The National Hydrogen Association (NHA) and U. S. Fuel Cell Council (USFCC) have merged. They are joining forces in order to accelerate the development and commercialization of hydrogen and fuel cell technologies. The newly formed entity will be called the FCHEA (Fuel Cell and Hydrogen Energy Association). According to FCHEA co-chairman Mike McGowan, “The merger [...]

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Another company is getting wise to the fact that building an all-electric vehicle will not do well in the marketplace because of its limited range. So like other companies Volvo has decided to add a hydrogen fuel cell range extender to expand the range of the vehicle by about 150 miles. The fuel cell will [...]

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Several years ago I talked about Mike Strizki building the first hydrogen home in New Jersey. Mr. Strizki also has a prototype hydrogen car in his garage. But, since service called, Strizki, CTO of The Essential Element, decided to help Haiti with hydrogen power. The Hydra system that Strizki brought to Haiti will be powered [...]

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RE Hydrogen Ltd of Great Britain has received an award of $39,000 USD from the Technology Strategy Board, UK to scale up their electrolyzer into a commercial unit that can supply hydrogen to a fuel cell vehicle. The current electrolyzer prototype is 13-percent more efficient and costs 93-percent less than other comparable electrolyzers on the [...]

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The U. S. Hydrogen Highway system started in California. One of the reasons is that California is known to have some of the most stringent vehicle emissions standards in the country (as well as pollution from cars). So, in order to battle pollution from cars, California has turned to alternative fuel vehicles in a big [...]

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In my last blog post I talked about how China was charging forward with fuel cell vehicles. At the Austria Tech Week event held at the Expo Shanghai 2010 in China, a company called AVL rolled out its Fuel Cell Commuter (FCC). The AVL FCC is basically a battery electric car that uses a hydrogen [...]

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As the U. S. has faltered in auto sales across the board recently, China still continues in strong production and sales. In fact, China is so strong that some are wondering if there is a bubble looming for this country of 1.3 billion people. But, what has been under-reported by the mainstream media is that [...]

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I’ve talked about high temperature cracking of water to create hydrogen before. I’ve also talked about adding a catalyst such as aluminum or magnesium to aid the cracking of water into hydrogen. Now a Japanese company, FUKAI Environmental Research Institute has found a way to do both and do so at low cost. According to [...]

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In an interesting twist of events, the same day that SunHydro announces its grand opening of the East Coast Hydrogen Highway, Shell Oil has announced the closing of its hydrogen fueling stations on the East Coast. Is this due to coincidence, competition or something else? I’ve talked about SunHydro’s East Coast Hydrogen Highway before and [...]

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Well there have been some wacky designs in the car world as any trade show will tell you. Concept cars are pretty prevalent there. But, concept buses are another matter altogether. This futuristic concept bus was invented by designer Peter Simon. The Credo E-Bone is powered by a combination of hydrogen fuel cells and lithium [...]

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