As the Obama Administration is slashing the budget and zeroing out hydrogen car development, the European Union is upping the ante. Last week I talked about how President Obama and the DOE’s Energy Secretary Steven Chu chopped the hydrogen budget down 60-percent to $68.2 million and this money is for stationary fuel cell development and [...]
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This is a good news / bad news blog post. The good news is that a Formula Zero racing cart powered by hydrogen set a new unofficial record on a 1/8 mile track. At the Belgian Circuit Zolder, students from Leuven drove this distance in a mere 10.4 seconds compared to the official record of [...]
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Just when I talked about how things weren’t as bad as they seemed a few days ago in regard to the federal hydrogen car budget, things have indeed gotten worse. On April 27, I talked about how the Department of Energy’s published budget in 2009, went down to $177.7 million from $211.9 million in 2008.
But, [...]
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Bloomberg.com is reporting that President Obama has turned a cold shoulder to hydrogen cars in favor of plug-in electric vehicles (PHEVs). According to Bloomberg, Honda is also concerned of this shift from the Bush regime who favored hydrogen to the Obama team who favors PHEVs and battery electric vehicles (BAVs).
But how does Bloomberg make this [...]
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In case you missed it, President Obama was in Southern California yesterday, first at the Southern California Edison Electric Vehicle Technical Center in Pomona and then on the Tonight Show with Jay Leno in Burbank.
While at the electric car center in Pomona, President Obama said it was good to get out of Washington to “recharge [...]
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The U. S. automotive bailout is not popular with everyone. Some people say that we should let the North American car companies fail and then let the foreign automakers take over. Others say the U. S. automakers are too big to fail, citing that not only will companies like GM and Chrysler workers be affected [...]
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In 2008, there was $281 million allocated for the Hydrogen Fuel Initiative under former President Bush. This funding was for research, development and demonstration of hydrogen and fuel cell technologies.
The report itself is an extremely long series of PDF files covering the many different sections. So, I’ve linked to the overview of this report and [...]
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Two days ago I talked about how newbie New York Congressman Eric Massa had decided to drive from upstate New York (Corning) to be sworn-in at Washington DC. The 280-mile drive was accomplished in a Chevy Equinox Fuel Cell which has a range of around 200 miles.
So, today the New York Times is reporting a [...]
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Eric Massa, a new Congressman from upstate New York is driving a Chevy Equinox Fuel Cell vehicle today from his home in Corning to Washington DC for the swearing-in ceremony. The Democratic Congressman is making the 282-mile trip to promote the creation of green energy jobs in the 29th district where the Equinox FCV is [...]
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A day after millions of Americans rush to the Post Office to pay their taxes or struggle to push their forms over the Internet onto overloaded IRS servers, the U. S. Senate will hold a briefing on the future of hydrogen technology in this country. Senators Byron Dorgan (D) and Lindsey Graham (R) plus Representative [...]
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