Category: Hydrogen Cars

In May 2010, Toyota declared that they will be able to build and sell a fuel cell vehicle (FCV) for $50,000 by 2015. This remark was met with a lot of criticism and disbelief. Now, Daimler has also jumped on the bandwagon saying that they will be able to build and sell their FCVs for […]

Some will say that the future hydrogen car, the Chase 2053 flies under the face of science fiction. And they may be right. But this future flight of fancy opens up the doors of what hydrogen cars could look like in another 40 years. The Chase 2053, which drives and flies using a hydrogen-powered jet […]

Last March 2010, I had talked about the Hyundai Tucson iX35 FCEV rolling out at the Geneva Auto Show. The most recent news regarding this vehicle is that the prototype is now ready and will begin testing in 2011. The Tucson iX is an upgrade from the Hyundai Tucson FCEV with a 3rd generation fuel […]

The first Mercedes fuel cell vehicle (FCV) lease in the U. S. is going to Hollywood’s Executive Director of the Producers Guild of America. Mr. Vance Van Petten will be driving the Mercedes B-Class F-Cell FCV around the Hollywood Hills and beyond in Southern California. Now, it’s no secret that Hollywood types like the status […]

Fuel Cells 2000, a non-profit educational organization has come up with a head-to-head comparison of two FCVs (fuel cell vehicles), one PHEV (plug-in hybrid electric vehicle) and one BEV (battery electric vehicle) to see if public perception is accurate. Because the Nissan Leaf BEV and Chevy Volt PHEV have garnered so much media attention in […]

Lotus has unveiled a futuristic hydrogen-powered FCV concept car which they say will give us a glimpse at the year 2025. Though Lotus has given us a glimpse they prefer to talk about the materials used in the body of the car rather than the fuel cell power train. What is known is that the […]

Just in time for the Los Angeles Auto Show which opens tomorrow, the first serial production 2011 Mercedes B-Class F-Cell has been unveiled on U. S. soil. Not only have I talked about the Mercedes A-Class and B-Class F-Cell before but I have driven both non-production vehicles as well. Besides the Honda Clarity the Mercedes […]

Another company is getting wise to the fact that building an all-electric vehicle will not do well in the marketplace because of its limited range. So like other companies Volvo has decided to add a hydrogen fuel cell range extender to expand the range of the vehicle by about 150 miles. The fuel cell will […]

Suppose 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, […]

It 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 […]