The latest step in fuel cell power has taken to the skies with the first hydrogen powered helicopter making a flight lasting more than 20 minutes. The technology demonstrator developed by United Technologies Corporation flew using a Proton Exchange Membrane fuel cell developed by UTC.
The small catch is the size of the helicopter. With a rotor diameter of two meters, the remote control helicopter was originally designed to run on electric batteries. UTC modified the helicopter to run... Read Full Story
Imagine a car that can be refuelled in minutes but emits only water. Sounds like science fiction? In fact it already exists -- Hollywood star Jamie Lee Curtis has one. So does Honda president Takanobu Ito. Yet while some see them as the ultimate environmentally-friendly automobiles, the high production cost means that affordable hydrogen-powered fuel-cell cars are still more of a dream than reality. Manufacturers such as Honda, however, are making a renewed push behind the vehicles, which... Read Full Story
Imagine a car that can be refuelled in minutes but emits only water. Sounds like science fiction? In fact it already exists -- Hollywood star Jamie Lee Curtis has one. So does Honda president Takanobu Ito. Yet while some see them as the ultimate environmentally-friendly automobiles, the high production cost means that affordable hydrogen-powered fuel-cell cars are still more of a dream than reality. Manufacturers such as Honda, however, are making a renewed push behind the vehicles, which... Read Full Story
TOKYO/SEOUL (Reuters) - Toyota Motor Corp is ramping up its push on gasoline-electric hybrids, launching a new model in Japan and taking on up-and-coming rival Hyundai Motor Co in its Korean home market with its flagship Prius. Looking a step beyond hybrids, the head of Honda Motor Co said he was considering launching electric vehicles in the United States, Europe and Japan, indicating a shift in the strategy of Japan's No.2 car maker for zero-emission cars. Toyota, the world's largest... Read Full Story
Cultivating algae to produce biofuels is, like, so yesterday. How about using algae to generate clean hydrogen fuel instead?
That’s what researchers in the US hope to achieve. They say they might have identified a way to combine the photosynthesising powers of algae with a platinum catalyst to produce a steady supply of hydrogen.
Some tout hydrogen as the clean-burning fuel of the future, as its main byproducts upon reacting with oxygen are energy and water. Great in theory, but actually... Read Full Story
FILL 'ER UP--WITH HYDROGEN
No self-respecting automaker would have dared appear without a zippy-looking plug-in prototype at September's Frankfurt Auto Show. So amid all the hype about electric cars, it was a surprise to hear Daimler CEO Dieter Zetsche declare that hydrogen fuel cells, not batteries, are the ultimate way to move beyond oil. "The chances further down the road seem to me better on the fuel-cell side than on the battery-electric side," Zetsche told reporters at the show on... Read Full Story
Yesterday, a special bus to enter the China Science and Technology Museum, Tsinghua University, New Energy Automotive Engineering Center and other organizations developed China’s first hydrogen fuel cell vehicles, the official city bus to the audience. Compared with the traditional passenger car, it has a green energy-saving, low noise and so on. According to reports, the end of this bus into pilot operation. As a national Ministry of Science, “15″ major projects Hydrogen project research... Read Full Story
Yesterday, a special bus to enter the China Science and Technology Museum, Tsinghua University, New Energy Automotive Engineering Center and other organizations developed China's first hydrogen fuel cell vehicles, the official city bus to the audience. Compared with the traditional passenger car, it has a green energy-saving, low noise and so on. According to reports, the end of this bus into pilot operation. As a national Ministry of Science, "15" major projects Hydrogen project research... Read Full Story
Yesterday, a special bus to enter the China Science and Technology Museum, Tsinghua University, New Energy Automotive Engineering Center and other organizations developed China’s first hydrogen fuel cell vehicles, the official city bus to the audience. Compared with the traditional passenger car, it has a green energy-saving, low noise and so on. According to reports, the end of this bus into pilot operation. As a national Ministry of Science, “15″ major projects Hydrogen project research... Read Full Story
Yesterday, a special bus to enter the China Science and Technology Museum, Tsinghua University, New Energy Automotive Engineering Center and other organizations developed China's first hydrogen fuel cell vehicles, the official city bus to the audience. Compared with the traditional passenger car, it has a green energy-saving, low noise and so on. According to reports, the end of this bus into pilot operation. As a national Ministry of Science, "15" major projects Hydrogen project research... Read Full Story
