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Daimler Shows Off Long-Haul Fuel Cell Truck

October 11, 2020 | By Hydro Kevin Kantola | Comments Off on Daimler Shows Off Long-Haul Fuel Cell Truck | Filed in: Hydrogen Trucks.

The German auto giant’s truck unit, Daimler, which relied on advanced technology for decades, is now all set to rollout a fuel cell that is capable of covering a distance of 600 miles per fueling. The primary reason for this transition can be attributed to the increasing competition that is concerned with reducing carbon and • Read More »

A case for chemelectricity

April 20, 2020 | By Stan Thompson | Comments Off on A case for chemelectricity | Filed in: Critics, Fuel Cells, Hydrail, Hydrogen Economy, Hydrogen Fuel, Hydrogen Fuel Production, Hydrogen Fuel Storage, Myths.

by guest blogger Stan Thompson Many of us who saw the hydrogen transition coming over two decades ago are frustrated by writers today who feel obliged to apologize for the vast amount of hydrogen that goes into fertilizer and petrochemicals.  Many of these folks probably feel they have to mention it because so many have • Read More »

Can we just acknowledge the “hydrogen transition”?

December 1, 2019 | By Stan Thompson | Comments Off on Can we just acknowledge the “hydrogen transition”? | Filed in: Advocates, Fuel Cells, History, Hydrail, Hydrogen Economy, Infrastructure, Myths.

by guest blogger, Stan Thompson Let’s limit the damage to hydrogen progress caused by “friendly fire.” Good reportage, scholarship and fair play do not require that every article point out that most hydrogen comes from extracted carbon. It’s true, it’s undeniable—but it’s totally irrelevant. The vast amounts of hydrogen produced from hydrocarbons to make petrochemicals, • Read More »

Volkswagen Group’s Scania uses Hydrogenics’ fuel cell in trucks

September 16, 2017 | By George Wand | Comments Off on Volkswagen Group’s Scania uses Hydrogenics’ fuel cell in trucks | Filed in: History.

  If you have been waiting in vain for one of the last articles in this series to be published, I hope you will forgive me for the delay. I have been working with another type of zero-pollution ‘means of transportation’, using free energy to boot. The summer went by far too fast: volunteering at • Read More »

Free Wind Energy Aids Hydrogen & Fuel Cell History, Boosts Future

June 3, 2017 | By George Wand | Comments Off on Free Wind Energy Aids Hydrogen & Fuel Cell History, Boosts Future | Filed in: History.

“Solar power, wind power, the way forward is to collaborate with nature – it’s the only way we are going to get to the other end of the 21st century.”             Bjork, Reykjavík, Iceland Wind power is universal. Countless mills in the Netherlands and elsewhere have done work before steam engines out-paced them. Wind propelled • Read More »

Mazda Conducts Serious R&D During Hydrogen & Fuel Cell History

May 20, 2017 | By George Wand | Comments Off on Mazda Conducts Serious R&D During Hydrogen & Fuel Cell History | Filed in: History.

“Research is what I’m doing when I don’t know what I’m doing.” Wernher von Braun The NASA space program initiated the commercial use of hydrogen in fuel cells to generate electricity. Different applications require various types of fuel cells; Alkaline FCs, Molten Carbonate, Phosphoric Acid, Solid Oxide, Direct Alcohol, Electrolyte Fuel Cells and other, similar • Read More »

Mercedes Research Vehicles Advance Hydrogen & Fuel Cell History

May 13, 2017 | By George Wand | Comments Off on Mercedes Research Vehicles Advance Hydrogen & Fuel Cell History | Filed in: History.

“That the automobile has practically reached the limit of its development is suggested by the fact that during the past year no improvements of a radical nature have been introduced.”                                                                                                                                        Scientific American, June 2, 1909. The only constant is change, an old proverb affirms. More than a century after the automobile • Read More »

Exciting times – Hydrogen and Fuel Cell History

November 17, 2016 | By George Wand | Comments Off on Exciting times – Hydrogen and Fuel Cell History | Filed in: History.

Hydrogen and Fuel Cell History Having just passed the second National Hydrogen & Fuel Cell Day, we will probe the history and heritage of both in a series of articles.   Exciting times. People around the world read all the newest information on Kevin Kantola’s extraordinary website. The second, electrifying transportation rEVolution since the Model • Read More »

Top 15 Hydrogen Car Milestones of 2015

January 6, 2016 | By Hydro Kevin Kantola | 1 Comment | Filed in: Hydrogen Cars.

A review of the year 2015 has unveiled many key hydrogen car milestones. In fact, there were so many that I could not possibly fit them all into one blog post. So I’ve pared the list down to my top 15. Top 15 Hydrogen Car Milestones of 2015 Toyota Mirai (pictured above) rolled out for • Read More »