Category: Hydrogen Cars

Sixty students over two years have now completed Australia’s first hydrogen racing car. This is an update from a story I talked about a month ago where students from Australia and Germany collaborated on this Formula 1 style vehicle with a re-engineered motorcycle engine. Currently the Formula H racer is powered by hydrogen created by […]

General Motors has upped the ante in Germany by rolling out its GM / Opel Hydrogen4 fuel cell vehicles for real world testing in addition to its Project Driveway program. Nine Berlin-based businesses will be the first to operate the vehicles including ADAC, Allianz, Coca-Cola, Hilton, Linde, Schindler, Axel Springer, Total and Veolia. According to […]

When I was at the Los Angeles Auto Show last week I asked the Honda reps when the FCX Clarity was once again going to be heavily promoted since there has been somewhat of a publicity vacuum since they announced back in July that actress Jamie Lee Curtis was leasing one. The answer was “soon, very […]

Before I leave for the Los Angeles International Auto Show this morning, I wanted to talk about a hydrogen fuel cell car that is already causing quite a stir. First reports have it that the Honda FC Sport Concept has been unveiled. Before you and I get too excited, the Honda FC Sport concept car […]

In July of 2008, I had talked about how Tongji University, the Shanghai Fuel Cell Vehicle Powertrain Company and Shanghai VW Automotive Company were building 20 VW Lingyu fuel cell vehicles for the upcoming 2008 Beijing Olympics later in August. Now, the Passat Lingyu FCV will make its North American debut at the Los Angeles […]

Next week, Kia will rollout the Borrego FCEV at the L. A. Auto Show among a bunch of glitz, glamour and hype that is typical of the Los Angeles venue. The Kia Borrego FCEV is one-upping the Sportage that the South Korean automaker has been showing off over the past several years. I’ve driven the […]

Engineering students from Missouri University of Science and Technology (Missouri S&T) in Rolla, MO have been given a GM Saturn VUE automobile, with the challenge to turn the car into one that runs on hydrogen. Yesterday I talked about University of Michigan students being challenged by a local business to build a small unmanned airplane […]

Yesterday I talked about the Formula H hydrogen racecar going for the Guinness World Record for land speed for cars in its class. And, several times in the past, I’ve talked about using clean, green hydrogen peroxide (H2O2) as a future fuel for cars, where the only bi-products are steam and oxygen. Now, a racecar […]

Australia’s RMIT University and Germany’s Fachhochschule Ingolstadt University have co-developed a “Formula H” racecar that they intend to attempt a Guinness World Record with next year in Germany. The single seat hydrogen vehicle uses a converted motorcycle motor and is expected to reach around 100 mph in the F1 class. The Formula H car will […]