For a while now, I’ve talked about the U. S., Europe, Japan and perhaps even South Korea and key areas of developed for hydrogen vehicles and fueling stations. Now, I may have to include Taiwan into this category as well. Asia Pacific Fuel Cell Technologies (APFCT) has just completed a 620 mile test drive of • Read More »
Archives: Hydrogen Vehicles
Hydrogen Fueled Lawnmower Engine Expected This Summer
May 20, 2010 | By Hydro Kevin Kantola | 4 Comments | Filed in: Hydrogen Vehicles.H2 Technologies Group out of Reno, Nevada is betting on a hydrogen fueled lawnmower engine it is developing and which is due out this summer. According to NNBW, “Small engines powered by hydrogen would produce no emissions. Today, the Environmental Protection Agency says one gas-powered lawnmower produces as much pollution as 11 cars. If their • Read More »
Are Fuel Cell Forklifts the First Commercial Hydrogen Vehicles?
May 3, 2010 | By Hydro Kevin Kantola | Comments Off on Are Fuel Cell Forklifts the First Commercial Hydrogen Vehicles? | Filed in: Hydrogen Forklifts, Hydrogen Vehicles.Are the first commercial vehicles actually hydrogen powered forklifts and lift palette trucks? And are the first commercial H2 fueling stations the hydrogen stations that power these vehicles? If you’ve followed this blog at all, you know that I’ve talked about hydrogen fuel cell powered forklifts for large warehouses for the past 4 years now. • Read More »
The Price of Converting Cars Trucks and Vans to Run on Hydrogen
February 25, 2010 | By Hydro Kevin Kantola | 1 Comment | Filed in: Hydrogen Vehicles.I’ve talked about this before but I haven’t talked about it in a while and there is an update in regard to converting cars, trucks or vans to run on hydrogen gas. Now, converting an internal combustion engine (ICE) to run on hydrogen is not quite as clean out the tailpipe as a fuel cell, • Read More »
2.8 Million Fuel Cell Vehicles by 2020 According to Pike Research
February 24, 2010 | By Hydro Kevin Kantola | Comments Off on 2.8 Million Fuel Cell Vehicles by 2020 According to Pike Research | Filed in: Hydrogen Vehicles.According to Pike Research, which is a marketing and consulting firm in the green tech field that offers in-depth analysis on a wide variety of alternative energy subjects, there will be 2.8 million fuel cell vehicles on the roads by the year 2020. The report titled “Fuel Cell Vehicles: Light Vehicles, Medium/Heavy-Duty Trucks, Transit Buses, • Read More »
Tata Hydrogen Fuel Cell Trucks and Light Buses to Be Tested
February 11, 2010 | By Hydro Kevin Kantola | 2 Comments | Filed in: Hydrogen Vehicles.Tata Motors, a company which produces the world’s cheapest new car, the Nano has decided to start testing light trucks and buses equipped with hydrogen fuel cells. In August 2009 I had talked about how Tata had announced they were working on a fuel cell version of the Nano as well The FC powered light • Read More »
HULC Robotic Exoskeleton Powered by Hydrogen Fuel Cell
January 26, 2010 | By Hydro Kevin Kantola | Comments Off on HULC Robotic Exoskeleton Powered by Hydrogen Fuel Cell | Filed in: Hydrogen Vehicles.Okay, I’ll admit this is a stretch from the usual talk about hydrogen cars and vehicles. Let’s chalk this one up to “hydrogen transportation” or at least “hydrogen assisted transportation”. In the past, I’ve talked about the Honda ASIMO robot powered by fuel cell and a bionic arm powered by hydrogen peroxide. So, now when • Read More »
University of South Carolina Hydrogen Bus Heads to Olympics
January 20, 2010 | By Hydro Kevin Kantola | Comments Off on University of South Carolina Hydrogen Bus Heads to Olympics | Filed in: Hydrogen Buses, Hydrogen Vehicles.The University of South Carolina Hydrogen Hybrid Bus is leaving the moderate temperature of the South and heading towards the much less forgiving temperatures of Vancouver, Canada in time for the 2010 Winter Olympics. Back in November 2009, I had talked about how hydrogen buses commissioned in Canada were starting to arrive for the 2010 • Read More »
Vision Industries Tests Terminal Tractor with Texas Team
January 14, 2010 | By Hydro Kevin Kantola | 3 Comments | Filed in: Hydrogen Vehicles.Okay, so the headline is a mouthful. That repetitive “T” may not roll well off one’s tongue. But, the fact is that I’ve been talking about the Vision Industries Tyrano fuel cell plug-in hybrid truck since May 2009. The original idea was to test and rollout the truck in the ports of Los Angeles and • Read More »
Hydrogen Fuel Cell Airplane in European Union Ready for Takeoff
January 13, 2010 | By Hydro Kevin Kantola | 1 Comment | Filed in: Hydrogen Aircraft, Hydrogen Vehicles.The Italians and European Union are preparing a light 2-seat airplane for takeoff powered by hydrogen fuel cell and lithium ion batteries. I’ve talked about manned hydrogen fuel cell airplanes before, with and without the aid of lithium ion batteries. The Rapid 200-FC hydrogen fuel cell manned airplane has an electric 40 kW propeller and • Read More »