Category: Hydrogen Cars

Chemists have known for a long time that hydrogen can be created by combining a drain cleaner such as Drano with aluminum and water. This is where I insert the “don’t try this at home” disclaimer. There are many videos floating around the Internet such as on YouTube or Google Video that show people at […]

While cruising digg and hugg and other Internet resources for information on hydrogen cars, I stumbled upon a thread, which features several videos about the Hyundai Tucson FCEV. Writer Lou Ann Hammond from Carlist writes about and shows video of the flow of energy through the Hyundai Tucson FCEV, which was on display in Mabuk, […]

At the Shanghai Auto Show this week in China, a couple of Chinese automakers are showing off their hydrogen vehicles. Shanghai Automotive Industry Corporation (SAIC) and Chery Automotive each have prototype fuel cell car that they have debuted. SAIC’s fuel cell vehicle is simply called the “Shanghai” and is a sedan being shown off this […]

On the Popular Mechanics website, there is a video of reporter, Ben Chertoff, taking a test drive in a Ford HySeries Edge hydrogen plug-in hybrid electric vehicle. In the video, Chertoff takes the $2 million prototype for a drive around New York City, complete with the potential of being cut-off, hit in traffic or any […]

It was funny the first time around and the second and third as well, but now it is just an old joke that won’t go away. What I’m talking about is how those who write about or talk about hydrogen cars will eventually ask where the “flux capacitor” is on the vehicle. Now, this joke […]

HyPower Fuel Inc. is teaming up with Middle Tennessee State University (MTSU) to develop plug-in hybrid flex-fuel vehicles running on hydrogen. Leading the project will be Dr. Clifton Ricketts who has been a professor at MTSU for over 30 years and is a 15-year title-holder for land-speed records for a hydrogen vehicle at the Bonneville […]

A draft of the international Automotive X-Prize (AXP) guidelines has been published for public viewing and comment ahead of the New York International Auto Show, which runs from April 6 – 15, 2007. The goal of the Automotive X-Prize is to encourage automakers to build super-efficient mass-production vehicles that exceed 100 miles per gallon or […]

I would like to follow up to a blog posting from yesterday about converting cars to run on hydrogen where I had mentioned Quantum Fuel Systems Technologies Worldwide, Incorporated as one of the leading companies in the field. After writing the blog post, I was able to catch up with Quantum’s Andy Abele, Executive Director, […]

With all the publicity about hydrogen fuel cell vehicles that has been bandied about in the media, what is often lost in the shuffle is that automobiles with internal combustion engines (ICE) can also be converted to run on hydrogen. A couple of businesses have been quietly converting cars and other vehicles to run on […]

The X-Prize, in general, was created to promote and reward radical technological breakthroughs that benefit humanity. In 2004, Burt Rutan and Microsoft Co-founder Paul Allen won the $10 million Anasari X-Prize when they built and launched the SpaceShipOne, the first private spacecraft to fly into space. Now, the Automotive X-Prize has been launched to encourage […]