Ballard — the Canadian
fuel cell company that once hoped to be the Intel inside of the hydrogen car revolution — has sold off its automotive fuel cell business to Daimler and Ford.
We invited five companies that have graced our pages: kinetic power startup M2E Power, Hymini (wind, solar chargers), more efficient lithium ion battery company Boston Power,
fuel cell company MTI, and solar charger makers Better Energy Systems (makers of Solio).
Ballard Power Systems Deploys 10 More Fuel Cell Buses in China Oct 19, 2016 Next - Gen Transportation News (Oxford, CT) Canada - based
fuel cell company Ballard Power Systems says it has commissioned and deployed 10 fuel cell - powered buses in the City of Yunfu, in the Chinese province of Guangdong, as part of the government's larger plan to address air quality in urban centers through zero - tailpipe - emission mass transit solutions.
The endorsement was announced during an event at Plug Power, a hydrogen
fuel cell company located near the Albany International Airport, but its seeds were planted last month at the Business Council's annual conference at the Sagamore, an island resort in Lake George.
A Long Island man has been indicted for allegedly scamming $ 5 million from investors who thought they were getting in on the ground floor of a new
fuel cell company.
CEERT's current board of directors includes members hailing from the NRDC, the Environmental Defense Fund and Defenders of Wildlife, along with representatives of solar, wind and
fuel cell companies, the Union of Concerned Scientists and the American Lung Association.
Not exact matches
Last year, the
company announced ambitious plans to add 20 new electric battery and
fuel cell vehicles...
On Thursday in Salt Lake City, the Nikola Motor
Company unveiled the Nikola One, the world's first hydrogen
fuel -
cell electric freight truck.
But like many other, overly optimistic hydrogen - based
fuel entrepreneurs, Dean, whose
company made a specialized membrane that was to be used in the
fuel -
cell modules, watched the ground open beneath his feet as the commercial take - up proved to be far slower than anyone anticipated.
When Vancouver civil engineer James Dean started his greentech
company, dPoint Technologies, in the early 2000s, he figured he could hitch his wagon to the promise of the hydrogen
fuel cell sector.
The
fuel cell technology
company posted revenue of $ 20.1 million in the period, which also did not meet Street forecasts.
He was also involved in the introduction and launch of the
company's
fuel cell and hydrogen generation divisions.
Last year, the
company announced ambitious plans to add 20 new electric battery and
fuel cell vehicles to its global lineup by 2023.
Both
companies produce
fuel cells that convert hydrogen into clean electricity and nearly half of Ballard's sales now come from China, as the country adds hydrogen -
fuelled electric buses to its roads.
The stations will be usable by
fuel -
cell vehicles made by other
companies.
On July 21, the
company announced an agreement with Walmart to provide GenKey hydrogen
fuel cell energy solutions to 30 more sites in North America over the next three years.
Between May 2012 and May 2013 he earned # 43,400 from AFC Energy, a
company developing alkaline
fuel cell technology, for his role chairing its board.
Cuomo and the Business Council made their announcement of the endorsement at a Plug Power, a
company based in a suburb of Albany that manufactures hydrogen
fuel cells.
The Danbury
company's potential solution for this problem is
fuel cells.
Company fuel cells have a naturally high concentration of CO2 in their
fuel stream — about 75 percent concentration of CO2, compared to 10 percent or so from a typical coal plant emissions stream.
Jim Lentz, president and CEO of Toyota Motor Corp.'s U.S. division, said his
company will also add a hydrogen
fuel cell sedan to its lineup in 2015 (Greenwire, Aug. 15).
In its test in its Danbury lab, the
company plans to mix carbon dioxide, air and nitrogen to simulate coal plant emissions and then shoot those gases into a
fuel cell stack.
South Korean automaker Hyundai Motor Co. is «very, very bullish» on
fuel cell vehicles, Hyundai Motor America CEO John Krafcik said at the 5th International Environmentally Friendly Vehicle Conference earlier this month, where the
company featured its Tucson ix FCEV.
Robert Hockaday, who founded Energy Related Devices, a
company working on
fuel cells in Los Alamos, New Mexico, told Science magazine that the material «could set a new gold standard.»
According to Nihar Patel, vice president of North American business strategy for Toyota, the
company has reduced the cost of the
fuel -
cell powertrain by 95 percent since it started testing
fuel -
cell vehicles on U.S. roads in 2002.
Israel - based
company, Emefcy, named as a play on the acronym for microbial
fuel cell (MFC), starts with the same principle as most wastewater treatment — water is aerated so bacteria in the liquid break down organic material in a closed series of containers known as a bioreactor.
The program is an opportunity for consumers in California, New York State and the District of Columbia to test about 100 of the
company's Equinox sports utility vehicles powered by hydrogen
fuel cells.
Two - way
fuel cells Meanwhile, Versa, a solid oxide
fuel cell stack supplier, is working with Boeing and «a large European
company» on an innovative reversible SOFC that cycles back and forth between providing power and electrolyzing water into hydrogen and oxygen, Stokes says.
I spent a day in northern Virginia with one of the first of 100 Chevrolet Equinox
fuel -
cell SUVs that GM is distributing and another day in southern California with a version of the Honda FCX Clarity sedan, 200 of which the
company began leasing in June.
The
company is doing enough business in such
fuel cells for backup electricity, for example, that it makes sense, according to spokesman Daniel Pepitone.
As this quick survey of the
fuel -
cell market shows, the interest and excitement around Bloom's technology is understandable, but more thanks to the underlying technology's potential than to a single, PR - savvy
company.
Several states — including California, New York, and Connecticut — are rewriting their utility rules so individuals or
companies can sell electricity (from a
fuel cell or other private power source) back into the grid.
Hussain is working with
companies that 3 - D - print artificial organs to integrate his
fuel cell into an artificial kidney, where a range of bodily fluids would provide
fuel.
In the meantime, if you want to see full - size hydrogen - powered vehicles in action, take a trip to Reykjavík or Stuttgart: In 2001 the European Union ordered
fuel cells for 30 bus engines from the Canadian
company Ballard Power Systems.
The work of investigators at the ITQ, developed together with the University of Oslo and American multinational
company CoorsTek, will make it so that vehicles with a hydrogen
fuel cell can be recharged with an energetic efficiency and simplicity similar to that of a battery electric vehicle.
The rule itself is technology - neutral, but the aggressive target pressures car
companies to make and sell all types of electrified vehicles, a category that includes hybrids, plug - in electric vehicles and
fuel cell vehicles.
The H2FIRST project is expected to eventually include
companies and organizations in the automotive, energy and industrial gas sectors,
fuel cell manufacturers, station component providers, state and regional government agencies and research institutions.
«In spite of their higher costs now, the higher efficiency and zero emissions from
fuel cells are enough to convince many
companies not to wait to implement this technology.
Dublin Institute of Technology, Electrical and Controls Engineering and Gaskatel, Kassel, Germany -
Fuel Cells University of Applied Science - Germany,
Fuel Cells and Nanocomposit Materials Trinity College - Dublin Physics - Nanotubes and Polymer Modified Carbon Nanotubes materials and Spectroscopic Characterization of Liganded Rare Earth Compounds (Chemistry) Our work has resulted inthe start up of two
companies: Photonic Cleaning Technologies, LLC, Platteville, WI, USA - Manufacturer of First Contact Polymer, Sales in 62 Countries Xolve, Inc., Platteville, WI, USA Hamilton Group Past and Present Research and Development Projects: Design, Characterization and Synthesis of Chromone Laser Dyes Surface And Optical Characterization of Polymer Strip Coatings for Optics and Astronomy Double Resonance IR / VIS Fluorescence Detection using the National Free Electron Laser Facility in Newport News, Virginia
Prior to joining NREL, she worked at three different
fuel cell start - up
companies and is now part of the leadership team responsible for building a hydrogen and
fuel cell R&D program at NREL.
I urge all of you to not purchase the Honda
fuel cell car or any other
company's
fuel cell vehicle until they do what is right and provide a
fuel cell car that pulls the hydrogen from water.
The GV80 may preview a midsize luxury crossover, but it also showcases the latest hydrogen
fuel -
cell propulsion technology, compliments of Genesis» parent
company, Hyundai.
Kia also is working on its next - generation
fuel -
cell vehicle, one that also will be built on a dedicated platform with a unique body style and which also will be shared with parent
company Hyundai Motor Group.
Toyota to Introduce 100
Fuel Cell Buses Ahead of Tokyo Olympics Oct 21, 2016 Next - Gen Transportation News (Oxford, CT) According to the company, Toyota plans to introduce over 100 fuel cell buses mainly in the Tokyo area, ahead of the Tokyo 2020 Olympic and Paralympic Ga
Fuel Cell Buses Ahead of Tokyo Olympics Oct 21, 2016 Next - Gen Transportation News (Oxford, CT) According to the company, Toyota plans to introduce over 100 fuel cell buses mainly in the Tokyo area, ahead of the Tokyo 2020 Olympic and Paralympic Ga
Cell Buses Ahead of Tokyo Olympics Oct 21, 2016 Next - Gen Transportation News (Oxford, CT) According to the
company, Toyota plans to introduce over 100
fuel cell buses mainly in the Tokyo area, ahead of the Tokyo 2020 Olympic and Paralympic Ga
fuel cell buses mainly in the Tokyo area, ahead of the Tokyo 2020 Olympic and Paralympic Ga
cell buses mainly in the Tokyo area, ahead of the Tokyo 2020 Olympic and Paralympic Games.
So every
fuel cell Audi H - tron will be refuelled with hydrogen from the
company's e-gas facility in Germany?
Major auto makers are uniting to urge governments, energy
companies and other related organizations to develop an easily accessible and affordable hydrogen infrastructure to ensure the successful introduction of
fuel -
cell vehicles in the global marketplace by 2015.
But with the 2016 Mirai's impending appearance in Toyota's showrooms as the
company's first
fuel -
cell vehicle (FCV), it appears that the future of the hydrogen -
fueled automobile is upon us at last.
Asked what GM will look like in 2020, he says the
company is «poised to be one of the, if not the, world's strongest players,» singling out what he says is GM's engineering leadership in such advanced technologies as
fuel cells and lithium - ion batteries.
When announcing «Strategy 2025» in Hanover, Germany, VW CEO Matthias Müller said the
company's EV plan is a «multi-billion euro investment program» and will accompany the automaker's work on
fuel cells.
Of course, GM is not the only
company working on hydrogen
fuel cell - powered automobiles.