Even though President Obama hasn’t exactly been a friend of hydrogen cars during his term as President there is now some good news and funding coming out of Washington that is a bit unexpected. The U. S. Department of Energy (DOE) has announced that they will make up to $2 million available this year for • Read More »
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Europe Continues to Open Hydrogen Fueling Stations
February 21, 2012 | By Hydro Kevin Kantola | 2 Comments | Filed in: Hydrogen Fueling Stations.While the U. S. remains largely on the sidelines, European nations continue to open hydrogen fueling stations. The WaterstofNet hydrogen fueling station officially has opened in Brussels, Belgium and Vattenfall has opened a hydrogen fueling station in Hamburg, Germany. The WaterstofNet H2 fueling station in Brussels offers the following: “This station features Hydrogenics’ fifth generation • Read More »
SunHydro Opening Hydrogen Fueling Stations at Oil Change Shops
July 7, 2011 | By Hydro Kevin Kantola | Comments Off on SunHydro Opening Hydrogen Fueling Stations at Oil Change Shops | Filed in: Hydrogen Fueling Stations.In January 2010, SunHydro and sister-company Proton Energy announced plans to put up solar-powered hydrogen fueling stations from Portland, Maine down to Miami, Florida creating an East Coast Hydrogen Highway for the U. S. Now, in May 2011, SunHydro made the announcement that they were pulling back the scope of their plans and instead creating • Read More »
Denmark and Germany Open New Hydrogen Fueling Stations
June 21, 2011 | By Hydro Kevin Kantola | Comments Off on Denmark and Germany Open New Hydrogen Fueling Stations | Filed in: Hydrogen Fueling Stations.The European Union and the world’s largest automakers have stated that they will be ready with hydrogen cars and H2 fueling stations by the year 2015. Meanwhile the Federal Government of the United States has stated they have no intention on being ready and are most willing to be followers instead of leaders in these • Read More »
Daimler and Linde Putting Up 20 Hydrogen Fueling Stations in Germany
June 2, 2011 | By Hydro Kevin Kantola | 2 Comments | Filed in: Hydrogen Fueling Stations.Automaker Daimler and industrial gas supplier Linde, both based out of Germany are putting up 20 additional hydrogen fueling stations around Germany. The stations are part of the European Union Hydrogen Highway that is now being built by multiple countries. According to the press release, “The initiative links in with the existing H2 Mobility and • Read More »
Honda Opening Hydrogen Fueling Stations in Japan and UK
April 20, 2011 | By Hydro Kevin Kantola | 2 Comments | Filed in: Hydrogen Fueling Stations.While the Obama administration is yawning at the future prospect of hydrogen cars dotting the highway landscape, the major automakers are thinking otherwise. One such automaker is Honda which is full steam ahead in putting up hydrogen fueling stations in Japan and in the United Kingdom. In Japan, Honda is building a solar hydrogen fueling • Read More »
Redirect Subsidies for Oil Companies to Build Hydrogen Fueling Stations
April 6, 2011 | By Hydro Kevin Kantola | 5 Comments | Filed in: Political Issues.Over the years, I’ve talked many times about the cost of building a nationwide hydrogen fueling infrastructure. The critics often throw out a high ball figure of $500 billion in order to replicate the current amount of gasoline dispensing stations nationwide. This is an errant figure meant to scare people about even thinking about putting • Read More »
Co-op Hydrogen Fueling Stations on Farms
January 21, 2011 | By Hydro Kevin Kantola | 6 Comments | Filed in: Hydrogen Fuel Distribution.Every once in a while someone will contact me with a unique idea where I feel compelled to publish it on this blog. Kim E. referenced an earlier post about hydrogen cooperatives and wanted to put her own spin on this idea. Kim E. “Co-op fuel stations, Co-op farm supply, farms, farms use the co-ops • Read More »
CaFCP Outlines the Different Kinds of Hydrogen Fueling Stations
August 23, 2010 | By Hydro Kevin Kantola | 1 Comment | Filed in: Hydrogen Fueling Stations.Hydrogen fueling stations have not been standardized yet though there is a push to do so in order that hydrogen cars may start to rollout commercially within the next 5 years. On the California Fuel Cell Partnership (CaFCP) website there are a couple of pages outlining what the current hydrogen fueling stations look like and • Read More »
South Korea Getting Serious with Hydrogen Fueling Stations
December 14, 2009 | By | Comments Off on South Korea Getting Serious with Hydrogen Fueling Stations | Filed in: Hydrogen Fueling Stations.In August and September 2009 I had talked about how South Korea was shaking up their country by installing additional hydrogen fueling stations. In August it was announced that two separate master planned communities in South Korea would be getting H2 fueling stations. Then in September I had talked about how South Korea’s first landfill • Read More »