Hydrogen Powered Car Archives – The Green Optimistic green tech news, since 2008 Tue, 01 Nov 2016 13:12:59 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.0 2667534 How Toyota Changed Its Mind About Battery Powered Vehicles https://www.greenoptimistic.com/toyota-battery-powered-vehicles-20161101/ https://www.greenoptimistic.com/toyota-battery-powered-vehicles-20161101/#respond Tue, 01 Nov 2016 13:11:07 +0000 https://www.greenoptimistic.com/?p=60715 Toyota, one of the biggest carmakers in the world, has been recently badmouthing lithium battery technology and the companies using it – namely Tesla. They even built an entire media campaign around an alternative to the alternative: hydrogen fuel cells, the distribution infrastructure and storage devices. All those electric car companies were about to fall […]

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]]> https://www.greenoptimistic.com/toyota-battery-powered-vehicles-20161101/feed/ 0 60715 Hyundai’s Hydrogen Car Sets New Land-Speed Record https://www.greenoptimistic.com/hyundai-hydrogen-car-speed-record/ https://www.greenoptimistic.com/hyundai-hydrogen-car-speed-record/#respond Mon, 07 Dec 2015 20:09:42 +0000 https://www.greenoptimistic.com/?p=58111 A new record was just set for hydrogen fuel cell-powered land speed. The Hyundai Tucson Fuel Cell, which is available in the United States, set the record at the Soggy Dry Lake Bed in California. The top speed? 152.24 kilometers per hour, or approximately 94 miles per hour. It may not sound fast, but it’s the […]

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]]> https://www.greenoptimistic.com/hyundai-hydrogen-car-speed-record/feed/ 0 58111 Forces of Nature: The Car Featuring Solar-Powered On-Board Hydrogen Production https://www.greenoptimistic.com/forces-of-nature-hydrogen-solar-power-20101030/ https://www.greenoptimistic.com/forces-of-nature-hydrogen-solar-power-20101030/#respond Sat, 30 Oct 2010 16:38:03 +0000 https://www.greenoptimistic.com/?p=11549 A professor from Middle Tennessee State University has succeeded creating a hydrogen-powered car that produces its own fuel using the sun. Dubbed "Forces of Nature," the car (a 1994 Toyota Tercel) uses hydrogen extracted from an onboard water supply using solar power.

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]]> https://www.greenoptimistic.com/forces-of-nature-hydrogen-solar-power-20101030/feed/ 0 11549 Sahimo: Hydrogen Powered Car Consuming 1L/568 km! https://www.greenoptimistic.com/sahimo-hydrogen-powered-car-consuming-1l568-km-20090706/ https://www.greenoptimistic.com/sahimo-hydrogen-powered-car-consuming-1l568-km-20090706/#respond Mon, 06 Jul 2009 06:15:20 +0000 https://www.greenoptimistic.com/?p=3942 Something truly amazing comes from Turkey: some students from Sakarya University just released a prototype of what seems to be a car – but a car that consumes no more than a liter of hydrogen in a range of 568km (355 miles)! Read more on Cars and Trees –

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