Category: Hydrogen Cars

Ford Motor Company has rolled out 30 Focus Fuel Cell Vehicles (FCVs) across the U. S., Canada and Europe, logging more than 180,000 miles in test data on the cars. Like many other of the major auto manufacturers who are developing hydrogen cars, one of the biggest challenges has been issues with starting the fuel […]

On January 8, 2006 at the North American International Auto Show in Detroit, Michigan, Honda announced it will begin commercial production of its Honda FCX hydrogen fuel cell vehicle within the next 3 to 4 years in Japan. Japan currently has a dozen or so hydrogen fueling stations, either public or private, throughout the country. […]

There’s been a myth running around for years that hydrogen cars run on water. Hydrogen cars, in fact, run on either compressed or liquid hydrogen. But, this fact may have just given way to the myth as a company called Hydrogen Power International has stated that they, in fact, are creating a hydrogen vehicle that […]

Hydrogen car manufacturers are coming out of their shells a bit and giving more test drives recently. Nissan Motors is offering up its X-Trail FCV every weekend over the next year at its headquarters in Tokyo, Japan for those who wish to take it for a test drive. The test drives will serve to promote […]

Honda has been using the concept of life cycle assessment (LCA) in order to reduce the carbon dioxide emissions throughout the life cycle of the car including the production of the vehicle. Part of the LCA concept includes producing bio-fabrics to be used for the interiors of the cars in order to reduce C02 emissions. […]

Danish company Folkecenter has converted a Ford Focus 2-liter gasoline engine to run on hydrogen. The project received support from the Hydrogen Program of the Danish Energy Agency along with some other foreign laboratories. Unlike other hydrogen ICE engines, this particular car starts up using gasoline, then switches to hydrogen. This helps with a soft-start, […]

Yesterday, I mentioned ethanol as a good interim step to provide relief at the gas pumps from high oil prices now and in the near future with hydrogen technology being 5 years away. Another interesting scenario would be the ramping up of ethanol cars and infrastructure now as a natural transition to hydrogen cars at […]

The Technical University of Denmark (DTU) is making significant headway in hydrogen car technology. First, researchers at DTU have discovered a hydrogen tablet that stores hydrogen inexpensively and safely allowing drivers of hydrogen cars and vehicles to drive 400 miles using a normal-size fuel tank. According to the DTU researchers, the tablet is so safe […]