GM Chevy Equinox Fuel Cell SUV GM’s Chevy Equinox Fuel Cell SUV, all 100 of them, are supposed to rollout in the U. S. the first quarter of 2008. The deployment plan is being called “Project Driveway” and the idea behind GM’s rollout is to test the marketability, including customer response to hydrogen cars in • Read More »
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Daihatsu Tanto FCHV
August 7, 2015 | By Hydro Kevin Kantola | No Comments | Filed in: .Daihatsu Tanto FCHV The Daihatsu Tanto FCHV (fuel cell hybrid vehicle) is also a mini MPV (multi purpose vehicle) and sits on the frame of the Daihatsu Tanto mini vehicle. Developmentally the Tanto FCHV is based on the Daihatsu Move FCV-K2. Similar in appearance to the Honda Element or the Scion xB, the Daihatsu Tanto • Read More »
Chevy Equinox
August 7, 2015 | By Hydro Kevin Kantola | 4 Comments | Filed in: .GM Chevy Equinox Fuel Cell SUV GM’s Chevy Equinox Fuel Cell SUV, all 100 of them, are supposed to rollout in the U. S. the first quarter of 2008. The deployment plan is being called “Project Driveway” and the idea behind GM’s rollout is to test the marketability, including customer response to hydrogen cars in • Read More »
Radio Waves and Cheap Catalysts – Hopeful Hydrogen Production Products
June 25, 2015 | By Hydro Kevin Kantola | Comments Off on Radio Waves and Cheap Catalysts – Hopeful Hydrogen Production Products | Filed in: Hydrogen Fuel Production.There are two big stories this week in regard to new and promising research into cheap hydrogen production and I want to talk about both of them. In Israel, a startup company called H2Energy Now has developed a method using radio waves to zap water and extract the hydrogen gas. According to the Times of • Read More »
Stanford + AAA Battery + Water = Hydrogen
August 26, 2014 | By Hydro Kevin Kantola | 1 Comment | Filed in: Hydrogen Fuel Production.Researchers at Stanford University have discovered a way to produce hydrogen using an AAA battery to split water. The device uses electrodes composed of nickel and iron, which are both abundant and cheap. According to Stanford, “Now scientists at Stanford University have developed a low-cost, emissions-free device that uses an ordinary AAA battery to produce • Read More »
Hydroxide Exchange Membranes May Be the Future of Fuel Cells
June 3, 2014 | By Hydro Kevin Kantola | Comments Off on Hydroxide Exchange Membranes May Be the Future of Fuel Cells | Filed in: Fuel Cells.Researchers at the University of Delaware have discovered that nano-scale nickel spheres may be the key to cheap and abundant hydrogen via electrolysis of water. Platinum, ruthenium and iridium rare metals often found in fuel cells or electrolyzers and the goal is the replace these elements with something that is cheaper and more abundant. According • Read More »
Bimetallic Nanocages Boost Performance for Fuel Cells and H2 Production
April 30, 2014 | By Hydro Kevin Kantola | Comments Off on Bimetallic Nanocages Boost Performance for Fuel Cells and H2 Production | Filed in: Fuel Cells, Hydrogen Fuel Production.Researchers at the Argonne National Laboratory (ANL) and the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (LBNL) have developed a bimetallic nanocage that can reduce the amount of platinum used in fuel cells and electrolyzers. These 3D nanoframes made of platinum and nickel, far exceed the performance of traditional platinum-only catalysts. According to SAE International, “The order-of-magnitude jump • Read More »
Platinum on the Chopping Block in Fuel Cells
August 13, 2013 | By Hydro Kevin Kantola | Comments Off on Platinum on the Chopping Block in Fuel Cells | Filed in: Fuel Cells.In two separate stories today, platinum is either being drastically reduced or eliminated altogether in hydrogen fuel cells. In the first case, the Paul Scherrer Institute (PSI) has reduced the amount of platinum used in a fuel cell by five times in a recent experiment. According to PSI, “An international team of researchers involving the • Read More »
Unique Catalysts Create Hydrogen from Water or Ethanol
June 20, 2013 | By Hydro Kevin Kantola | Comments Off on Unique Catalysts Create Hydrogen from Water or Ethanol | Filed in: Hydrogen Fuel Production.There are separate stories surfacing now about two different methods to create hydrogen: one using water and the other using ethanol as a feedstock. Scientists at Penn State University have discovered that nickel and phosphorus nanoparticles (pictured above) will catalyze water into hydrogen as efficiently as any non-platinum materials now in existence. According to Penn • Read More »
Is Iron the New Platinum?
April 3, 2013 | By Hydro Kevin Kantola | 1 Comment | Filed in: Fuel Cells, Hydrogen Fuel Production.Is iron the new platinum? Two new research studies seem to think so. Now, I’ve talked about iron many times over the years as one of the platinum-free elements in fuel cells and during electrolysis to produce hydrogen. Two different research teams from the Canada and the U. S. have conducted independent research on low • Read More »