Archives: Hydrogen Fueling Stations

With the 2010 Winter Olympics in Vancouver, BC, Canada just underway, and hydrogen fuel cell buses delivering passengers between cities, there is already similar planning underway for the 2012 Summer Olympics in London. On this past Friday I had talked about the UK Hydrogen Highway system developing in both South Wales and north in Scotland. • Read More »

In August and September 2009 I had talked about how South Korea was shaking up their country by installing additional hydrogen fueling stations. In August it was announced that two separate master planned communities in South Korea would be getting H2 fueling stations. Then in September I had talked about how South Korea’s first landfill • Read More »

When it comes to hydrogen fueling and H2 transportation, the typical scenario is that one company will build the hydrogen car while another company such as an oil or specialty gas company will put up the hydrogen fueling station. Hydrogenics is one of the rare exceptions that does both. Hydrogenics has just delivered another fuel-cell • Read More »

The first Czech hydrogen fueling station has opened its door for operation in Neratovice, central Bohemia. This adds one more H2 fueling station to the European Union Hydrogen Highway system. The Czech Republic borders Austria to the south and Germany to the west, which both have multiple hydrogen fueling stations. The new Czech H2 station • Read More »

Air Products, one of the largest specialty gas companies in the world and one of the largest suppliers of hydrogen gas, has decided to reinvent the H2 gas pump for cars. In the past I’ve talked about how large industrial specialty gas companies could one day replace Big Oil. One of the problems is that • Read More »

The San Francisco International Airport (SFO) is planning to build a public hydrogen fueling station to provide fuel for airport shuttle buses and San Francisco Municipal Transportation Authority hybrid buses. The California Air Resources Board (CARB) is partially funding this project with $1.7 million. Linde North America, one of the largest builders of hydrogen stations • Read More »

The Glenn Research division of NASA has decided to build and install a hydrogen refueling station based on renewable energy in downtown Cleveland. The hydrogen fueling station will use water and wind from Lake Erie to create the hydrogen. Solar power will also be used. The water from Lake Erie will be split into hydrogen • Read More »

BMW at its U. S. corporate home at Woodcliff Lake, N.J., has decided to open its own hydrogen fueling station. Hydrogen fuel cell cars are talked about so often that one can easily forget that not all hydrogen cars have fuel cells. Take for instance the BMW Hydrogen 7 dual fuel vehicle that has an • Read More »

Distributed Energy Systems, which owns both Northern and Proton Energy Systems has been awarded a $1.8 million U. S. Army contract to put up one or more hydrogen fueling stations. If the hydrogen station being developed for the military is similar to the one already developed and in use by Proton in Las Vegas (pictured) • Read More »