Fuel Cell
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Gas stations are ubiquitous across the world, many with diesel pumps as well, to fuel the more than 1 billion vehicles now roaming the surface of our planet. As regulators get increasingly serious about reducing carbon emissions from transportation, we'll see competing sites for refueling or recharging zero-emission vehicles emerge--the first serious competition to hydrocarbon fuels in a century. So it's worth looking at "throughput," or the number of vehicles that can be refueled or recharged at these different locations. DON'T MISS: Hydrogen Fuel Now Available For Sale In California A...
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Hydrogen Fueling Station Reliability: 'An Issue For Some Time' To Come
A California station has been selling hydrogen for eight months.
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2016 Toyota Mirai Hydrogen Fuel-Cell Car Runs On...Leftover Lemonade? Huh?
Toyota continues to claim that hydrogen for its Mirai fuel-cell car can come from just about anywhere.
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In Survey, 77 Percent Of Canadian Buyers Support Hydrogen Vehicles
Hyundai surveys Canadian buyers, and says they're enthusiastic about hydrogen.
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Hyundai, Kia Do It All: Electrics, Hybrids, Prius Fighters, Hydrogen, Even Diesel
When it comes to advanced automotive technology, most global carmakers are placing their bets with care. Toyota is all-in for hydrogen fuel cells, while Nissan is betting on battery-electric vehicles for its future. GM too is on the plug-in side of the ledger, while other makers hang back more...
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CA Renewable Hydrogen Rule: Forcing The Carbon Numbers To Work
California's plan to reduce carbon emissions from transportation anticipates a mix of battery-electric and hydrogen fuel-cell vehicles. Recharging batteries from the electric grid is relatively simple, but producing hydrogen fuel requires a good deal of energy to split pure hydrogen out of other...
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San Francisco's hydrogen ferry will be fueled by the world's largest hydrogen station.
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Toyota Tackles Hydrogen Fueling Challenges As Mirai Launch Approaches: UPDATED
As this autumn's launch of the 2016 Toyota Mirai fuel-cell car approaches, its maker is taking steps to ensure that the small number of initial buyers and lessees will be able to fuel up their hydrogen-powered sedans with ease. Some of the 70 or so Hyundai Tucson Fuel Cell SUV drivers in Southern...
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Hydrogen Fuel-Cell Ferry For Bay Area, Electric Ferry In Norway
An experimental hydrogen fuel-cell ferry is being designed for use in San Francisco.
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Why Do Fuel-Cell Vehicles Make Electric-Car Advocates So Crazy?
Last Thursday, Green Car Reports published a story noting that the several dozen drivers of Hyundai Tucson Fuel Cell vehicles had expressed deep frustration with the unreliability of Southern California's current hydrogen fueling stations. That story hit a chord; as of this morning, it's...
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Fiat Chrysler CTO: Fuel Cells Are The Future, Batteries Are Not
The head of Maserati says that brand will not sell a battery-electric car.
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CA Fuel-Cell Car Drivers Say Hydrogen Fuel Unavailable, Stations Don't Work (UPDATED)
While they enjoy driving their cars, early lessees of hydrogen fuel-cell vehicles in Southern California are complaining that they can't reliably fuel them at the handful of stations now supposedly operating in their region. The stations are frequently inoperative, they say, closed for days or...
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A Toyota executive says the company's experience with hybrid powertrains legitimizes skepticism about batteries.
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BMW's Ominous Black i8 Fuel-Cell Prototype: What It Sounds Like (Video)
Very, very few people on the planet have ever seen a car powered by hydrogen fuel cells, much less ridden in or driven one. But if you've wondered what they sound like in operation, now's your chance. At a recent technology presentation, BMW showed off two different prototype vehicles powered by...
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Signup For 2016 Toyota Mirai Fuel-Cell Sedan Starts July 20 (Californians Only)
Toyota will begin accepting applications for the 2016 Mirai July 20.
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BMW Hydrogen Fuel-Cell Prototypes Now Testing, Production "Sometime After 2020"
As the cost of advanced technologies to reduce the carbon footprint of vehicle travel rises, car companies have increasingly partnered to share those technologies and their costs. Now BMW has shown the first hydrogen fuel-cell vehicle prototypes from its partnership of several years with Toyota...
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Will Future Tesla Model S Top Toyota Mirai's 312-Mile Range?
Hydrogen fuel-cell cars today have many similarities to electric cars. Both employ advanced zero-emission powertrains that power the wheels with electric motors, both cost more to buy than gasoline cars of the same size, and both represent only a tiny fraction of today's car market. The main...
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Toyota, Honda, Nissan Set Details Of Hydrogen Network In Japan
Honda, Nissan, and Toyota will fund hydrogen fueling stations in Japan.
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What's so magical about 1.5 volts, you may ask? It turns out that it's the practical voltage required to produce hydrogen gas from water using artificial photosynthesis, powered only by solar energy, at commercial scale. At least, that's the claim of a startup company called Hypersolar, which two days ago said it had reached a new milestone of 1.4 Volts. DON'T MISS: 2016 Toyota Mirai Fuel-Cell Sedan: 312 Miles Of Range, 67 MPGe That's higher than the 1.25 Volts that represents the theoretical minimum voltage needed to split water molecules into hydrogen and oxygen. Using a photosynthesis-like...
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2016 Toyota Mirai Fuel-Cell Sedan: 312 Miles Of Range, 67 MPGe
The 2016 Toyota Mirai will have over 300 miles of range.
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Seven Barriers To Alt-Fuel Vehicles: Can Hydrogen Fuel Cells Overcome Them?
Among owners and advocates of zero-emission vehicles, few topics generate as much back-and-forth debate (to put it politely) as those cars powered by hydrogen fuel cells. Discussions of wells-to-wheels carbon footprint, the presently nonexistent hydrogen fueling infrastructure, and their purported...
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Toyota Fuel-Cell 'Megafactory' Matches Tesla Gigafactory In Impact
As shown by its roughly half-million references in Google, Tesla’s lithium-ion cell and battery Gigafactory is a big deal. And deservedly so. Producing the same volume of lithium-ion cells in one building in 2020 as were produced by the whole industry during 2013 should allow substantial...
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Hyundai Tucson Fuel Cell Global Sales Below Target, Company Admits
Hyundai will fall short of its 1,000-unit target for the end of 2015.
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Second Toyota Mirai Video: Hydrogen Is Like First Oil Well
Toyota goes to the birthplace of the oil industry to demonstrate electrolysis.
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