Archives: Hydrogen Cars

H2X Australia is a company that has been working on some interesting new projects, with the aim being to build industrial vehicles and passenger cars using a fuel cell/ultracapacitor hybrid system. They expect to release an SUV model, dubbed “Snowy” in 2022-23. The company has a team of around 70 so far but has set • Read More »

The European Union has decided to take action on climate change. One recent example of this has been their talk of hydrogen fuel cells as a future means of powering cars. In a bid to show that they have vision in this area, a 6000km journey across Hamburg has taken place. This was to celebrate • Read More »

BMW has finally committed to the creation of a commercial hydrogen fuel cell car in the near future. This FC car has been over 2 1/2 decades in the making, with the German car maker working towards this point. Speaking about this was BMW Director of Development, Klaus Frölich, who said: “In the early ‘20s • Read More »

For the first time in their history, Mercedes-Benz has handed over their first ever GLC F-CELL vehicles to members of the German auto market. This new vehicle makes use of fuel cells and plug-in battery drives. With this latest release using plug-in technology to charge the vehicle, too, this is a very interesting step into • Read More »

  The last time I had talked about the Audi A7 H-Tron was back in August 2015 so this is an update as Audi expects to start rolling out the latest iteration of this fuel cell vehicle within the next 2 years or less. Audi is currently working on their 5th generation hydrogen fuel-cell car • Read More »

  Pininfarina has decided to make it official and bring their hydrogen fuel cell H2 Speed racecar from concept status to commercial status, rolling it out in limited numbers. I’ve talked about Pininfarina before, first in 2008 when they introduced their Sintesi hydrogen fuel cell vehicle prototype and second in 2016, about two years ago • Read More »

  I’ve talked about the Forze Delft hydrogen racing team many times before starting in 2008. Be that as it may, I think it is time for an update about the Forze VII and what the team is up to. In August 2017, the Forze hydrogen racing team had competed in the GRD SuperCarChallenge on • Read More »

Mercedes-Benz GLC F-Cell SUV is a plug-in hybrid fuel cell electric vehicle which is in pre-production and will be the first of its kind when it rolls out commercially in the summer of 2018. Here are the top 10 items you may not know about this vehicle: Both the fuel cell and large rechargeable lithium-ion • Read More »

Since 2013, Hyundai has been selling commercial hydrogen fuel cell vehicles. Today, Hyundai is selling its FCEV (Tucson Fuel Cell or ix35 Fuel Cell depending upon the market) in 18 different countries. This week, Hyundai had decided to tease us with another model of fuel cell vehicle. They will be fully unveiling it at the • Read More »

A fuel cell range extended electric vehicle (FC REEV) was introduced at the International Motor Symposium in Vienna. According to Magna International Inc., this combines the power of hydrogen and electric drives, which basically runs without any fossil fuels. In this case, it has a range of 500km before recharging or refueling. Magna demonstrated the • Read More »