Category archives for: Fuel cell

Small Unmanned Aerial Vehicle Completes Record 23-Hour Flight Using Protonex Fuel Cell System

Protonex Technology Corporation, a leading provider of advanced fuel cell power systems, today announced that the Naval Research Laboratory (NRL), through a program sponsored by the Office of Naval Research (ONR), has documented a flight endurance record on their small, unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV), the Ion Tiger, utilizing a highly advanced fuel cell system from [...]

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Direct Methanol Fuel Cell technology for Unmanned Aerial Vehicle passes Navy flight test

Jadoo Power’s fuel cell system successfully powered the payload and avionics for a Mako unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) recently flight-tested by The Office of Navy Research at the U.S. Army Yuma Proving Ground in Arizona. The UAV-100 fuel cell system was designed and built by Jadoo Power using commercially available hardware, a fuel cell stack [...]

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Membrane Material Breakthrough May allow use of Dirty Hydrocarbons in Fuelcell Vehicles

A new ceramic material described in this week’s issue of the journal Science could help expand the applications for solid oxide fuel cells—devices that generate electricity directly from a wide range of liquid or gaseous fuels without the need to separate hydrogen. Though the long-term durability of the new mixed ion conductor material must still [...]

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Coke installs Hydrogen Fuel Cell Fork Trucks

The nation’s second largest Coca-Cola bottler will install 40 hydrogen-powered forklifts at its Charlotte, North Carolina production center. Plug Power Inc., a leader in providing clean, reliable energy solutions, announced today that it will provide its class-1 sit down counterbalanced GenDrive™ fuel cell solution to Coca-Cola Bottling Co. Consolidated early in 2010. “With these fuel [...]

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Test Drive the Latest Fuel Cells: The New Generation of Green Power 2009 Conference

This year’s conference, Fuel Cells: The New Generation of Green Power,( November 16-19th  in Palms Springs, Ca) will expand on the conference’s mission to advance the global energy, environmental, and economic benefits offered by fuel cell technology. Through our extensive technical program and exciting exposition featuring international partners, the FCS&E showcases the importance of fuel [...]

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Ohio State Engineering Student Team Shatters Landspeed Record for a Fuel Cell Car, 302.87mph

For the second time this week, Ohio State’s Buckeye Bullet 2 team has exceeded the international speed record it set in 2007. Late yesterday (9/25), the Bullet set an average speed of 302.877 mph, which is pending certification by the Federation Internationale de l’Automobile before it can be called an official record. The hydrogen fuel [...]

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SFC Smart Fuel Cell Wins 2009 Wall Street Journal Technology Innovation Award

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SFC Smart Fuel Cell AG, technology and market leader for mobile and off-grid power solutions based on fuel cells, announced recently that the Wall Street Journal has selected the company as a winner of one of its 2009 Technology Innovation Awards. The global competition honors companies for technological breakthroughs in energy, the environment, computing systems, [...]

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Prototype 180-watt Unmanned Ground Vehicle Fuel Cell Power Pod Demonstrated

Adaptive Materials, the fuel cell company that is leading the portable power revolution, recently demonstrated its prototype 180-watt unmanned ground vehicle (UGV) power pod on an iRobot PackBot at Ft. Hood. Over the 3-day event, the power pod demonstrated that Adaptive Materials’ propane-powered fuel cells could reliably extend the mission duration of the PackBot in [...]

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U.S.Navy Funding Fuel Cell Propulsion Systems for Unmanned Aerial Vehicles

Protonex Technology Corporation, a leading provider of advanced fuel cell power systems for portable, remote and mobile applications, today announced that it has received a $598,813 contract with the U.S. Naval Research Laboratory (NRL) for advanced development of high power fuel cell systems for small unmanned air vehicles (UAVs). This new program builds upon Protonex’ [...]

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Mazda Premacy Hydrogen Rotary Engine Hybrid’s Delivered to the City of Hiroshima

HIROSHIMA, Japan—Mazda Motor Corporation today delivered one Mazda Premacy Hydrogen RE Hybrid each to the City of Hiroshima and Hiroshima Prefecture government authorities in western Japan. The Premacy Hydrogen RE Hybrid is Mazda’s latest hydrogen rotary engine (RE) vehicle that uses hydrogen as a fuel and features a unique hybrid system. Including the first lease [...]

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