About a week ago I talked about Japan getting serious about hydrogen cars. Now they have just upped that commitment. First, 10 Japanese energy companies including automakers and gas suppliers have announced that they will put up 100 hydrogen fueling stations in Japan by 2015. Because of economies of scale, the price of building these • Read More »
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Japan Getting Serious About Hydrogen Cars
January 3, 2011 | By Hydro Kevin Kantola | 2 Comments | Filed in: Hydrogen Highways.I’ve talked about the building of the Japanese Hydrogen Highway before and how this country that imports most of its raw materials could benefit by switching to using hydrogen cars. Now, it looks like Japan is getting serious about rolling out H2 vehicles by 2015. Japan will be using some of its lower grade hydrogen • Read More »
Low Cost Hydrogen from Water System Developed in Japan
October 18, 2010 | By Hydro Kevin Kantola | 1 Comment | Filed in: Hydrogen Fuel Production.I’ve talked about high temperature cracking of water to create hydrogen before. I’ve also talked about adding a catalyst such as aluminum or magnesium to aid the cracking of water into hydrogen. Now a Japanese company, FUKAI Environmental Research Institute has found a way to do both and do so at low cost. According to • Read More »
Japanese Solar Hydrogen Electrolysis Reduces Voltage 50-Percent
May 28, 2010 | By Hydro Kevin Kantola | 1 Comment | Filed in: Hydrogen Fuel Production.One of the problems of brute force electrolysis has always been the amount of energy it takes to split water into hydrogen and oxygen. The use of different kinds of metal or chemical catalysts, sound wave frequencies and other methods to loosen the bonds between hydrogen and oxygen atoms have met with encouraging success. And, • Read More »
Japan Expects to Expand 99-times the Use of Hydrogen Fuel Cells by 2025
March 5, 2010 | By Hydro Kevin Kantola | Comments Off on Japan Expects to Expand 99-times the Use of Hydrogen Fuel Cells by 2025 | Filed in: Hydrogen Economy.A Japanese research marketing firm, the Fuji-Keizai Group, predicts a 99-fold increase in the use of hydrogen fuel cells in Japan between now and 2025, an increase of $17.7 billion USD. Housing fuel cell systems and hydrogen cars will account for most of the increases. From now, to 2025, the trend is supposed to reverse • Read More »
Three Japanese Hydrogen Cars Make 1,100 Kilometer Fun Run
November 11, 2009 | By | 6 Comments | Filed in: Hydrogen Cars.This is a story that has slipped under the radar of most mainstream news outlets and there are very few details about this event. But, Toyota, Nissan and Honda have decided that today they will take their fuel cell cars on a 1,100 kilometer (683 miles) fun run. The cars will leave Toyko and travel • Read More »
Japan Conflicted About Rollout of Hydrogen Highway and Cars
October 15, 2009 | By Hydro Kevin Kantola | Comments Off on Japan Conflicted About Rollout of Hydrogen Highway and Cars | Filed in: Hydrogen Highways, Political Issues.Japan’s automakers and gas companies have decided to go gung-ho in creating a hydrogen car and highway system in the small country by 2015. What is getting in the way, now, however is the Japanese government. Back in August 2009 I had talked about how a consortium of Japanese hydrogen gas companies had decided to • Read More »
Japan Intends to Expand Hydrogen Highway System for Whole Country
August 6, 2009 | By Hydro Kevin Kantola | 1 Comment | Filed in: Hydrogen Fuel Distribution, Hydrogen Highways.I’ve already talked about the Japanese hydrogen highway system that has been growing over the past few years. Now, the plan is for Japan to extend this hydrogen highway system for the entire country by 2015. This is good news for Japanese car manufacturers such as Toyota, Nissan and Mazda that all have their own • Read More »
Honda FCX Leases in Japan and Charity for Children
November 26, 2008 | By Hydro Kevin Kantola | Comments Off on Honda FCX Leases in Japan and Charity for Children | Filed in: Hydrogen Cars.When I was at the Los Angeles Auto Show last week I asked the Honda reps when the FCX Clarity was once again going to be heavily promoted since there has been somewhat of a publicity vacuum since they announced back in July that actress Jamie Lee Curtis was leasing one. The answer was “soon, very • Read More »
Toyota FCHV-adv to Lease Soon in Japan
September 2, 2008 | By Hydro Kevin Kantola | Comments Off on Toyota FCHV-adv to Lease Soon in Japan | Filed in: Hydrogen Cars.On Friday, Toyota announced that it will begin leasing its FCHV-adv to Japan’s Ministry of the Environment plus a few other government entities. In early June, Toyota had announced that it had acquired certification from Japan’s Ministry of Land, Infrastructure and Transport to put this new, advanced vehicle on the road. Toyota has been working • Read More »