Archives: Hydrogen Cars

According to Fuel Cell Works, General Motors has taken its Project Driveway campaign on the road to China. The Chevy Equinox Fuel Cell Vehicle was introduced this week in Beijing by this summer’s gold medal Olympian Wu Minxia and environmentalist and actress Liu Zi. The Project Driveway tour kicked off at the Olympic Water Cube • Read More »

According to Consumer Reports, the Toyota FCHV will begin consumer testing soon. General Motors, Honda and BMW have already put public drivers behind the wheels of their hydrogen vehicles. Not to be outdone, Toyota will also be putting the public behind of the wheel of its fuel cell version of the Toyota Highlander. This past • Read More »

At the Paris Auto Show, Suzuki has given a sneak peak of its SX4 fuel cell vehicle (FCV) plus the Suzuki Crosscage FCV motorcycle to eager car show fans. I had talked about the Suzuki SX4 FCV in July, 2008 and how it would be road tested in Japan. Now, Suzuki has decided to do • Read More »

A little less than a year ago, I talked about a hydrogen fuel cell Microcab H4 that was presented in London at the 10th Grove Fuel Cell Symposium. Now, five of these FC Microcabs have been presented to the University of Birmingham as part of a hydrogen fleet testing program. The hydrogen Microcabs will undergo • Read More »

Researchers at the University of Sunderland in the UK have converted a Nissan Almera to run on compressed hydrogen gas. The standard Almera was built by Nissan from 1995 to 2006 as a family car and in the U. S. the same vehicle is called the Sentra. The unveiling of the Hypower Nissan will be • Read More »

I’ve talked at length about the resistance to fuel cell vehicles from a technological standpoint, but have not really delved into the psychological resistance to hydrogen cars. I was reading this article titled, “Fuel Cells Not Exciting Car Makers in Germany” and the first thing that popped into my head was not the technological hurdles, • Read More »

On Friday, Toyota announced that it will begin leasing its FCHV-adv to Japan’s Ministry of the Environment plus a few other government entities. In early June, Toyota had announced that it had acquired certification from Japan’s Ministry of Land, Infrastructure and Transport to put this new, advanced vehicle on the road. Toyota has been working • Read More »

Tatra, a Czechoslovakian company, is the third oldest vehicle manufacturer in the world behind Daimler / Mercedes-Benz and Peugeot. Not to be confused with the ultra cheap Tata Motors from India, Tatra has come out with a new design concept (as in not yet a prototype) of a fuel cell vehicle called the 903 Fuel • Read More »

The Hydrogen Road Tour ’08 that I’ve been talking about over the past few weeks finished with style in Los Angeles this past Saturday. The procession of mostly fuel cell cars (except for the Hydrogen Beamer with ICE) pulled up to the Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum (host to two past Olympiads) around 12:30 pm to • Read More »

I first talked about Formula Zero racing two year ago almost to the day. Formula Zero is a hydrogen fuel cell go-cart style racing venue initiated by Dutch designers, Godert van Hardenbroek and Eelco Rietveld. Today starts off the first day of the 2008 Formula Zero Championship also called the World Premiere Rotterdam FZ-GP. The • Read More »