Hydrogen Cars, Vehicles and Infrastructure
Includes hydrogen infrastructure issues not covered in production, storage and distribution areas.
by guest blogger Stan Thompson Long before he was honored with with his own automobile brand, Serbian inventor-engineer Niccola Tesla had an annual tradition of predicting on his birthday the future of technology. Lesser lights, including myself, use the birthday of the New Year to make predictions. Here are ten for 2015: 2015-1 The announcement last year […]
Continue Readingby guest blogger Stan Thompson By fiddling with his oil faucets and natural gas valves, Vladimir Putin may be having the same unintended acceleration effect on Europe’s diesel-to-hydrail transition that John L. Lewis had on the coal-to-diesel transition in the USA during the last century. Recently I’ve heard two ambassadors from European countries explaining to American audiences what […]
Continue Readingby guest blogger Stan Thompson Since you’re reading this, you already know how indebted the hydrogen community is to Kevin—the originator of this blog—for his role in keeping us up to date with the biggest news about the littlest atom. Today, though, I’m more grateful than ever; Kevin just tipped me off about an article in […]
Continue Readingby guest blogger Stan Thompson This update follows much farther behind the wonderfully successful 9th International Hydrail Conference in Schleswig-Holstein, Germany (June 2014) than I had intended. The reason is one I can’t regret: the cast of international players on the hydrail stage has grown so large, and there are so many intertwining plots, that I can hardly keep up […]
Continue ReadingEven though California is often thought of as Ground Zero for hydrogen car technology and refueling infrastructure, Japan also has been quite pro-active in this field as well. And hence the Japanese have established a Hydrogen / Fuel Cell Strategy Roadmap in order to address the technical challenges going forward in regard to growing FCVs […]
Continue Readingby guest blogger Stan Thompson Neumünster, in the Northern German State of Schleswig-Holstein, will host the Ninth International Hydrail Conference (“9IHC”) on 16-18 June this year (2014). This year’s registration details, presenters and agenda information appear on the Appalachian State University hydrail web site, http://www.hydrail.org. German support for the Hydrail Conference has proved so strong that, for the […]
Continue ReadingLast week, Hawaiian lawmakers voted to slow the growth of hydrogen vehicles and infrastructure in the state. In the past I’ve talked many times about how progressive Hawaii has been in regard to hydrogen vehicles. According to Stars and Stripes, “State lawmakers last week killed language in a bill that would have taken a portion […]
Continue ReadingTwo of the U. S. Energy Department’s research facilities, the National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL) and Sandia National Laboratories, will be spearheading the H2First project aimed at accelerating the rollout of a nationwide hydrogen fueling infrastructure. Hyundai will be rolling out a limited amount of hydrogen cars any time now and Toyota has stated that […]
Continue ReadingDOE’s National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL) is helping to build out the burgeoning hydrogen car infrastructure. Yesterday I talked about the DOE (Department of Energy) and how their PNNL division was helping with similar efforts. But the NREL is taking a different angle at the issues. According to the NREL, “NREL hydrogen researchers are working […]
Continue ReadingH2USA is a public-private partnership pulled together to build and promote the hydrogen fueling infrastructure needed to roll out fuel cell vehicles over the next few years. And now the PNNL (Pacific Northwest National Laboratory) has joined the DOE (Department of Energy) consortium to help in this effort. The last time I had talked about […]
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