
As the first European car manufacturers smart and Mercedes-Benz are entering the age of electric mobility with vehicles that are fully suitable for everyday use. The new smart fortwo electric drive has taken on a pioneering role among battery-powered electric vehicles. With a range of up to 135 kilometres the two-seater car is the ideal [...]
Hydrogenics Corporation, a leading developer and manufacturer of hydrogen generation and fuel cell products, today announced that the Company has been awarded a contract for one of its HySTAT-30 electrolyzers to be used at a fueling station in Los Angeles, California. The fueling station will serve vehicles as part of California’s “Hydrogen Highway” initiative; Hydrogenics [...]
A project to develop a new all-electric urban car, that will be affordable for many consumers when it reaches market and manufactured using an innovative and sustainable production process has been announced in the UK. It comes at a time when many companies are announcing development programs for electric or zero emission vehicles , hybrids [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
AFVTech is currently working on a vehicle conversion project with BEPC and the Energy & Environmental Research Center (EERC) at the University of North Dakota, to develop a hydrogen vehicle conversion system for a new and innovative Wind-to-Hydrogen Pilot Project. BEPC along with the EERC and several other partners is developing a hydrogen vehicle fueling [...]