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 »
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Fuel Cell Friend Al Gore Fails to Mention FCEVs in New Movie
August 9, 2017 | By Hydro Kevin Kantola | Comments Off on Fuel Cell Friend Al Gore Fails to Mention FCEVs in New Movie | Filed in: Celebrities, Political Issues.
Mega-environmentalist and former Vice President Al Gore has released his new movie, “An Inconvenient Sequel: Truth to Power” which I highly recommend viewing. The movie fast forwards from the first movie, “An Inconvenient Truth” (which rolled out in 2006 and told the tale in video and graphs about the fact that the planet is warming • Read More »
1st Interstate H2 Highway in the USA Rolls Out September 2017
July 11, 2017 | By Hydro Kevin Kantola | Comments Off on 1st Interstate H2 Highway in the USA Rolls Out September 2017 | Filed in: Hydrogen Highways.The 1st Interstate H2 Highway in the USA will roll out in September 2017. A hydrogen car motorcade will start at the ITM Power hydrogen fueling station in Riverside, California and end at Mandalay Bay in Las Vegas, Nevada. This year in Las Vegas, SOLARPOWER International (SPI) is joined by Hydrogen + Fuel Cells NORTH • Read More »
Magna FC REEV Review
April 18, 2017 | By Hydro Kevin Kantola | Comments Off on Magna FC REEV Review | Filed in: Hydrogen Cars.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 »
FEV Puts Fuel Cell Range Extender into Fiat 500
April 10, 2017 | By Hydro Kevin Kantola | Comments Off on FEV Puts Fuel Cell Range Extender into Fiat 500 | Filed in: Hydrogen Cars.FEV has developed a fuel cell range extender and successfully integrated it in the subcompact category of the current battery-electric vehicle (BEV). In order to demonstrate the compatibility of this technology, the engineers have decided to use a Fiat 500 based BEV, which represents a particular challenge in its existing space. They have come up • Read More »
Nikola One & Two Long Haul Hydrogen Fuel Cell Trucks
December 17, 2016 | By Hydro Kevin Kantola | 1 Comment | Filed in: Hydrogen Trucks.In April of 2016, I wrote a blog post titled “Where are all of the hydrogen trucks?” Now, as of December 2016, the Nikola Motor Company has answered this call by unveiling the Nikola One and Nikola Two long-haul, class 8 hydrogen fuel cell trucks. The Nikola Two is very similar to the Nikola One • Read More »
Hydrocarbon Wax + Microwaves = Hydrogen
October 29, 2016 | By Hydro Kevin Kantola | Comments Off on Hydrocarbon Wax + Microwaves = Hydrogen | Filed in: Hydrogen Fuel Storage.Even though hydrogen fuel tanks holding compressed H2 gas have been proven to be safe, still critics cite safety as one of the top reasons not to buy a fuel cell vehicle. So, in steps UK researchers from the universities of Oxford, Cambridge and Cardiff plus Saudi Arabia who have created a hydrocarbon wax that • Read More »
Whoa! It’s National Hydrogen & Fuel Cell Day, October 8th
October 7, 2016 | By Hydro Kevin Kantola | Comments Off on Whoa! It’s National Hydrogen & Fuel Cell Day, October 8th | Filed in: News.Whoa! It’s National Hydrogen & Fuel Cell Day, October 8th To check out how to celebrate, please go on over to: http://hydrogenandfuelcellday.org/
Will the Increasing BEV Range Kill the Hydrogen Car?
September 13, 2016 | By Hydro Kevin Kantola | Comments Off on Will the Increasing BEV Range Kill the Hydrogen Car? | Filed in: Competition.There have been a couple of big announcements lately regarding the increased range of BEV (battery electric vehicles). The new Tesla Model S is supposed to have a range of 315 miles and the new Chevy Bolt EV is said to have a range of 238 miles. So, the question of the day is will • Read More »
Autonomous Hydrogen Fuel Cell Vehicles Update
August 27, 2016 | By Hydro Kevin Kantola | Comments Off on Autonomous Hydrogen Fuel Cell Vehicles Update | Filed in: Hydrogen Cars.On May 5, 2015 I posted a blog named “Dude, Where’s My Hydrogen Fuel Cell Driverless Car?” A few months earlier Mercedes teased the public with its concept autonomous f 015 fuel cell vehicle (see photo at top) and this was the first indication that carmakers may want to combine high tech hydrogen fuel cell • Read More »