Hydrogen Cars, Vehicles and Infrastructure
Talks about hydrogen fueling stations, pumps and home H2 refueling.
Hydrogen fueling stations have not been standardized yet though there is a push to do so in order that hydrogen cars may start to rollout commercially within the next 5 years. On the California Fuel Cell Partnership (CaFCP) website there are a couple of pages outlining what the current hydrogen fueling stations look like and […]
Continue ReadingLarge industrial specialty gas company Linde has announced that they will be opening two new fast filling hydrogen stations in the San Francisco area (Emeryville and Oakland) to accommodate AC Transit fuel cell buses. Linde is using new ionic compressor technology in their stations that require less maintenance and less electricity to operate than previous […]
Continue ReadingBack in September 2009 I had talked about how 8 major companies had signed onto the H2 Mobility program that will involves erecting hundreds of hydrogen fueling stations throughout Germany by the year 2015. The H2 Mobility plan has now taken another step into the future. Clean Energy Partnership (CEP) members Statoil, Linde, and TOTAL […]
Continue ReadingWhen I had spoken with a couple of representatives from ITM Power a couple of weeks ago about revisiting the “green box” hydrogen home refueler and the possibility of using the same or similar refueling for the forklift market they were non-committal. This is because they had something up their sleeves and weren’t ready to […]
Continue ReadingYesterday, I talked about an alternative hydrogen refueling infrastructure for cars and today I would like to talk about a “standard” hydrogen refueling infrastructure for long-haul trucks. A couple of weeks ago I went to the NHA Conference and took a look at the Vision Tyrano hydrogen fuel cell hybrid class-8 truck firsthand. The idea […]
Continue ReadingWhen building out the hydrogen highway system in California, New York, Washington DC, Florida or other places the conventional wisdom has to been either build an entire station from the ground up or add a hydrogen fueling pump to an existing gas station. In April 2008, I quoted Larry Burns of General Motors stating, “A […]
Continue ReadingGreg Blencoe, the CEO of Hydrogen Discoveries, Incorporated of Oak Ridge, Tennessee is advocating for a Southern California based Hydrogen Fueling Station Cooperative system to be built by 2015 when the major automakers say they will start rolling out large numbers of production hydrogen cars. Mr. Blencoe has in the past proposed a Hydrogen Manhattan […]
Continue ReadingThe Society of Automotive Engineers (SAE) has published a set of safety standards for hydrogen refueling stations. Safety standards are important for three reasons. First, safety of people and property is the number on priority of the public, of automakers and of fueling station owners and manufacturers. Second, with safety standards in place, customer acceptance […]
Continue ReadingAfter months of silence, ITM Power is starting to release some details about its HFuel hydrogen refueling unit. The HFuel system can be used for hydrogen refueling in a commercial setting. The hydrogen fuel produced from the ITM Power HFuel system meets the purity requirements for running it through a car’s fuel cell. At a […]
Continue ReadingLast week I talked about the price of converting fossil fueled vehicles into H2ICE cars. So, this week I thought I would follow up and talk about the price at the pump of hydrogen fuel to consumers. Right now, consumers can convert their own cars, trucks and other vehicles to run on hydrogen. Or they […]
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