Yesterday I was reading news that at the Washington DC Consumer Electronics Show two products by Ford were getting a lot of buzz. The first was the 2012 Ford Focus Electric car which is supposed to roll into showrooms later this year. The second product creating a lot of buzz in the MyFordMobileApp. Now, if [...]
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The wonderful thing about hydrogen cars is that they can be like any other car. They can be street legal vehicles tooling down the city streets or taking a long road trip on the highways or they can be used as racecars. There are two different hydrogen racecar events that have caught my eye recently. [...]
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There is an article that caught my eye at sfbg.com that talks about the hydrogen powered AC Transit buses running in Northern California plus the new fuel cell buses on the way. But it’s not the buses that made me take notice nor is it the fact that AC Transit is starting to use solar [...]
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In the past, I’ve talked about various student contests involving designing model hydrogen fuel cell cars. Since I believe that the students of today will be making the hydrogen car breakthroughs of tomorrow, I enjoy covering such subjects. The fourth annual Hydrogen Fuel Cell Model Car Challenge was held in Union County, New Jersey in [...]
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Not only is the hydrogen car industry being pressured by outside competition such as electric cars and those that run on biofuels, but there is competition within the hydrogen car industry itself. Many people are anxious to get going on building a supporting infrastructure to support hydrogen cars. Yet others balk at the idea, when [...]
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This is almost poetic in a sense. I can’t tell you how many times I’ve heard people say (including myself) that hydrogen cars are almost here but a lack of refueling infrastructure is holding them back. Two days ago, the New York Times published an article titled, “Plug-In Cars Are Almost Here, but Charging Stations Lag.” [...]
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This is the second part of an email I received over the weekend from Tom B. of the Clearlight Foundation. The email was a bit long for this blog so I broke it over two parts. Here is what Tom B. continues to say: “Natural gas today is primarily a non-renewable, fossil fuel. But people [...]
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Over the Weekend I received a lengthy email (which I will post of the next 2 days) from Tom B. of the Clearlight Foundation advocating for Natural Gas (NG) fuel cell vehicles that talks about using compressed natural gas CNG or even liquefied natural gas (LNG) instead of hydrogen as a fuel feedstock. I’ve decided [...]
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According to All Electric Cars (AEC), an EV advocacy website, Nissan has decided to swear off hydrogen cars in favor of all electric vehicles. According to this EV advocacy group, the Renault-Nissan alliance has decided that battery electric vehicles are the future even with their limited range and long recharging times. According to AEC, “French [...]
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The EcoCar: The NeXt Challenge is a 3-year competition among the advanced vehicle engineering departments of 17 different colleges nationwide. The parties putting on this competition include the U. S. DOE, General Motors and the Argonne National Laboratory. The point is to take a GM Saturn Vue vehicle and design and build an advance zero [...]
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