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Hydrogen Fuel Cell Bicycle, a World-First by Linde AG

Benji Jerew — Mon, 19 Oct 2015 16:58:06 +0000

Linde, Germany’s largest supplier of industrial gas, including hydrogen, already has a number of hydrogen fuel stations, at least one hundred at last count, has developed the world’s first hydrogen fuel cell bicycle. Bicycles are already emissions-free, provide great exercise, and can be parked anywhere, even in your office. On the other hand, if you […]

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Toyota Mirai Coming to Japan and California

Benji Jerew — Sun, 08 Feb 2015 13:04:18 +0000

The 2016 Toyota Mirai, world’s first production hydrogen fuel cell vehicle, will arrive in California and Japan dealers by the second half of 2015, along with a special perk, free hydrogen fuel for the duration of the lease! While none of the technologies in the Mirai are particularly new, Toyota put them together in a way […]

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Toyota Mirai Hydrogen Fuel Cell Car – Just a “Better Battery”, Says Exec

Benji Jerew — Wed, 28 Jan 2015 21:03:45 +0000

Personally, I think both battery electric cars and hydrogen fuel cell cars, such as the Toyota Mirai, have a place in the future of transportation, but maybe the solution isn’t that clearly cut. Ahh, the age-old debate between battery electric cars and hydrogen fuel cell cars… Actually, can we call it an “age-old debate” if it’s […]

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Advancing Hydrogen Fuel Cell Technology – Toyota Opens Patent Vault

Benji Jerew — Tue, 06 Jan 2015 20:02:41 +0000

Over the last couple of decades, a lot of research and development money has been poured into hydrogen fuel cell technology, one form of clean transportation technology that Toyota has hedged its bets on, as opposed to battery electric vehicles. In fact, Toyota has gone so far as to say that hydrogen fuel cell vehicles […]

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First Commercial-Scale Solar Hydrogen Fuel Generator Opens in UK

Benji Jerew — Tue, 11 Nov 2014 15:03:06 +0000

Hydrogen fuel can indeed be produced via electrolysis, which requires connection to some kind of power source, be it a coal-fired power plant or an array of solar panels, and this raises a question… “Renewable energy, such as wind power and solar power, are typically intermittent, so how can they be used as a reliable […]

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New Renewable Hydrogen Fuel Generation Catalyst Developed at Stanford

Benji Jerew — Tue, 26 Aug 2014 17:23:55 +0000

We like the idea of hydrogen fuel cell vehicles which, in themselves, generate water vapor as their only emission. Hydrogen fuel, however, could prove to be a sticking point. Considering that second point, hydrogen fuel cell vehicle opponents have pointed to hydrogen fuel generation’s fossil-fuel roots as a clear indication that they aren’t viable emissions-free […]

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Elon Musk’s “Hydrogen is BS” – Fuel Cell Vehicle Myth Ten

Benji Jerew — Tue, 05 Aug 2014 18:39:17 +0000

Elon Musk has a very bad opinion on hydrogen use in cars. He stated it in one of our interviews with him and with other oca Up until now, we’ve been covering a number of myths regarding hydrogen fuel cell vehicles and their viability as safe and environmentally-responsible transportation, and I suppose the last is […]

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Fuel Cell Vehicle Myth Seven – Hydrogen Fuel Stations are Too Expensive!

Benji Jerew — Thu, 31 Jul 2014 18:30:37 +0000

Hydrogen fuel cell vehicles, just like hybrid electric vehicles and conventional vehicles, would require refueling stations, but aren’t they too expensive to build? Like all vehicles on the road today, hydrogen fuel cell vehicles store their fuel onboard, but needs to get that fuel from somewhere else. Some have asked, much like the chicken-and-the-egg conundrum, […]

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Fuel Cell Vehicle Myth Six – Hydrogen Fuel Storage and Delivery is Dangerous

Benji Jerew — Tue, 29 Jul 2014 15:19:27 +0000

Hydrogen fuel cell vehicles may seem like a new technology, but is hydrogen fuel production, storage, delivery, and utilization unproven technology? Actually, this has been around for decades, the proton exchange membrane fuel cell dating back as far as the 1950s, invented by General Electric. The first commercially available fuel cells were available in the […]

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Fuel Cell Vehicle Myth Five – Fuel Cell Vehicles Use Liquid Hydrogen

Benji Jerew — Mon, 28 Jul 2014 17:46:43 +0000

We’ve been filling up conventional vehicles with liquid fuel for over a century, so it only makes sense that hydrogen fuel cell vehicles use liquid hydrogen fuel, right? The upcoming Toyota FCV, for example, uses composite H2 storage tanks at pressures of up to 875 atm (12,859 psi), giving the car a theoretical range of […]

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Fuel Cell Vehicle Myth Four – Hydrogen Fuel Storage is Dangerous

Benji Jerew — Fri, 25 Jul 2014 18:39:10 +0000

I’m really getting on a roll here, talking about various myths surrounding fuel cell vehicles, and I’m looking forward to hearing what our faithful readers of The Green Optimistic have to say about the technology. Mention hydrogen, and one image that may come to mind is the infamous self-destruction of the airship Hindenburg, which was […]

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Fuel Cell Vehicle Myth Three – Hydrogen Fuel is Expensive

Benji Jerew — Fri, 25 Jul 2014 01:20:18 +0000

If cost is a measure of how willing people are to get into alternative fuel vehicles, such as fuel cell vehicles, won’t expensive hydrogen fuel effectively cancel out any environmental benefits? We’ve already discussed how much it costs to power a fuel cell vehicle, and it’s actually cheaper than battery electric vehicles. Battery electric vehicles […]

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Fuel Cell Vehicle Myth One – Fuel Cell Vehicles “Burn” Hydrogen

Benji Jerew — Tue, 22 Jul 2014 15:18:09 +0000

Starting a discussion on the multiple benefits of fuel cell vehicles, which makes us wonder, are there any myths that need to be busted? Olathe Toyota Parts Center turned me on to a special page they put up, “Ten Fuel Cell Vehicle Myths,” based on a number of fuel cell vehicle myths that are going […]

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Hydrogen Fuel Cell Vehicles May Be the Future

Benji Jerew — Tue, 08 Jul 2014 18:33:57 +0000

While battery electric vehicles and hydrogen fuel cell vehicles may co-exist for some time, will one or the other dominate long-term? With the early successes of electric vehicles (EV) like as the Tesla Model S and Nissan Leaf, it may seem that battery electric vehicles (BEV) have gotten a head start on hydrogen fuel cell […]

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Toyota FCV Will Start at Just $69,000

Benji Jerew — Mon, 30 Jun 2014 19:38:16 +0000

Toyota’s approach to the future of transportation, the Toyota FCV, is definitely electric, but not battery-powered. Instead, Toyota believes hydrogen fuel cell vehicles will be the future of transportation. In a recent presentation of the Toyota FCV, Toyota says of the technology: “ You can watch the whole presentation here (over an hour), starting with […]

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New Regulation in Japan Advancing Hydrogen Fuel Cell Vehicles

Benji Jerew — Thu, 05 Jun 2014 16:09:19 +0000

While hydrogen fuel cell vehicles and infrastructure seem to be an oddity outside Japan, the Japan Ministry of Economy is working hard to improve its chances. Hydrogen fuel cell vehicles (FCV), like electric vehicles (EV), produce no emissions on their own. Pressurized hydrogen gas, stored in an on-board tank, is fed into the hydrogen fuel […]

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Toyota Invests $7 Million in Hydrogen Fuel Infrastructure

Benji Jerew — Wed, 21 May 2014 16:29:11 +0000

Toyota’s future isn’t battery electric, but hydrogen fuel cell. The infrastructure has to be there first, however, which makes this announcement not unexpected. Toyota isn’t anti-battery, as some might assert, but isn’t mincing words when it comes to its vision of the future of transportation. The hydrogen fuel cell, according to Toyota, is cheaper on […]

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Mantra Hydrogen Fuel Cell Vehicle Prototype is Cheaper

Benji Jerew — Mon, 24 Mar 2014 14:49:19 +0000

The conventional hydrogen fuel cell is clean, but expensive, since it uses rare metals to maintain the longevity of the cell. Current hydrogen fuel cell technology uses a rare-metal impregnated PEM (proton exchange membrane) that keeps the two halves of the system apart and generates electrical current. Hydrogen protons pass through the PEM, but the […]

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Daimler CEO Says Hydrogen Fuel Cell Vehicles are Ten Years Off

Benji Jerew — Wed, 22 Jan 2014 20:25:17 +0000

A few automakers have promised hydrogen fuel cell vehicles in the next few years, but Daimler CEO Dieter Zetsche says it’s going to be at least a decade. This is pretty interesting for the CEO of a company who has entered into a partnership with Ford Motor Company and Nissan Motor Company, a three-way collaboration […]

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Toyota FCV Hydrogen Fuel Cell Vehicle is “Going to Change the World”

Benji Jerew — Tue, 07 Jan 2014 15:01:56 +0000

This year’s Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas has been the host to some pretty impressive technological displays, not the least of which is the United States debut of the Toyota FCV, a hydrogen fuel cell vehicle. Hydrogen fuel cell vehicles have been touted as the cleanest thing since battery electric vehicles, but the size […]

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Could Hydrogen Fuel Cell Vehicles Really Be the Future?

Benji Jerew — Tue, 26 Nov 2013 15:19:39 +0000

Given that many automakers are putting a lot of R&D [Research and Development] money into hydrogen fuel cell vehicles, can we be certain that they ARE coming, but will they be the future? Right now, the only hydrogen fuel cell vehicle in production is made by Honda Motor Company, and still in very small numbers. […]

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Elon Musk Calls “Bull5h17!” on Hydrogen Fuel Cell Vehicles, Munich, Germany [VIDEO]

Benji Jerew — Wed, 23 Oct 2013 16:33:02 +0000

Word Association: Hydrogen Fuel Cell → Platinum, Compressed, Electric, Expensive, Electrolysis. This were the first words that came to my mind when I wrote “Hydrogen Fuel Cell,” but the first word that comes to the mind of Elon Musk, South-African billionaire entrepreneur and CEO of electric vehicle startup Tesla Motors, is “Bull5h17!” Granted, this is […]

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Is There Really a “Greener” Hydrogen, BASF?

Benji Jerew — Tue, 23 Jul 2013 14:47:47 +0000

Mention hydrogen fuel cell [HFC] vehicles and two opposites immediately spring to my mind. First, HFC vehicles are, in themselves, emissions-free. On the other hand, hydrogen generation is far from emissions-free. If generating hydrogen also generates carbon dioxide, then what’s the point of driving an HFC vehicle, especially when they cost upwards of $50,000? At […]

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Why the Sudden Interest in Hydrogen Fuel Cell Vehicles?

Benji Jerew — Thu, 18 Jul 2013 13:25:53 +0000

Well, hydrogen fuel cells have been around for a long time, and vehicles powered by them have been in the works for decades. Is “Now” the right time? Even in his 2003 State of the Union Presidential Address, US President George Bush called for $1.2 billion in funding to develop hydrogen fuel cell technology. The […]

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Audi A7 Hydrogen Fuel Cell Prototype, Testing in Progress

Benji Jerew — Mon, 03 Jun 2013 18:21:35 +0000

Automotive alternative fuels like hydrogen fuel cell vehicles could actually be easier to implement than electric vehicles, but still suffer from the same infrastructure problems. Actually, electric vehicle infrastructure is becoming more commonplace, but it’s still a game of Catch-22. Comparing electric vehicles and hydrogen fuel cell vehicles boils down to powertrain expenses [hydrogen is […]

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Hyundai Blue2 – Hydrogen Fuel Cell Concept Vehicle Unveiled in Seoul

Mike Sandru — Fri, 01 Apr 2011 18:22:27 +0000

Going green is a direction every major car maker has to approach at some point. It's just that for Hyundai it's more of a "going blue" trend than it is green: its new hydrogen fuel concept vehicle presented on this week's Seoul auto show is called ÃƒÂ¢€Ã…â€œBlue2ÃƒÂ¢€ and it reads "Blue Squared."

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