Category: Hydrogen Cars

With all the publicity about hydrogen fuel cell vehicles that has been bandied about in the media, what is often lost in the shuffle is that automobiles with internal combustion engines (ICE) can also be converted to run on hydrogen. A couple of businesses have been quietly converting cars and other vehicles to run on […]

The X-Prize, in general, was created to promote and reward radical technological breakthroughs that benefit humanity. In 2004, Burt Rutan and Microsoft Co-founder Paul Allen won the $10 million Anasari X-Prize when they built and launched the SpaceShipOne, the first private spacecraft to fly into space. Now, the Automotive X-Prize has been launched to encourage […]

When cruising the Internet, looking for items of interest to a hydrogen car audience, I stumbled upon an interesting debate from 2004 between Dr. Daniel Sperling and Dr. Joseph Romm. Sperling is the founding Director of the Institute of Transportation Studies and Professor of Civil Engineering and Environmental Science and Policy at the University of […]

The Morgan LifeCar is getting a new life at next year’s Geneva Motor Show. The specialty carmaker who hand-builds all of its automobiles has been working on the LifeCar for, what seems like, a lifetime. The LifeCar will be built upon Morgan’s traditional wooden frame, yet will incorporate a hydrogen fuel cell propulsion system into […]

The Giugiaro Vadho concept, a hydrogen fuel cell car that is in the design stages only, will debut at the 2007 Geneva Motor Show. Though just a computer rendition of a hydrogen car, the Giugiaro Vadho, conceptualized in Turin, Italy, shows off the design capabilities and flexibility possible when one removes a typical internal combustion […]

There is a cherry-red Ford Mustang that has been making the rounds that is equipped with a hydrogen injection system that helps the car burn fuel more efficiently and boost gas mileage. The invention of this hydrogen injection system is Larocque, Jean-Louis who holds the U. S. patent 6311648 for this invention. The system works […]

A Nissan X-Trail FCV has been delivered to Kanagawa Toshi Kotsu Ltd., in Japan to be part of their hydrogen fuel cell powered chauffer-driven fleet. According to Nissan, this is the first time a fuel cell vehicle has been used on a for hired-car basis. This bold move is another step that Nissan has taken […]

Mihai Panaitescu, from Turin, Italy won the Peugeot Design Contest 2007 with his computer-generated model of the new Peugeot Flux hydrogen-powered automobile. The 20-year-old Romanian student is the youngest ever to win the contest. The word “Flux” refers to the daily ebb and flows of our complicated lives. The purpose of the Peugeot Flux design […]

The Hydrogen Electric Racing Federation has announced its specifications for the cars that will be competing in the first Hydrogen 500 race in 2009. The two main criteria are that the cars use a hydrogen fuel cell to power an electric motor, (which then turns the wheels of the car) and compressed hydrogen gas at […]

According the German marketing firm PULS, hybrid and hydrogen cars are the top choices for buyers this year. Out of more than 3,500 respondents to the survey, hybrid vehicles were favored by 42.7-percent and hydrogen cars were favored by 41.9-percent. This is particularly significant for hydrogen cars since not one hydrogen car has been sold […]