Posted on January 31st, 2011 by stanthom
(by guest author Stan Thompson) One of the first visionary US manufacturers to “get” the hydrolley concept has been Proterra Inc., the Golden, Colorado, (and now Greenville, South Carolina) manufacturer of state-of-the-art, Green-tech transit vehicles. Proterra’s founder, Dale Hill, shared a vision of a fuel cell streetcar with me way back in 2007. The next [...]
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Posted on January 31st, 2011 by admin
In May 2010, Toyota declared that they will be able to build and sell a fuel cell vehicle (FCV) for $50,000 by 2015. This remark was met with a lot of criticism and disbelief. Now, Daimler has also jumped on the bandwagon saying that they will be able to build and sell their FCVs for [...]
Filed under: Hydrogen Cars | 7 Comments »
Posted on January 27th, 2011 by admin
Intelligent Energy is once again showing off their ENV fuel cell motorbike and this time at the Advanced Manufacturing Growth Summit in the UK. In fact, Intelligent Energy is no rookie when it comes to showing off their demonstration vehicles. They have been showing off the ENV for 6 years now. Intelligent Energy partnered with [...]
Filed under: Hydrogen Vehicles | 6 Comments »
Posted on January 26th, 2011 by admin
I’ve talked about the merits of using ammonia borane several times in the past as a hydrogen-rich chemical compound that may one day be used to refuel H2 cars. Now, a company called Cella Energy is using ammonia borane (NH3BH3) plus a process called coaxial electrospinning or electrospraying to either supply pure hydrogen to fuel [...]
Filed under: Hydrogen Fuel Production | 3 Comments »
Posted on January 25th, 2011 by admin
While the Nissan Leaf and Chevy Volt and other BEVs and PHEVs are grabbing all the headlines and getting all the glory hydrogen is quietly making headway around the globe. For instance, in Japan, a country that already has a hydrogen highway program already in place and is expanding this rapidly they have just launched [...]
Filed under: Hydrogen Economy | No Comments »
Posted on January 21st, 2011 by admin
Every once in a while someone will contact me with a unique idea where I feel compelled to publish it on this blog. Kim E. referenced an earlier post about hydrogen cooperatives and wanted to put her own spin on this idea. Kim E. “Co-op fuel stations, Co-op farm supply, farms, farms use the co-ops [...]
Filed under: Hydrogen Fuel Distribution | 6 Comments »
Posted on January 20th, 2011 by admin
The chemical engineers at California Institute of Technology (Caltech) in Pasadena, California, which is also the academic home to NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL), have been doing a little home cooking recently to produce hydrogen. In fact, what the engineers have developed is a modified self-cleaning over with an intense magnifying glass that uses solar [...]
Filed under: Hydrogen Fuel Production | 1 Comment »
Posted on January 19th, 2011 by admin
Some will say that the future hydrogen car, the Chase 2053 flies under the face of science fiction. And they may be right. But this future flight of fancy opens up the doors of what hydrogen cars could look like in another 40 years. The Chase 2053, which drives and flies using a hydrogen-powered jet [...]
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Posted on January 17th, 2011 by admin
Since this is celebrated as Martin Luther King Day across the U. S. I thought I would put my own hydrogen car spin on this special day. It starts out with Dr. King’s famous “I Have a Dream” speech. And my apologies upfront to the late Dr. King, his family and the American people for [...]
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Posted on January 14th, 2011 by admin
Coca-Cola Incorporated has purchased, received and are using 37 Plug Power GenDrive fuel cell powered Caterpillar lift trucks at their 250,000 square foot facility in San Leandro, California. This is their second such commercial order. The first was at the Charlotte, NC production center in 2009 where they purchased 40 such vehicles. To add to [...]
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