Is Nissan Throwing Their Hydrogen Cars Under the Bus?
According to All Electric Cars (AEC), an EV advocacy website, Nissan has decided to swear off hydrogen cars in favor of all electric vehicles. According to this EV advocacy group, the Renault-Nissan...
View ArticleNG Fuel Cell Vehicles Instead of Hydrogen Fuel Cell Vehicles
Over the Weekend I received a lengthy email (which I will post of the next 2 days) from Tom B. of the Clearlight Foundation advocating for Natural Gas (NG) fuel cell vehicles that talks about using...
View ArticleNatural Gas Fuel Cells to Compete with Hydrogen FCVs – Part 2
This is the second part of an email I received over the weekend from Tom B. of the Clearlight Foundation. The email was a bit long for this blog so I broke it over two parts. Here is what Tom B....
View ArticleNY Times Says Plug-In Cars Lack Infrastructure
This is almost poetic in a sense. I can’t tell you how many times I’ve heard people say (including myself) that hydrogen cars are almost here but a lack of refueling infrastructure is holding them...
View ArticleCompeting Technologies within Hydrogen Car Community
Not only is the hydrogen car industry being pressured by outside competition such as electric cars and those that run on biofuels, but there is competition within the hydrogen car industry itself. Many...
View ArticleUnion County NJ Student Model Hydrogen Fuel Cell Car Contest
In the past, I’ve talked about various student contests involving designing model hydrogen fuel cell cars. Since I believe that the students of today will be making the hydrogen car breakthroughs of...
View ArticleOil Companies Scaling Back Hydrogen Production for Cars
There is an article that caught my eye at sfbg.com that talks about the hydrogen powered AC Transit buses running in Northern California plus the new fuel cell buses on the way. But it’s not the buses...
View Article2010 Formula Zero and Le Mans Hydrogen Racecars a Go-Go
The wonderful thing about hydrogen cars is that they can be like any other car. They can be street legal vehicles tooling down the city streets or taking a long road trip on the highways or they can be...
View ArticleKiller App for Hydrogen Cars Needed
Yesterday I was reading news that at the Washington DC Consumer Electronics Show two products by Ford were getting a lot of buzz. The first was the 2012 Ford Focus Electric car which is supposed to...
View ArticleElon Musk Calls Hydrogen Cars a Bunch of BS
High flying tech magnate Elon Musk, who is the CEO of SpaceX and battery electric carmaker Tesla Motors, recently called hydrogen cars a bunch of BS. He has a reason for doing this. According to...
View ArticleWill Methanol Fuel Cell Vehicle Kill the Hydrogen Car?
Will the methanol fuel cell vehicle (pictured above) kill the hydrogen fuel cell vehicle? In September 2015, the first methanol (wood alcohol) fueling station was opened in Europe. The station is...
View ArticleWill the Toyota Prius Prime Kill the Hydrogen Car?
In December 2007, I posited the question of whether or not PHEVs (Plug-in Hybrid Electric Vehicles) will kill both EV’s and hydrogen cars. My reasoning was that if gasoline-electric PHEVs reach the...
View ArticleWill Ethanol + Fuel Cells Take Over the Clean Car Market?
In the past few weeks, two major stories broken about the use of ethanol to power fuel cells. Does this mean that ethanol plus FCEVs will take over the market? On June 14, 2016, Nissan announced that...
View ArticleWill the Increasing BEV Range Kill the Hydrogen Car?
There have been a couple of big announcements lately regarding the increased range of BEV (battery electric vehicles). The new Tesla Model S is supposed to have a range of 315 miles and the new Chevy...
View ArticleBusiness Gets Down to Hydrail
by guest blogger, Stan Thompson When Dr. Holger Busche conceived wind turbine powered commuter trains for Schleswig-Holstein, Germany, back in 1998, he probably had a business model in mind, though he...
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