Category: Hydrogen Cars

Because so much is riding on your tires, Michelin, the tire company has decided to develop a fuel cell. That’s right, a tire company developing a hydrogen fuel cell which will go inside a FAM F-City car in France. This will be the first fuel cell vehicle in France to win certification to drive on […]

Over this past weekend the Audi Q5 Hybrid Fuel Cell (HFC) was unveiled at the Michelin Challenge Bibendum in Berlin, Germany. The Audi Q5 FCV contains two 10,000 psi compressed hydrogen tanks for extended driving range. The PEM fuel cell is rated at 98 kw and the Q5 Fuel Cell uses two 90 kw electric […]

As the Obama Administration keeps trying to give body blows to the emerging hydrogen car market, yet another automobile company is stepping forward with their intentions of producing an H2 fuel cell vehicle (FCV) within the next few years, and this one also happens to be a plug-in hybrid electric vehicle (PHEV) as well. Chinese […]

On January 10, 2011 I had talked about the F-Cell World Drive circling the globe in 125 days. The purpose of this 4 continent tour (Europe, America, Australia and Asia) was to show off the capabilities of the Mercedes B-Class F-Cell automobile plus discover interesting green subjects that need reporting along the way. According to […]

In October 2007, I had talked about the hydrogen-powered microcabs that were being developed by the University of Coventry and driven around the Birmingham area. Here is an update on what is happening with the fuel cell microcabs. “In another first, Coventry-based hydrogen vehicle manufacturer Microcab is set to unveil its new next-generation hybrid car, […]

Right now there are several radio controlled (RC) hydrogen powered cars on the market. Three of them are the HCell 20, the H2Go and the H-Cell RC. But, there is another hydrogen fuel cell RC that I would like to talk about that has just been developed and is a little unique. First of all, […]

I’ve talked about Asia Pacific Fuel Cell Technologies Ltd. (APFCT) before. In August 2010 I had talked about how APFCT was producing 10 hydrogen microcars and 10 fuel cell scooters. Then in January 2011, I had talked about how the first swappable hydrogen canister station had been setup at the National Tsing-Hua University in Taiwan. […]

The Hyundai Blue2 fuel cell electric vehicle was unveiled for future drivers recently at the Seoul Motor Show in South Korea. The concept vehicle uses a 90 Kw fuel cell to deliver not only significant power but an 82 mpge fuel efficiency rating. The Hyundai Blue2 is a significant upgrade from their current lineup including […]

The students at the University of Waterloo in Ontario Canada are not making their last stand but their first in developing a hydrogen fuel cell plug-in hybrid vehicle that one day may be commercialized. Now, a couple of the major automakers have already come up with such a vehicle such as the Ford HySeries Edge […]

Last week I had talked about Hyundai and Hydrogenics ramping up the Scandinavian Hydrogen Highway Partnership (SHHP). This week I have received an email from the Zero Emission Resource Organisation asking if anyone would like to lease their Mazda RX-8 Hydrogen Car. Here is the email: Hello to all of you. Let me give you […]