SunHydro and Toyota Partner on East Coast Hydrogen Highway

In January, I first talked about SunHydro and Proton Energy Systems teaming up to build an East Coast Hydrogen Highway System from Portland, Maine down to Orlando, Florida. Now, SunHydro has added Toyota as a partner as well. Wallingford, Connecticut is the headquarters of Proton Energy Systems and is the site of the first SunHydro [...]

Vision Industries Poised for Zero Emissions Corridor in SoCal

I’ve talked about the Vision Industries Tyrano hydrogen fuel cell hybrid big rig truck many times before. The goal for the company to is clean up the diesel emissions around the Port of Long Beach and Port of Los Angeles in Southern California (SoCal) using their zero emissions vehicles. The major highway leading out of [...]

Italian Hydrogen Highway Starting to Take Shape

Three weeks ago I had talked about the Brenner Pass A22 in Italy becoming a corridor for hydrogen fueling stations. Now it has been publicized that Acta S.p.A. has signed an exclusive supply agreement with Girelli Bruni S.p.A., “…for the supply of photovoltaic installations and integrated hydrogen generators for the Italian service station sector.” According [...]

Alfa Romeo MiTo FCVs Help Hydrogen European Lighthouse Project

Since the Norway Hynor hydrogen highway project has come to a close, proving the concept that hydrogen cars can indeed traverse steep elevation changes and extremes in temperature what’s the next step? The next step is to carry the torch and start a new project that involves the Scandinavian Hydrogen Highway project, the European Hydrogen [...]

European Hydrogen Hwy Walks the Walk with Brenner Motorway

The Brenner Motorway (or Brenner Pass E45, European designation) or A22, the Italian designation is about to become hydrogen-friendly. The Pass which has a long history dating back to the Romans crossing the Alps from Austria into Italy are about to make modern history by installing hydrogen stations in five locations along the motorway. The [...]

Europe Pulling Out Stops on Hydrogen Car Infrastructure

The European Commission Fuel Cells and Hydrogen Joint Undertaking has announced that it has $60.5 million USD in funding to grant towards hydrogen cars, refueling stations, production, distribution plus stationary power generation. Of this amount, two-thirds will go towards the hydrogen transportation marketplace. In the past I’ve talked about both the European Hydrogen Highway system [...]

East Coast Hydrogen Highway Revisited

At the National Hydrogen Association (NHA) Conference and Expo in Long Beach, California this week, I had the pleasure of meeting Robert Friedland, President and CEO of Proton Energy, Michael Grey, President of SunHydro and Tom Sullivan, founder and chairman of both Proton Energy and SunHydro. Now, in January 2010, I had already talked about [...]

East Coast Hydrogen Highway Update

In January 2010, I had first talked about the East Coast Hydrogen Highway system being developed by SunHydro. The New York Times has now added a few details about the plan including the company’s founder and how the plan is to be financed. In my last blog post, I roughly calculated the farthest distance between [...]

United Kingdom Hydrogen Highway Expands

I’ve previously talked about the Scottish Hydrogen Highway and the South Wales Hydrogen Highway in development. I’ve also talked about how hydrogen powered taxis are coming to London for the 2012 Olympics. And now, I would like to talk about London’s Hydrogen Highway system that is being built not only to support the black taxis [...]

South Wales in the UK to Have Hydrogen Highway on the M4

On the west of the United Kingdom fuel cell vehicles may one day travel down the M4 Hydrogen Highway. This will be part of a larger renewable fueling infrastructure that is being built for alternative fuel cars in the area. Wales has been designated a Low Carbon Economic Area (LCEA) for hydrogen fuel. The ministers [...]