Category: Hydrogen Cars

Well, it’s about time that Swiss company Swatch, known for their oversized and colorful watches, has decided to sell hydrogen fuel cell cars. A few years ago Swatch teamed up with Daimler AG corporation to come out with a wacky version of the Smart Car. This time, however Swatch has teamed up with its subsidiary […]

The 2012 Shell Eco-Marathon will take place this year in Houston, TX from March 29 – April 1, 2012 – and this is no joke. This year the Mizzou Hydrogen Car Team will compete in one of the races with their third generation TigerGen III. The MU team has chosen to compete in the UrbanConcept […]

Sometimes it’s refreshing to get a firsthand account from a non-professional about what it’s like to drive a hydrogen car. This firsthand account takes place in Norway where the temperatures are around 9 degrees F and a Hyunda Tucson ix35 hydrogen car is the vehicle being tested. According to Fuel Cell Works, “The car was […]

At the Geneva Auto Show this week, Didier Leroy, head of Toyota’s European operations said, “We are preparing to be able to produce tens of thousands per year in the 2020s.” Toyota is also showcasing their super-secret pinky swear hydrogen fuel cell FCV-R concept car of which they have released few details. In December 2011, […]

Mercedes and Lexus recently have posted separate videos about their hydrogen cars and the minimal impact to the environment they each have. On the Mercedes a Canon 5D Mark II digital SLR camera was mounted on one side of the vehicle and the other sides of the vehicle was covered with LED projectors which gives […]

Students at Colorado State University (CSU) will be building the only hydrogen fuel cell vehicle which is also a plug-in electric vehicle. The students will be using a donated 2013 Chevy Malibu for the conversion and entering it into the three-year EcoCAR 2 competition. The EcoCAR 2 competition is being sponsored by the Argonne National […]

Over the past year I’ve exchanged a few emails with Jonas Grooten of HyEngine Solutions. Instead of working on fuel cells, HyEngine converts vehicles with internal combustion engines to run on hydrogen. Here is what Jonas Grooten had to say in his last email: “My colleague, Olivier Vanhaelen, asked me to give you an update […]

One of the last times I had talked about Middle Tennessee State University (MTSU) and their inventive professor Dr. Clifton Ricketts was in April 2007. At that time Dr. Ricketts was figuring out how to break his own land-speed record for hydrogen cars at the Bonneville Salt Flats in Utah. This time, however, the goal […]

A group of Japanese students at Osaka Sangyo University took it upon themselves to build a hydrogen car and unveiled it in Tokyo last Friday. They didn’t have the usual support system in place in which to do this. According to the Mainichi Daily News, “This is the first successful fuel cell electric vehicle project […]

While critics are disregarding the wisdom of rolling out hydrogen fuel cell vehicles in the year 2015, Mercedes (and all of the other major automakers) is plunging straight ahead. Assuming that we all make it past the Mayan end of times prophecy for December 21, 2012, perhaps the dawning of the Age of Aquarius is […]