Archives: Hydrogen Cars

The hydrogen fuel cell racecar that we’ve all be waiting for has finally been unveiled. A team of about 70 students from Delft University of Technology in the Netherlands have created the Forze VI, a full-size hydrogen powered racecar that can achieve a top speed of 220 km/h and the only emissions are steam and • Read More »

This weekend, August 17 – 18, 2013, the Aston Martin Rapide S hydrogen hybrid racecar (pictured above) will be running at Shelsley Walsh in the Midlands, United Kingdom. The Rapide S is a bi-fuel vehicle that can run on either compressed hydrogen gas or gasoline. On May 01, 2013, the Rapide S completed its first • Read More »

The Shell Eco-Marathon Asia 2013 has been called off because of inclement weather. But, be that as it may, the development of student-built hydrogen cars continues. One notable hydrogen car (pictured above) is the one built by the estudiantes at Aston University in Birmingham, UK. Besides developing a new fuel cell for the car, the • Read More »

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 »

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 »

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 »

On February 26, 2013 I had talked about how Hyundai had rolled their first ix35 FCEV fuel cell vehicles off the assembly line at its Ulsan factory in Korea. Now, 15 of those vehicles have been shipped and delivered to Copenhagen, Denmark. According to Hyundai, “Hyundai Motor Company has today delivered the first of its • Read More »

Thanks to Google Translate for this story in French (and out of France) that is now readable in English. The hydrogen fuel cell remote control car (pictured above) ran for 2,357 laps or 212.1 km at the 24 hours of St. Jo green race recently. Using solar power and rainwater, high school students fueled the • Read More »

Here is an interesting press release that came across my desk this morning. The student race team at Delft University of Technology in the Netherlands is raising money for their hydrogen car by “crowd funding”. Press Release Delft – 15-05-2013. The Forze student race team of the Delft University of Technology in the Netherlands is • Read More »

Tongji Automotive Design & Research Institute, a part of Tongji University in Shanghai, China has developed a fuel cell concept car they have named the Volare (pictured above). The vehicle was premiered last week at the Auto China 2013 Motor Show. Developed by both Chinese and German scientists at the University, there are not a • Read More »