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Ah, yes, it’s beginning to look a lot like X-prize. Well, not really, just one small step towards it as hydrogen technology meets the Christmas holiday season. Last night in Sacramento, California Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger lighted a Christmas tree powered by hydrogen fuel cell to kick off the holiday season. Governor Schwarzenegger along with First • Read More »

The U. S. Department of Energy (DOE) continues to dole out funds to advance development of hydrogen technology, which has seemed to escape the attention of most media outlets. On October 24, 2006, the U. S. Department of Energy announced it was allocating $100 million to fun 25 hydrogen research projects. The aim of the • Read More »

The United States Federal Transit Authority (FTA) announced on October 12 that it will be doling out $49 million to a variety of different companies in order to get hydrogen buses rolling in several cities nationwide. Congresswoman Mary Bono (R-CA) and FTA Administrator James Simpson announced the federal grants for researchers geared towards making hydrogen • Read More »

Linde Group’s chief executive, Wolfgang Reitzle is predicting that 6 million hydrogen cars will be on the European roads before the end of next decade. He goes onto say this is a conservative estimate. The Germany-based company is the world’s largest specialty gases supplier with revenues of over $15 billion globally. Reitzle says he hopes • Read More »

On Thursday, October 12, the Odyssey National Alternative Fuel Vehicle Day will kick off with expositions around the country. The 54 events in 34 of the U. S. states are being coordinated by the National Alternative Fuels Training Consortium (NAFTC). In 2004, 25,000 people attended the events, which are geared towards those who are interested • Read More »

Hopefully, it’s not like “deja vu all over again” as Yogi Berra might say in regards to California suing automakers to clean up their acts in the Golden State. Yesterday, California’s Attorney General Bill Lockyer filed suit against DaimlerChrysler, Ford, General Motors, Honda, Nissan and Toyota for emitting 30-percent of the state’s greenhouse gases through • Read More »

Yesterday, President Bush nominated motorcycle-riding Mary Peters to be Secretary of the U. S. Department of Transportation (DOT). Peters, the former head of Arizona’s Department of Transportation will succeed Norman Mineta, if approved by Congress. Mineta stepped down in July after holding the Transportation Secretary position for 5 1/2 years. At the top of Peters’ • Read More »

Bill Ford, great grandson of founder Henry Ford, has stepped down as the CEO of Ford Motor Company. Boeing top executive, Alan Mulally has been given the position in hopes of turning around the beleaguered automaker. Just last month, Toyota announced that it had surpassed Ford for the first time in U. S. auto sales, • Read More »

A startup company, Hydrogen Engine Center Incorporated, is taking advantage of a niche market left open by Ford, General Motors and Chrysler. The Big 3 automakers have gotten out of the business of industrial engine production, making way for smaller companies to take root. Hydrogen Engine Center, however, is putting its own spin on the • Read More »

Yesterday, the U. S. House of Representatives voted 416-6 to begin a $50 million awards program for researchers in hydrogen technology. According to the San Francisco Chronicle, prizes of $1 – $4 million would be handed out for breakthrough technology along with a $10 million grand prize to be awarded to any research team that • Read More »