The Advanced Vehicle Research Center (AVRC) out of Raleigh, North Carolina has teamed up with the North Carolina State University Solar Center to come up with a design and build plan for a portable hydrogen fueling station that is free for the public to use. The development of the hydrogen fueling station plans was funded […]
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It’s groovy, baby, as Austin Powers might say that a hydrogen fueling station is opening at the University of Birmingham in the United Kingdom, which is currently the country’s only station. London had a temporary station that opened in 2005 by oil giant BP as part of the CUTE demonstration hydrogen bus program, but this […]
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Air Products has motored on down from Pennsylvania, where they are headquartered to Aiken County, South Carolina to supply the region with its first mobile hydrogen fueling station. The Aiken County Economic Development Partnership is developing a pickup truck that uses an internal combustion engine to run on compressed hydrogen gas and needs a way […]
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Last week I talked about Yellow taxis running on propane and the new Honda Civic GX CNG (compressed natural gas) vehicle that was making some people take notice. This has brought to mind the possibility of using the current natural gas infrastructure as a starting point for the hydrogen vehicle infrastructure.
Currently, most of the hydrogen […]
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To those people who think a large semi tractor trailer truck carrying compressed hydrogen would be akin to the Hindenburg if it were ever in a crash, here is the counterpoint to the Hindenburg fallacy.
A large truck this week carrying 25,000 lbs. of compressed hydrogen gas, did in fact, cross a couple of lanes and […]
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The first hydrogen and hythane fueling station is being built in Delhi, India for an expected rollout in the Fall of 2008. Hythane Company, LLC (a subsidiary of Eden Energy Limited) will be responsible for supplying and installing the station.
Hythane is a blend of hydrogen and compressed natural gas (CNG). I first reported on this […]
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The Show Me State is saying, “Show me the hydrogen!” The University of Missouri-Rolla (UMR) has already received a couple of hydrogen-powered Ford E-450 shuttle buses and is using them to transport students around campus. They are currently using a portable hydrogen fueling station to refuel the shuttles.
Beginning next year, however, the hydrogen shuttle buses […]
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On July 24, 2006, the California Air Resources Board (CARB) approved two schools, San Diego Unified School District and California State University, Los Angeles to develop and install two different hydrogen fueling stations on their campuses for educational purposes.
After spending $50,000 to research and develop the project, the Thurgood Marshall Middle School in San Diego, […]
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The same week that the Hyundai I-Blue was unveiled at the Frankfurt Motor Show in Germany, Hyundai also used its Tucson FCEV to cut the ribbon on the first hydrogen fueling station in Seoul, South Korea. This will make the second hydrogen fueling station to open in South Korea as the first opened in August […]
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Throughout the week, I receive email from visitors to the hydrogen cars website and blog. Jeffery C. wrote in to tell me his ideas for building hydrogen fueling stations in alternative locations. It’s this kind of outside-the-box thinking that will be necessary in order to make hydrogen cars a reality in this nation. Here are […]
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