by guest blogger Stan Thompson Unless you have access to Dr. Who’s TARDIS or H. G. Wells’ Time Machine, you’ll have to depend on old texts to envision William Murdoch’s 1784 steam locomotive debut in Britain or Peter Cooper’s Tom Thumb, the first locomotive to run in America. But if you can afford an air [...]
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By guest blogger Stan Thompson It’s way too easy to miss really important events in the history of hydrogen railroading if they don’t contain the magic searchable word “hydrail”. I missed a huge one last month: the demonstration of Europe’s (and perhaps the world’s) first hydrail train—or maybe the first hydrolley—now planned for regular passenger [...]
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On January 10, 2011 I had talked about how CCM News was presenting its Eco-Trek weekly news video magazine in which the crew will circle the globe in a Mercedes B-Class F-Cell fuel cell vehicle uncovering stories of environmental importance. As an update, Eco-Trek has made its way through Europe, traveling 2,300 miles with zero [...]
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Okay, usually I don’t like to toot my own horn (or blog twice in one day), but this is a special occasion. This post marks the 1,000th post for this hydrogen fuel cars and vehicles blog. I started this blog on April 5, 2006 about a year after I had started the main website. Before [...]
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The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) Boulder Labs in Colorado recently opened the largest hydrogen test facility in the U. S. for evaluating how component parts of the hydrogen production, distribution and refueling infrastructure will react to H2 gas. NIST has opened the largest test facility to study the smallest atom, hydrogen, which [...]
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With the Big 3 auto bailout impending as early as sometime this week, one has to wonder if the individual GM, Ford and Chrysler hydrogen car programs will be affected? Of course, right now whatever moves the three automakers make in regard to restructuring, reorganizing and getting into the black is just speculation. General Motors [...]
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Illinois Democratic Representative Dan Lipinski and South Carolina Republican Bob Inglis have heralded through the House of Representatives the historic H-Prize Act of 2007 (H.R. 632). The H-Prize Act is part of the overall Energy Independence and Security Act that is expected to be signed by the White House before the end of the year. [...]
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A hydrogen cold weather test site is planned for the Selfridge Air National Guard (SANG) Base in Selfridge, Michigan. The test site is a collaboration among the U. S. Army, Hyundai-Kia and Chevron and is part of the U. S. DOE (Department of Energy) Controlled Hydrogen Fleet and Infrastructure Demonstration and Validation Program. Now, there’s [...]
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Most of today’s hydrogen cars are also hybrid vehicles as well. I expect this trend to continue well into the very distant future. And, because most hydrogen cars are hybrids, battery technology plays a large role in the success of any vehicle that a manufacturer puts before the public. Researchers at the Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute [...]
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I didn’t go to the Huffington Post directly. I found this particular blog post through the search engines while looking for stories on hydrogen. The post is called, “What Happened to Hydrogen?” and was written by Andrew J. Nusca. Like many, Mr. Nusca says he hadn’t heard much about hydrogen cars since the 2003 State [...]
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