Category: 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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

On April 16, 2013 I had talked about the Aston Martin Rapide S hydrogen hybrid dual fuel car and its upcoming 24-Hours of Nürburgring Race. Are we there yet? Well, not quite but almost. The Rapide S hydrogen, however, has completed a test lap at the Nurburgring’s Nordschleife. The test drive went smoothly and no […]

Ever since the 2011 Tōhoku earthquake and tsunami, Japan has been stepping up its game in regard to alternative energy. Emergency preparedness, disaster management and a desire for green energy are driving Japan’s efforts. In the past couple of years, Japan has made great strides in powering homes and businesses with fuel cells. And, now […]

Formerly known by other Toyota employees as “Mr. Hybrid Synergy Drive”, Katsuhiko Hirose has now been given another tag, “Mr. Hydrogen.” Mr. Hirose is in charge of the hydrogen car program for Toyota and was the key player in the Japanese carmaker joining the London Hydrogen Partnership (LHP). The LHP is heavily involved in developing […]

I’ve mentioned Dr. Cliff Ricketts several times in this blog starting in 2007. The last time I mentioned the professor and hydrogen car advocate was in 2012, when he took some of his Middle Tennessee State University students on a hydrogen-fueled road trip from Savannah, GA to Long Beach, CA. This year, Dr. Ricketts conducted […]