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BMW Creating Limited Series x5 FCEV SUV in 2022

June 6, 2021 | By Hydro Kevin Kantola | Comments Off on BMW Creating Limited Series x5 FCEV SUV in 2022 | Filed in: Uncategorized.

While almost entirely known for their incredible range of flashy cars, BMW also has a range of SUVs that get a lot of positive attention. Fans of the BMW x5 SUV might be happy to know, then, that a new release of an FCEV version is coming in 2022. This release will not only be • Read More »

The Mooresville Hydrail Initiative and the little chamber that did

August 18, 2020 | By Stan Thompson | Comments Off on The Mooresville Hydrail Initiative and the little chamber that did | Filed in: Hydrail, Uncategorized.

by guest blogger Stan Thompson Archimedes is quoted as saying, “Give me a lever and a place to stand and I will move the earth.” Bell Telephone Laboratories gave mankind the transistor and—just as Thomas Jefferson foresaw— the free American pursuit of happiness (AKA the will to innovation) forged it into the Internet, daddy of all • Read More »

Hydrail versus the Tower of Babel

December 11, 2019 | By Stan Thompson | Comments Off on Hydrail versus the Tower of Babel | Filed in: Hydrail, Hydrogen Vehicles, Hyrail, Uncategorized.

by guest blogger Stan Thompson Thank you, Bill Vantuono, for your Railway Age, November 15, 2019, introduction to a long overdue American first:  San Bernardino’s history-making, Stadler-built hydrogen multiple unit or “HMU”.  It’s a bittersweet debut for those of us who worked for years—beginning in 2003—to add hydrail to Kitty Hawk as a North Carolina transportation • Read More »

Underwater Solar Cells Receive Boost in Making Hydrogen

May 26, 2019 | By Hydro Kevin Kantola | Comments Off on Underwater Solar Cells Receive Boost in Making Hydrogen | Filed in: Green Hydrogen, Uncategorized.

Underwater solar cells are being used to help create cheap hydrogen fuel directly from water. By using the power of the sun, the plan is simple: make sure that we can create hydrogen from sustainable, repeatable, ethical sources. And for many people, that is going to be this new plan that is being put together • Read More »

Shirtsleeves Hydrail Stations

September 26, 2018 | By Stan Thompson | Comments Off on Shirtsleeves Hydrail Stations | Filed in: History, Hydrail, Hydrogen Vehicles, Hyrail, Infrastructure, News, Uncategorized.

by guest blogger Stan Thompson On Sunday, September 16, 2018, at Bremervörde, in the State of Niedersachsen, Germany, I boarded the first intercity hydrail train—my dream since 2003! It was Alstom’s shiny new blue Coradia iLint Hydrogen Multiple Unit light rail train, wireless electric and silent as the wind turbines on the North German horizon • Read More »

Time for a hydrogen Lindbergh flight

July 30, 2018 | By Stan Thompson | Comments Off on Time for a hydrogen Lindbergh flight | Filed in: Fuel Cells, Hydrail, Hydrogen Aircraft, Myths, Uncategorized.

by guest blogger Stan Thompson (a version of this blog first appeared in my Mooresville Tribune column) Still hanging in the air is the sensationalism smoke (“Oh, the humanity!”) from the 1937 Hindenburg myth. It’s polluted the true hydrogen story for about 80 years too long.  Maybe  it’s time to clear the air by whistling-up • Read More »

National Hydrogen and Fuel Cell Day 2017 – A Big Thank You!

October 8, 2017 | By Hydro Kevin Kantola | Comments Off on National Hydrogen and Fuel Cell Day 2017 – A Big Thank You! | Filed in: News, Uncategorized.

October 8th is National Hydrogen & Fuel Cell Day every year now since the 114th U. S. Congress made a unanimous declaration pushing this day into existence on September 28, 2015. My website went live in late 2005 and I published my first blog post about hydrogen and fuel cells on April 05, 2006. In • Read More »

1st Interstate Hydrogen Highway in USA Inaugurated by Maiden Voyage

September 13, 2017 | By Hydro Kevin Kantola | Comments Off on 1st Interstate Hydrogen Highway in USA Inaugurated by Maiden Voyage | Filed in: Hydrogen Highways, Uncategorized.

Well, slap me silly and call me Sally (and never, ever call me Shirley), the long-shot fuel cell caravan inaugurating the 1st Interstate Hydrogen Highway in the USA came to fruition on Monday, September 11, 2017. With a lot of guts, determination and planning Michael P. Henning, Mike Strizki and Jed Dole (pictured top, left • Read More »

Eleventh International Hydrail Conference: a first look at the program

June 15, 2016 | By Stan Thompson | Comments Off on Eleventh International Hydrail Conference: a first look at the program | Filed in: Hydrail, Hydrogen Economy, Hydrogen Organizations, News, Uncategorized.

by guest blogger Stan Thompson This year’s “11-IHC” is the first event since the International Hydrail Conference series began in 2005 when a major focus of the agenda will be on hydrogen fuel cell passenger railway equipment already being manufactured and in service. (see http://www.hydrail.org) China now has two hydrail trams in production. One is • Read More »

It’s Official, the New Toyota FCV Is Called Mirai

November 18, 2014 | By Hydro Kevin Kantola | Comments Off on It’s Official, the New Toyota FCV Is Called Mirai | Filed in: Uncategorized.

Yesterday in Newport Beach, California Toyota President and CEO Akio Toyoda announced officially that the company’s new commercial fuel cell vehicle will be called Mirai (which means future). This isn’t a big surprise, since on July 31, 2014 word had leaked out unofficially that Toyota would be going with this name. But, wait, there’s more • Read More »