This is what the folks at Nordic Power Systems of Norway and SAFCell Incorporated of California are thinking, […]
Continue ReadingIn 2007, I had talked about Purdue University using aluminum, gallium and fresh water to produce hydrogen. This technology still has promise. Today, however, Purdue has put a slightly different spin on the same goal using aluminum, plus a liquid alloy of gallium, indium and tin to produce hydrogen from seawater. Why is this different? […]
Continue ReadingIt was only a matter of time until Daimler followed suit in the U. S. Worldwide Daimler has the largest fleet of hydrogen-powered vehicles and now some of those vehicles are coming to California. In December 2009, I had talked about how Daimler was going into serial production of 200 of its Mercedes B-Class F-Cell […]
Continue ReadingOkay, I’ll admit this is a stretch and not everyone is going to like this idea. But, I enjoy talking about possible future technology so this possibility has caught my attention. Some would say this is “leading edge technology” while others will say this is “bleeding edge technology”. But, according to an article in the […]
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