A few years ago the Fuel Cell was presented as the bright future. Remember all the advertising about the Hydrogen Economy and how it was going to become big? While the Hydrogen Economy and the Fuel Cell Vehicles that were envisioned have so far fizzled, while battery-electric cars are taking…
Toyota’s Chairman, Takeshi Uchiyamada, all but confirmed my suspicion from a few weeks ago – Toyota is planning to stick with Hybrid technology and wait for the next generation of battery technology, or fuel cells, before making a big push in vehicle electrification. Speaking last week at the Economic Club…
My high school years fell between the two faux-oil-crises of the 1970’s, giving my almost-adult mind a potent lesson in the fragility of our society and its dependence on fossil oil. During my research into alternatives to oil I had this idea about the hydrogen cycle, and went through the…
GM to provide their fuel cell technology, which GM and BMW will jointly work on. BMW’s latest collaboration agreement on clean vehicle technology appears to be a deal with General Motors on fuel cell systems. The deal would give BMW access to GM’s fuel cell technology, and in turn they’ll…
The history of gasoline use has shown us something. A fuel is more useful when there is an installed infrastructure allowing you to easily refuel your vehicle. Easily refueling your vehicle lets you drive further simply by stopping to refuel. The ubiquity of gasoline refueling infrastructure is so well installed…
It always seems that fuel cell cars are 5-10 years away. Honda to Put Hydrogen FCX Concept into Production in 3–4 Years So, to have the announcement be a 3-4 years time frame is very interesting. That short of a time frame indicates to me they’re getting the tooling and…
