Hydrogen Cars, Vehicles and Infrastructure
Gensler Design along with 4240 Architecture has just won a silver Spark Award for design excellence in transforming a 3-mile section of one of Chicago’s abandoned railway lines (pictured left) into a solar and Hydrogenerator powered farm and trail way. The idea is to transform the old Bloomingdale railroad viaduct that runs through the heart of […]
Continue ReadingThe green grocery store, Whole Foods Markets, which started operations in Austin, Texas in 1980 has decided to pilot a set of hydrogen fuel cell forklifts at one of their distribution centers in Maryland. Now, I’ve talked about forklifts for grocers before such as H-E-B Corporation and Wegmans Food Markets. Whole Foods going with hydrogen […]
Continue ReadingNow days most models of hydrogen fuel cell cars come with some sort of hybrid or plug-in hybrid batteries to increase mileage and range of the vehicle. The major automakers have come to realizing that the marrying of these two technologies (fuel cells and batteries) will be a winning combination for years to come. Battery […]
Continue ReadingUniversity of Massachusetts, Amherst scientists have discovered a new way of storing hydrogen that may reduce fuel tank size to that of a briefcase. Using computer modeling and carbon nanotube technology that researchers have shown that it is possible to design a hydrogen storage tank that stores nearly 100-percent H2 atomically plus nearly 8-percent by […]
Continue ReadingThe Swedish government has decided to invest almost $9 million USD into Powercell Sweden AB in which Volvo has a 40-percent stake. The investment will create 100 new jobs over the next 3 years. According to Per Wassén, Chairman of Powercell, “We are busy staffing the company and have received more than 1,000 highly qualified […]
Continue ReadingIntelligent Energy and Suzuki Motor Co. have teamed up again to put a hydrogen fuel cell motorbike before the public. At the 2009 Tokyo Motor Show the companies showed off the Suzuki Burgman Fuel Cell Scooter, which is slated to roll out in a few months. A couple of weeks ago I mentioned the Burgman […]
Continue ReadingLast Friday I talked about how plug-in vehicles lack a recharging infrastructure. Critics of hydrogen cars typically say that there is absolutely no hydrogen infrastructure whatsoever inside the U. S. But, that is not true. While hydrogen cars do lack an adequate refueling infrastructure, there is already some production and distribution going on of which […]
Continue ReadingThis is almost poetic in a sense. I can’t tell you how many times I’ve heard people say (including myself) that hydrogen cars are almost here but a lack of refueling infrastructure is holding them back. Two days ago, the New York Times published an article titled, “Plug-In Cars Are Almost Here, but Charging Stations Lag.” […]
Continue ReadingWould it be any surprise that technology developed for NASA would one day be used to fuel hydrogen cars? NASA has been using hydrogen fuel cells in their spacecraft for over 40 years and routinely uses hydrogen as a propellant as well. Researchers at Purdue and Penn State University have developed an aluminum-ice propellant (ALICE) […]
Continue ReadingYesterday I talked about the Vision Tyrano Truck that was making an appearance before Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger at the Capitol Building in Sacramento, California. The governor talked about the Tyrano at length before the question and answer session turned into a regular press briefing. The Tyrano hydrogen fuel cell plug-in hybrid electric short haul truck […]
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