Proton Energy Systems has announced a $1.25 million contract with the U. S. Missile Defense Agency (MDA) to build a high-altitude lighter-than-air prototype powered by hydrogen. The hydrogen aircraft will be unmanned, un-tethered and gas-filled and use a PEM fuel cell stack plus solar energy to power the vehicle. The PEM fuel cell stack will • Read More »
Archives: Hydrogen Vehicles
Hydrogen Buses Busting through the Gas Ceiling
September 28, 2006 | By Hydro Kevin Kantola | Comments Off on Hydrogen Buses Busting through the Gas Ceiling | Filed in: Hydrogen Buses, Hydrogen Vehicles.Well, first there was the “glass ceiling” comprised of men in top-level management positions keeping qualified women from busting through, but when we talk about energy for the transportation industry, there instead is a “gas ceiling” that is keeping other types of alternative energy sources from busting through. Like other types of hydrogen vehicles that • Read More »
Brazil Having Carnival with Hydrogen Buses
August 30, 2006 | By Hydro Kevin Kantola | Comments Off on Brazil Having Carnival with Hydrogen Buses | Filed in: Hydrogen Buses, Hydrogen Vehicles.Brazil has been in the various stages of planning for the past three years and is expected in 2007 to roll out eight 90-passenger hydrogen buses for testing in Sao Paulo and also in Rio de Janeiro the following year. The eight hydrogen fuel cell buses are expected to log about 600,000 miles of testing • Read More »
Hydrogen Airplanes Taking Flight into the Future
August 28, 2006 | By Hydro Kevin Kantola | Comments Off on Hydrogen Airplanes Taking Flight into the Future | Filed in: Hydrogen Aircraft, Hydrogen Vehicles.Boeing has just announced that it is developing a light aircraft powered by hydrogen fuel cells with hopes of making the greenest passenger airplane to fly to-date. Boeing is teaming up with Intelligent Energy, fuel cell maker and manufacturer of the ENV hydrogen motorcycle. In order to overcome the thrust needed for take-offs, the hydrogen • Read More »
Ford in Production of E-450 Hydrogen Shuttle Buses
July 21, 2006 | By Hydro Kevin Kantola | Comments Off on Ford in Production of E-450 Hydrogen Shuttle Buses | Filed in: Hydrogen Buses, Hydrogen Vehicles.On June 12, 2006 I had talked about how Ford was delivering five E-450 hydrogen shuttle buses to the Palm Springs, California region to be operated by the Agua Caliente Band of Cahuilla Indians. Ford is now in production of 20 of the V-10 powered hydrogen shuttle buses, but the first eight are scheduled to • Read More »
GM Goes Postal with Hydrogen Vehicles
July 20, 2006 | By Hydro Kevin Kantola | Comments Off on GM Goes Postal with Hydrogen Vehicles | Filed in: Hydrogen Vehicles.In Springfield, Virginia and the Washington D. C. suburbs, postal carrier Bob Sisk delivers mail with the aid of a General Motors HydroGen3 hydrogen vehicle. According to the Associated Press, Sisk, 62 is carrying letters and packages as part of a demonstration project that is aimed at testing the feasibility of hydrogen vehicles and infrastructure. • Read More »
Royal Dutch Shell Creating Hydrogen Bus Fleet for Netherlands
July 5, 2006 | By Hydro Kevin Kantola | 1 Comment | Filed in: Hydrogen Buses, Hydrogen Vehicles.Royal Dutch Shell aims to rollout the world’s largest hydrogen public transportation project in Rotterdam, The Netherlands within the next 3 years. Shell, along with bus manufacturer MAN Truck and Bus corporation of Nevada, will be implementing 20 hydrogen-powered internal combustion buses with the help of the Dutch authorities. The buses will be operated by • Read More »
Hydrogen Buses in China Help Clean the Communist Country
June 21, 2006 | By Hydro Kevin Kantola | Comments Off on Hydrogen Buses in China Help Clean the Communist Country | Filed in: Hydrogen Buses, Hydrogen Vehicles.Three DaimlerChrysler hydrogen buses have hit the streets in Beijing, China as part of an eight-year, two-phase project, creating a stir in the communist community. Traditional buses in China’s larger cities are major contributors to air pollution. According to Renaud Meyer, Deputy Resident Representative of the United Nations Development Program in China, “This marks the • Read More »
Native Americans Driving Ford Hydrogen Buses
June 12, 2006 | By Hydro Kevin Kantola | Comments Off on Native Americans Driving Ford Hydrogen Buses | Filed in: Hydrogen Buses, Hydrogen Vehicles.Ford Motor Company has announced the delivery of five Ford hydrogen shuttle buses next year to the Agua Caliente Band of Cahuilla Indians and the Clean Cities Coachella Valley Region (C3VR) of California. The E-450 shuttle buses, powered by V-10 internal combustion engines and compressed hydrogen will help the tribe to move visitors efficiently and • Read More »
Pardon Me Boys, Is That The Chattanooga Hydrogen Bus?
June 8, 2006 | By Hydro Kevin Kantola | Comments Off on Pardon Me Boys, Is That The Chattanooga Hydrogen Bus? | Filed in: Hydrogen Buses, Hydrogen Vehicles.Mack Gordon and Harry Warren wrote the famous song “Chattanooga Choo Choo,” but the city is making itself famous this time around by rolling out a CARTA hydrogen shuttle bus later this year. Currently Chattanooga is using several 22-foot, all-electric shuttle buses for transportation downtown and will spend nearly $1 million to retrofit one of • Read More »