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Sebastian Piech , the grandson of Ferdinand Porsche financed the development of a British designed hydrogen-powered city car by a team of Oxford and Cranfield universities. A prototype of the car weighing 350 Kg and reaches 50 mph, can travel more then 321 km on the power of 6 KW fuel cell will be inaugurated [...]
On the site of the OMV service station at Stuttgart Airport, OMV in cooperation with Linde AG and Daimler AG is opening Baden-Württemberg’s first publicly accessible hydrogen filling station on 17 June 2009. The cooperation between the participating companies is subsidised by the State of Baden-Württemberg. The hydrogen filling station will serve fuel-cell vehicles of [...]
In the he German cities Bottrop and Gladbeck two low-floor fuel cell midibuses will be aprt of regular public transport service by Vestische Strassenbahnen GmbH, a regional transit authority. [...]
The EU Joint Undertaking for Fuel Cells and Hydrogen (JU FCH) has put its new website online with information on calls, projects and events. Also links to the EHA and HyRaMP websites are included. Under Events the next JU FCH Stakeholders General Meeting is announced: October 26-27, 2009 in Brussels.
A 1,700 mile 2009 Hydrogen Road Tour form Mexico to Canada kicked off on May 26, 2009 organized as joint collaboration between the US National Hydrogen Association, the California Air Resource Board, California Fuel Cell Partnership (CaFCP), Powertech Labs (on behalf of British Columbia) and the U.S. Fuel Cell Council. Vehicles from Daimler, General Motors, [...]
On May 15, 2009, a Swedish engineering group, Morphic Exergy Fuel Cells who operates in the areas of fuels cells and wind power, signed a contract with the Narbonne Associates of France for the dissemination of its Polaris 140 portable fuel cell, having a guarantee of minimum value of SEK 48m for Exergy. Polaris 140 [...]
As the U.S. Energy Department announced a 60% budget cut on May 7, 2009 for hydrogen-related projects to $68.2 million for the next fiscal year, the EU together with 68 industries and top EU research insitutes in hydrogen and fuel cell system development are stepping up their efforts in a 7 year, € 94o [...]
On May 5, 2009, Hydrogenics Corporation read out that two additional Hydrogenics’ fuel cell powered hybrid Minibuses is now in function. Hydrogenics Corporation, a leading global developer of clean energy solutions who is always industrious in enhancing the Hydrogen Economy by commercializing hydrogen and fuel cell products. The owner of these Hybrid Minibuses is Vestische [...]
The Linde Group, signed a long term contract with the Shell Oil Company to supply Hydrogen via pipeline in Houston, Texas. The project of using Hydrogen mainly for clean-burning transporting fuel at the Deer Park Refining Company worth more then $ 50 million, will commence in mid 2010. In his speech, Linde Group’s executive [...]
The US National Hydrogen Association, NHA, released a new report called the “Energy
Evolution: An Analysis of Alternative Vehicles and Fuels to 2100″ showing that a
scenario which initially includes a mix of alternative vehicles, and is later dominated by hydrogen fuel cell electric vehicles sales is the only way to simultaneously cut U.S. greenhouse gas pollution [...]