Just north and west of Seoul, South Korea, a company called Foster and Partners has won the right to develop a green master plan community on the islands of KangHwa and OnJin-gun. The sustainable master plan is supposed to be an extension of the Incheon Free Economic Zone.
One of the islands, KangHwa, will be used [...]
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In April 2009, Daimler first made a small and mostly unheralded announcement that they would start production of a fuel cell car in the middle of 2009 that would start rolling out in limited production in 2010. Little was made of this at the time.
Now, Daimler has announced that 200 Mercedes F-Cell B-Class hydrogen fuel [...]
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A little earlier this summer India delivered the world’s cheapest car, the Tata Nano to its first customer. Tata also announced they are working on a hydrogen version of the same vehicle.
And this week, the Indian Oil Corporation announced they have set up a fueling station with a hydrogen and compressed natural gas blend in [...]
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Last week I talked about the California Fuel Cell Partnership T-shirt Slogan contest and the deadline is this coming Friday, August 28, 2009 so you’d better get cracking, or brainstorming as the case may be.
This week there is another contest for hydrogen lovers being offered by the National Hydrogen Association (NHA). This photo contest is [...]
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Some people have pondered if the recent California budget cuts would affect the Hydrogen Highway program in the Golden State. The answer according to the California Hydrogen Highway Network (CaH2Net) is no.
The California Air Resources Board (CARB) has announced their plans to award grants to four new hydrogen refueling stations. The stations will offer compressed [...]
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In April 2008, I had talked about how the University of Birmingham, UK was building the country’s only active hydrogen fueling station. The London station had been dismantled a few years earlier. The Birmingham hydrogen fueling station would support a few microcabs and presumably some of the 70 Honda FCVs that London had ordered as [...]
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A few days back I talked about West Virginia opening the first leg (meaning hydrogen fueling station) of a hydrogen corridor from Charleston to Pittsburgh, PA. According to Kanawha County Commission President Kent Carper the vehicles they were considering to convert to run on hydrogen could be from the sheriff’s department, Solid Waste Authority, recycling [...]
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If you like hydrogen cars (like I do) then you just may want to join in on the California Fuel Cell Partnership’s T-shirt Slogan Contest. The California Fuel Cell Partnership (CaFCP) is a consortium of automotive, energy, fuel cell and government members promoting hydrogen fuel cells as one of the solutions to greenhouse gas emissions, [...]
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Last Friday I had talked about the building of a hydrogen corridor from West Virginia to Pittsburgh, PA. What I had neglected to mention, however is that at the Yeager Airport in Charleston, WV one of the test vehicles will be a hydrogen powered forklift.
Now, many might not find the idea of hydrogen forklifts nearly [...]
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A couple of weeks ago I was wondering out loud if General Motor’s Project Driveway would survive given their cuts induced by the bankruptcy courts. According to CNET, GM’s plans to keep charging full steam ahead with hydrogen cars are safe, for now.
According to Alan Taub who takes over October 1, 2009 for Larry Burns, the [...]
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