Earlier this year, General Motors drove their Sequel fuel cell vehicle across New York state to show the world that hydrogen-powered cars and SUVs can have a range of 300-miles. This week, the Toyota FCHV broke this mark by traveling 348 miles from Osaka to Tokyo on a single tank of hydrogen with 30-percent of [...]
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So, which came first, the chicken or the hydrogen? This is a question being posed by two researchers at Ohio State University. Professor L. S. Fan and doctoral student Mahesh Iyer have discovered how to produce hydrogen with the help of eggshells. While working on extracting hydrogen through the gasification of coal, the two researchers [...]
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I’ve already commented about how the hydrogen car debate has changed in the last 2 or 3 years and specifically about Joseph Romm’s book “The Hype About Hydrogen” as being overly pessimistic. Now, another kindred spirit in the hydrogen industry is also taking the author to task. Greg Blencoe, CEO of Hydrogen Discoveries, Inc. has [...]
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Hydrogen minibuses are busting a move this week as one in the United Kingdom and one in the United States have staked separate claims. In Wales, there is a 16-seat minibus causing a stir that is powered by hydrogen fuel cell. This minibus was created by researchers at the University of Glamorgan and will be [...]
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Most of today’s hydrogen cars are also hybrid vehicles as well. I expect this trend to continue well into the very distant future. And, because most hydrogen cars are hybrids, battery technology plays a large role in the success of any vehicle that a manufacturer puts before the public. Researchers at the Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute [...]
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This week both the Canadians and British have set sail on hydrogen fuel cell boats. In Canada, Jim Harrington, president of AGO Electronics, put a 300-watt Horizon fuel cell system in a 19-foot sloop and sailed it successfully, putting out zero emissions. In the UK, today, the University of Birmingham is unveiling its fully functional [...]
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PEM fuel cells take note that there is a new player in town and that is the platinum-free device developed by Daihatsu. Daihatsu Motors is the minicar division of Toyota and they have come up with a less costly fuel cell that runs on hydrazine hydrate (N2H4H2O). To the chemically-challenged this means that a combination [...]
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Ontario, Canada and Bombardier Transportation are in talks to develop a hydrogen train up in the Great White North. In three years time, when the prototype hydrogen train is completed it is expected to run on the Toronto GO Transit system. Premier Dalton McGuinty made the announcement about the fuel cell train a couple of [...]
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On July 24, this year, I wrote a blog entry called “Tell Jay Leno to Get a Hydrogen Car“. Well, today the King of Late Night Comedy has one. Not that these two events are related, nor the fact that I asked you readers to email Jay and lobby him to get a vehicle. But, [...]
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This has been quite a few weeks for hydrogen land-speed records as in the past month, three such records have now fallen. First it was the Ford 999 setting the world land-speed record for production hydrogen cars at the Bonneville Salt Flats with a top end of 207.297 mph. Next, at the same venue, the [...]
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