Category: Hydrogen Cars

Toyota has announced that by 2013 it will have 100 fuel cell vehicles on the road for demonstration and testing. This is two years ahead of the previously announced large scale rollout of commercial production hydrogen cars in 2015. Up to this point, Honda, General Motors, BMW and Daimler are the automakers who have had […]

Yesterday I pondered a pairing between the Horizon HydroFill home hydrogen refueling products and the Riversimple fuel cell vehicle. In June 2009 I had talked about how the Riversimple, which by the way carries a Horizon 6 kw fuel cell, is an open source vehicle that many are able to develop simultaneously, which will speed […]

There have been several articles floating about over the past week or so stating that BMW is scaling back the operations of its hydrogen development in favor of working or hybrids and battery electric vehicles. The articles state that engineers will be pulled off the BMW Hydrogen 7 to work on other near term projects. […]

In August 2009 I had talked about how Daimler had stated that they would be starting serial production of their Mercedes-Benz B-Class F-Cell hydrogen fuel cell vehicles this year. Now, promises of building fuel cell cars have been a dime a dozen over the years but Daimler has made good on its promise by starting […]

In Lyon, France the Peugeot 307 CC FiSyPAC FCV hybrid is making an appearance Dec. 7 – 11, 2009. In 2006 the same company showed off the Peugeot 207 ePure at the Paris Motor Show, but many improvements have been made since then. For instance the Peugeot 307 CC FiSyPAC is based upon the 307 […]

Yesterday, a caravan of hydrogen cars decided to take a little road trip from Sweden to Copenhagen, Denmark ahead of the start of the COP15 United Nations Climate Change Conference 2009 that starts on December 7th. The 27-mile hydrogen car parade was intended to make an impact not only at the COP15 summit but also […]

The Coke zero emissions Nissan X-Trail FCV was announced as a lease vehicle for the world’s largest carbonated beverage company at their Sacramento, California plant. This happens to be the first time that Nissan has leases a hydrogen fuel cell vehicle in the U. S. although they’ve already done so in Japan. Nissan has also […]

This is a story that has slipped under the radar of most mainstream news outlets and there are very few details about this event. But, Toyota, Nissan and Honda have decided that today they will take their fuel cell cars on a 1,100 kilometer (683 miles) fun run. The cars will leave Toyko and travel […]

Now 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 […]