Hydrogen Cars, Vehicles and Infrastructure
Includes hydrogen infrastructure issues not covered in production, storage and distribution areas.
On March 12, 2013 I had talked about how the U. S. Department of Energy (DOE) was intending to launch a new public-private program called H2USA that would promote the building of hydrogen infrastructure to support fuel cell vehicles. Yesterday, on May 13, 2014 the DOE actually launched the H2USA program. According to the DOE, […]
Continue Readingby guest Blogger Stan Thompson Before 2014, the Caribbean island nation of Aruba will roll out the world’s first fleet of hydrogen hybrid, self-powered, rail transit vehicles. Los Angeles, CA, transit manufacturer TIG/m Modern Street Railways is building both the streetcars—resembling heritage open trolleys—and the hydrogen production infrastructure needed to power their fuel cells. Energy […]
Continue Readingby guest blogger Stan Thompson At first glance, Russell Gold’s March 5, 2013, Wall Street Journal story, “Berkshire’s BNSF Railway to Test Switch to Natural Gas,” looked like such a big splash that the hydrail boat might get swamped. But a closer look suggests that hydrail—the emerging hydrogen fuel cell hybrid technology for railroad propulsion—is […]
Continue ReadingHydrogen car proponents in the United Kingdom have been making plans to put 1.5 million H2 drivers on the British roads by 2030. According to the H2UKMobility plan, hydrogen fuel cell cars will start hitting the streets of Great Britain in 2015 and will see slow sales to early adopters up until 2020. At this […]
Continue Readingby guest blogger, Stan Thompson If I get my long-awaited hydrail “electric train” for Christmas, in may be the GE Global Research Electric Propulsion Systems Lab engineers who drop it down the chimney, not Saint Nick. So far they’re talking buses, not trains, but the rail application is a no-brainer. This month GE unveiled a dual-battery […]
Continue ReadingOn June 3, 2011 I had talked about building a hydrogen car refueling infrastructure that mimics the compressed natural gas (CNG) refueling infrastructure that is already in place in the United States. The idea behind this suggestion is to not reinvent the wheel and to avoid mimicking the gasoline refueling infrastructure (120,000 gasoline stations nationwide). […]
Continue ReadingPosted on November 1, 2012 By guest blogger, Stan Thompson What you won’t hear, but should, in news coverage about Hurricane Sandy and transit service interruptions is that hydrail—hydrogen fuel cell/battery hybrid—subway trains would be much less impacted by salt water flooding. That’s not to say subway service could have continued. Signaling, switching and many […]
Continue ReadingI’ve talked about the company Air Products many times in the past as one of the world’s largest manufacturers and suppliers of hydrogen gas. Now, the company has dedicated the world’s largest hydrogen pipeline running between Texas and Louisiana. According to Your Houston News, “Air Products, the leading global hydrogen provider, formally dedicated its Gulf […]
Continue ReadingIn Copenhagen, Denmark representatives from Toyota, Honda, Nissan and Hyundai all signed memorandums of understanding (MoU) regarding the buildup of the Scandinavian Hydrogen Highway by 2014 to 2017. The MoU is focused on pulling together public and private stakeholders in Norway, Sweden, Denmark and Iceland to help build out the necessary hydrogen refueling infrastructure in […]
Continue Readingby guest blogger, Stan Thompson Long before the California Gold Rush, there was a North Carolina Gold Rush. The land right under the feet of President Obama and delegates to the 2012 Democratic National Convention was riddled with ancient gold mining tunnels. Mine waste tailings were so plentiful that eventually they were used as construction […]
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