In my last post, I had talked about a fleet of 3-wheel hydrogen vehicles called HyAlfa being rolled out in India. These vehicles use converted internal combustion engines (ICE) for power. Today I want to talk about a different company in India Mahindra & Mahindra Ltd., who has contracted Quantum Fuel Systems Technologies Worldwide Inc. [...]
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From Switzerland to California (and everywhere in-between) fuel cell buses have become increasingly common over the past few years. They have become so common in fact that I usually don’t write about individual rollouts anymore and lump them together as I’m doing in this blog post. In Switzerland there is a company called PostBus that [...]
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The SunLine Transit company out of Thousand Palms, California yesterday unveiled its 7th generation fuel cell in its production ready American Fuel Cell Bus. In order for the bus to be “Buy America Compliant” 60-percent of its components had to be manufactured within the U. S. This compliancy qualified SunLine for some Federal funding. However, [...]
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The HYFLEET: CUTE project in Europe has officially come to an end. HYFLEET: CUTE was a demonstration project that accomplished its goals of proving that hydrogen buses are indeed worthy alternative fuel vehicles worth pursuing via commercialization. According to me, “HyFLEET: CUTE is based upon the information garnered from three other projects, CUTE, ECTOS (Ecological [...]
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It’s true that Germany has been a beehive of activity these past 5 years when it comes to developing hydrogen cars, vehicles and the supporting infrastructure. Germany has far outpaced development of the same in the United States and Japan, its two closest competitors. And now Germany is doing it again by introducing four Mercedes-Benz [...]
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Over the past week and a half there has been a lot of news regarding hydrogen buses. So, I want to provide a summary to each story. The United Kingdom’s first hydrogen bus has been launched and will service London’s RV1 route. Seven more hydrogen powered buses will be added to the same route in [...]
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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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On July 2, 2010 I started wondering aloud where were all of the hydrogen fuel cell cars and buses that could have been spotlighted at the 2010 World Cup Soccer championship in South Africa. I basically stated that if the 2010 Youth Olympic Games in Singapore could showcase a single hydrogen powered bus then why [...]
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Retired comedian and the former King of Late Night TV, Johnny Carson used to make non-stop jokes about the city of Burbank, California. Before Jay Leno took over the Tonight Show, gave it to Conan and took it back, there was Johnny Carson cracking jokes from the studio located in “beautiful downtown Burbank.” But, now [...]
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Since I haven’t heard much about the Ford H2ICE (hydrogen internal combustion engine) shuttle buses that were rolled out between 2006 and 2008, I thought it was time for an update on this program. So, I contacted a spokesperson for Ford Motor Company Communications and a Ford H2ICE Service Engineer for an update. Here is [...]
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