Archive for June, 2005
Honda FCX fuel cell car runs at 4 below zero
13 June 2005Honda engineers have dropped the temperature range at which their Honda FCX can operate to -4 degrees F and are aiming at minus 22. They’re also working on increasing the range to 370 miles from the current 270.
Cold operation is just one technical challenge with which Honda and Toyota engineers are wrestling. [...]
Around Iceland by fuel cell power
4 June 2005A Japanese team, Green Energy Adventure, plans to circumnavigate Iceland on a tricycle powered by a hydrogen fuel cell. It is interesting but the trike can also be pedal powered so it isn’t quite as much of a proof as an experiment.
GEA’s tricycle will be accompanied by a support team in a regular car and [...]
Hydrogen from Used Oil
3 June 2005How do we produce enough hydrogen to fuel the hydrogen car? What do we use as a feedstock? Researchers at the Florida Solar Energy Center are working on a method to extract hydrogen from used automotive lubricating oil. Instead of a waste product, used oil can now be transformed into hydrogen and old oil [...]
Hydrogen Car or Rolls Royce
2 June 2005If you’re in the market for a hydrogen car be prepared to lay out huge dollars, at least you would right now if they were actually available. The HydroGen3 from GM comes in around one million dollars for a car that looks like your average economy car. Of course, the reason for hydrogen cars isn’t [...]
Fuel Cells go to Washington
1 June 2005GM, DaimlerChrysler and Nissan showed up in Washington, DC last week to show off how far fuel cell cars had come. Also present were reps from GE, Delphi and Ballard Power Systems to explain their particular part of this technology puzzle.
The timing of the event, now in its fifth year, was good. Activity on energy [...]
