Which fuel has the best likelihood of replacing the gasoline/diesel stranglehold that’s threatening humanity with a global warming catastrophe? Hydrogen? Electricity? Recently someone on Twitter made the claim shown above – that a car industry insider, with over 30 years of experience, claims that many senior people in the car…
Hyundai Hydrogen Mobility (HHM) announced today a partnership with H2 Energy, Alpiq, and Linde, to promote a “green hydrogen” infrastructure in Switzerland. To support this, the companies have built a 2 MW electrolysis plant at the Gösgen hydropower plant for producing hydrogen, and Hyundai intends to supply over 1,600 fuel…
Today at 17:30PM Oslo time, in Oslo Norway, a hydrogen refueling station exploded at the Uno-X station at Kjørbo, on the waterfront of the E18. This is a busy public area, next to a highway, and on the waterfront near Oslo. News broke of this explosion as we were ion…
The promised future of zero emission technology is not just electric vehicles, solar panels, wind turbines, and other renewable electric systems. Fuel cell technologies have long been promised to play a large role in cleaning up the system around us, even though fuel cell deployment rates are very low. Today the…
Retrieved from: http://media.gm.com/media/us/en/gm/news.detail.html/content/Pages/news/us/en/2015/oct/1001-gbc.html MILFORD, Mich. – General Motors Co. (NYSE: GM) CEO Mary Barra and her leadership team today outlined the company’s plans to capitalize on the future of personal mobility by owning the customer relationship beyond the vehicle, building upon nearly two decades of connectivity leadership. GM also said it…
Toyota this week doubled down on fuel cell electric vehicles, and further distanced itself from battery electric vehicles. The company unveiled a “customer portal” through which people can “request” a Toyota Mirai, and the same day Craig Scott, national alternative fuel vehicle manager at Toyota, was interviewed for Forbes.com saying battery…
Supposedly electric cars pose a risk to stability of the electricity grid. That somehow the electricity grid will be overwhelmed and blow up if every car is switched to electric power. Reuters is reporting today that Toyota’s Chef Engineer for their fuel-cell car, the Mirai, Yoshikazu Tanaka, said that electric cars…
Maybe it’s a fuel cell day? In any case some of the Japanese automakers have announced a partnership on fuel cell refueling infrastructure in Japan. If nothing else it demonstrates that not all fuel cell support comes from the California Air Resources Board, which is slanting the ZEV Credit playing…
Volkswagen has promised that by 2017 the company will be a (?the?) leader in electrified vehicles. Apparently they mean the word “electrified” to include Fuel Cell Vehicles, because of a deal just announced between VW and Ballard. The agreement has VW paying Ballard $50 million so VW will have…
Hydrogen fuel cell vehicles (FCEV) are slowly making their way to market, after many many years of “they’re 5-10 years away”. For informational purposes, today the Dept of Energy and the SAE teamed up on a Webinar going over the status of fuel cell vehicle fueling standards (SAE J2601 –…
The US Dept of Energy is seeking information (RFI DE-FOA-0001145) on fuel cells to be used as a range extender in a battery EV. It’s important to remember that a fuel cell vehicle is an electric vehicle, but with a pathetically small battery pack, and all the energy comes…
Tesla Motors is angry this week at Hyundai making bogus political allegations about Tesla’s Supercharger network, and at the U.S. White House for passing the buck in dealing with the battle over Tesla’s direct car-sales model. On the one hand Hyundai is making yet another astonishingly bad statement, and on…
A couple weeks ago when Hyundai announced they’d begun shipping the Hyundai Tuscon Fuel Cell Vehicle to California, a couple items in their press release clued me in that this was just a Compliance Car move (see post on examiner.com for writeup). Now, in a post on Wards Auto, Byung…
Fuel cell’s seem like this magic technology – you pour in a clean fuel (hydrogen and oxygen) and out comes clean energy (electricity) and water. Make a fuel cell big enough to power a car, or truck, and you’ve got a “clean” vehicle that can go a few hundred miles…
I just received word through the California Fuel Cell Partnership that the California Energy Commission has awarded $46 million in grants for fuel cell projects in California. According to the press release this is meant to “fund projects that develop infrastructure necessary to dispense hydrogen transportation fuel and to provide…
