All of the major automakers have agreed to put a hydrogen fuel cell vehicle into the commercial marketplace by 2015, even if there is very little infrastructure to support them. In fact, Hyundai has beaten this deadline and is rolling out its FCEV’s now. But, the fuel cell vehicles which do, in fact, rollout for • Read More »
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ACAL Fuel Cell Delivers 300,000 Miles of Driving
July 10, 2013 | By Hydro Kevin Kantola | Comments Off on ACAL Fuel Cell Delivers 300,000 Miles of Driving | Filed in: Fuel Cells.One of the long-time issues with hydrogen fuel cells for cars has been durability. If a fuel cell has to compete with gasoline or diesel engines for customers then they need to last nearly as long if not excel in durability. Up until now this hasn’t been the case. ACAL Energy has recently created such • Read More »
U. S. Energy Independence Day July 10 – Save the Date!
July 9, 2013 | By Hydro Kevin Kantola | Comments Off on U. S. Energy Independence Day July 10 – Save the Date! | Filed in: Advocates.There is no official national energy independence day for the U. S., but there should be. Last week on July 4, Americans celebrated our traditional Independence Day which honored the Declaration of Independence which was adopted on July 4, 1776. On July 10, 2012 on this blog I asked, “Energy Independence Day – Which Day • Read More »
ITM Power Moves into California
July 3, 2013 | By Hydro Kevin Kantola | 3 Comments | Filed in: Hydrogen Fueling Stations.The last time I talked about the UK company ITM Power they were headed into the European market, targeting refueling for fuel cell forklifts. This time, however, they are headed to Cal-i-forn-eye-ay (California) developing hydrogen fueling stations for fuel cell cars. According to ITM Power, “… the energy storage and clean fuel company, is pleased • Read More »
Toyota to Show Its Commercial 2015 Fuel Cell Vehicle This November
July 2, 2013 | By Hydro Kevin Kantola | 2 Comments | Filed in: Hydrogen Cars.At the 2013 Tokyo Motor Show in November, Toyota expects to unveil its hydrogen fuel cell vehicle that will be for sale as early as 2014 (for the upcoming 2015 season). Toyota has already put the price of the car in the $50,000 range and yet they have also stated that it would be price • Read More »
Unique Catalysts Create Hydrogen from Water or Ethanol
June 20, 2013 | By Hydro Kevin Kantola | Comments Off on Unique Catalysts Create Hydrogen from Water or Ethanol | Filed in: Hydrogen Fuel Production.There are separate stories surfacing now about two different methods to create hydrogen: one using water and the other using ethanol as a feedstock. Scientists at Penn State University have discovered that nickel and phosphorus nanoparticles (pictured above) will catalyze water into hydrogen as efficiently as any non-platinum materials now in existence. According to Penn • Read More »
Bahrain’s First Hydrogen Fuel Cell Car Developed
June 19, 2013 | By Hydro Kevin Kantola | Comments Off on Bahrain’s First Hydrogen Fuel Cell Car Developed | Filed in: Hydrogen Cars.Bahrain is a tiny island-country off the Northeast coast of Saudi Arabia, a few miles Northwest of Qatar. And yet Bahrain has done something very uncommon in the Middle East and that is build a hydrogen fuel cell car. Students at the Bahrain University have developed a hydrogen vehicle which was on display at the • Read More »
UOW Using Artificial Leaf and Seawater to Create Hydrogen
June 18, 2013 | By Hydro Kevin Kantola | Comments Off on UOW Using Artificial Leaf and Seawater to Create Hydrogen | Filed in: Hydrogen Fuel Production.Researchers at the University of Wollongong (UOW) south of Sydney, Australia, are not the first folk to talk about using seawater to create hydrogen. And they are also not the first to develop an artificial leaf to do the same. But, nonetheless, the scientists at UOW (pictured above) think they have built a better mousetrap. • Read More »
California to Receive 7 New Hydrogen Fueling Stations
June 13, 2013 | By Hydro Kevin Kantola | 6 Comments | Filed in: Hydrogen Fueling Stations.The California Energy Commission approved grants of $18,690,000 for the building of 7 new hydrogen fueling station plus a few other hydrogen infrastructure upgrades. The major players, who must put up matching funds for the hydrogen fueling stations, include Linde LLC, Hydrogen Frontier Inc., Air Products and Air Liquide. Here is the breakdown: “Linde, LLC, • Read More »
SmartFuel Retail Hydrogen Dispenser Introduced by Air Products
June 12, 2013 | By Hydro Kevin Kantola | 1 Comment | Filed in: Hydrogen Fueling Stations.For years Air Products has been building hydrogen fueling stations and dispensers like the one on this page. Now, Air Products is introducing a new kind of compressed hydrogen dispenser. According to Air Products, “This advanced technology will be immediately incorporated into 10 new fueling stations to be built by Air Products in California starting • Read More »