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Hyundai Tucson Hybrid FCEV The Hyundai Tucson Hybrid FCEV (Fuel Cell Electric Vehicle) is a second-generation hydrogen vehicle based on its Tucson small SUV. The first generation hydrogen vehicle was the Hyundai Sante Fe FCEV, which was developed and demonstrated in the year 2000. The Hyundai Tucson Hybrid FCEV has an extended driving range (186 • Read More »

Kia Sportage FCEV The Kia Sportage FCEV SUV is Hyundai Motors’ latest generation fuel cell vehicle to arrive from the Korean automaker. The Kia Sportage FCEV offers a quiet, stable ride with good acceleration. From looking at the dashboard one would not even know they are riding in a hydrogen vehicle as the standard circular • Read More »

Hydrogen On Demand Hydrogen-on-demand systems within the automotive industry may one day rock the world. If the current hydrogen on demand systems that are being developed pan out or if future hydrogen-on-demand systems take hold, this could mean that building a huge hydrogen gas infrastructure is not necessary. A hydrogen generator may one day start • Read More »

Hydrogen Fuel Tanks Since hydrogen-powered cars are still an emerging industry, so too are hydrogen fuel tanks for cars, trucks and other vehicles. Hydrogen fuel tanks come in two main variety including those that contain compressed hydrogen gas and those that contain cryogenic hydrogen (super-cooled liquid hydrogen). Hydrogen Fuel Tanks There is a third type • Read More »

Hydrogen from Water Producing hydrogen from water may be achieved in several different ways such as electrolysis, direct solar, thermo-nuclear high temperature cracking, using catalysts, using biomaterials or using some form of chemicals to split water (H2O) into H2 (hydrogen) and O (oxygen). Hydrogen from Water Advantages As you may already know approximately 70-percent of • Read More »

Hydrogen Engines Hydrogen engines will be replacing gasoline powered engines in automobiles. The question is when. Hydrogen engines come in two varieties, electric engines powered directly by hydrogen fuel cells and those engines that are converted from traditional gasoline powered combustion engines and powered by compressed hydrogen. In the early 2,000’s it was assumed that • Read More »

Honda Puyo The Honda Puyo fuel cell concept car is being unveiled at the 2007 Tokyo Motor Show. The term “Puyo” Honda says is a Japanese onomatopoeia that describes what one feels when touching the car’s soft body and is a description for floating objects. For those who are not English literature majors and don’t • Read More »

Honda FCX The Honda FCX Hydrogen Fuel Cell Concept Car will most likely be dubbed the 3rd generation Honda FCX H2 car when it rolls off production lines in 2008. The newest Honda FCX Concept Car is more advanced than the current 2005 Honda FCX hydrogen car that is currently being used in fleet vehicles • Read More »

Home Hydrogen Fueling Stations Imagine in the future, driving your hydrogen car into your garage and gassing it up with your very own home hydrogen fueling station. Sounds pretty out there, doesn’t it? But, as far off as it sounds, there are people right now working to make this concept a reality. Take for instance • Read More »

Hindenburg Fallacy & Urban Myth The Hindenburg zeppelin explosion has long been equated with the dangers of hydrogen. Many who think of hydrogen cars also have the visual in their mind’s eye of the terrible explosion in 1937 in Lakehurst, New Jersey that killed 35 people and left many more injured. But the hydrogen inside • Read More »