Posts Tagged ‘hydrogen’
Test Drive the Future: Toyota FCHV-adv
Posted by Matt Kelly | Filed under EV, alternative transportation, concept, event, hydrogen, infrastructure
In our second “Test Drive the Future” installment, Matt McClory, Senior Engineer from Toyota introduces us to the Toyota FCHV-adv at the Alt Car Expo in Santa Monica, which got over 430 miles on a single tank of hydrogen.
In addition to advanced fuel cell technology, the vehicle has an advanced AC system based on Co2 [...]
Tags: Alt Car Expo, CAFCP, FCHV, fuel cell, hydrogen, Toyota
CAFCP Launches “Test Drive the Future”
Posted by Matt Kelly | Filed under EV, alternative transportation, biofuel, concept, hydrogen, infrastructure
This month, the California Fuel Cell Partnership unveiled a new campaign titled, “Test Drive the Future with Matt Kelly,” a series of monthly installments on the non-profit’s YouTube channel highlighting virtual test drive’s of hydrogen powered vehicles.
In the first installment, Dave Barthmuss, GM’s Western Region Communications director, introduced me to the Chevy Equinox Fuel Cell [...]
Tags: Alt Car Expo, CAFCP, Dave Barthmuss, FCHV, fuel_cell, GM, hydrogen, Project Driveway
Day 2: Hydrogen Road Tour 2009-on the road with the CAFCP
Posted by Matt Kelly | Filed under EV, alternative transportation, biofuel, flight, hydrogen, infrastructure, legislation, mass transit
Day two of the 2009 Hydrogen Road Tour began an early day on the Santa Monica Pier, followed by a trip to West LA to one of the newest hydrogen stations in Southern California. This is a mixed use station where in addition to formulating the hydrogen they sell onsite, they also sell gasoline, diesel [...]
Tags: alternative fuel, auto, battery, car, electric car, electric vehicles, energy, environment, EV, GM, hydrogen
Day 1: Hydrogen Road Tour 2009-on the road with the CAFCP
Posted by Matt Kelly | Filed under EV, alternative transportation, infrastructure, legislation
This week I joined the 2009 Hydrogen Road Tour, or H2RT, a nine-day series of media, VIP and public events in California, Oregon, Washington and British Columbia to highlight the communities where fuel cells and hydrogen stations are entering early commercial markets.
H2RT is a joint effort that involves the California Fuel Cell Partnership, California [...]
Tags: auto, battery, CAFCP, car, energy, environment, EV, fuel, fuel_cell, H2RT, hydrogen, NHA, vehicle
2,757 miles per gallon?
Posted by Matt Kelly | Filed under Uncategorized
Sound impossible? Not if you’re an Eco Marathoner.
Congratulations go out to the student-led Alerion Supermileage team from Laval University in Quebec, Canada for achieving the fuel milestone and winning the Grand Prize during the 2009 Shell Eco-marathon Americas, a competition pitting student-built, fuel-efficient prototype vehicle achieves against each other to travel the farthest distance using [...]
Tags: Alerion, biomass, car, concept, cool, diesel, eco, fuel, fuel_cell, hydrogen, Laval, LPG, marathon, Matt_Kelly, mpg, prototype, Purdue, Shell, solar, UCLA
The ElectroVan Electrovair
Posted by Matt Kelly | Filed under Uncategorized
GM’s Electrovan drove only once, but spawned the quest for hydrogen-powered vehicles that continues to this day. While at the GM Heritage Center in Sterling Heights, Mich., I got an introduction to the vehicle and its sister, the Electrovair.
Tags: Electrovair, Electrovan, GM, Heritage Center, hydrogen
FTI: Dispensing Alternative Fuels to the Masses
Posted by Matt Kelly | Filed under Uncategorized
FTI International Group, Inc., is an Ontario, Canada-based company specializing in dispensing systems for CNG, LNG, Hydrogen, Hythane as well as compressor systems and conversion kits. Their markets are primarliy in Asia, India, Pakistan and Bangladesh (and, perhaps surprisingly, not North America). Company President and COO Peter Wressell has his opinions as to why North [...]
Tags: CNG, FTI International Group, hydrogen, Hythane, LNG, Peter Wressell
Hythane: The New Alternative Fuel
Posted by Matt Kelly | Filed under Uncategorized
What do you get when you combine hydrogen and methane? You get Hythane, an engineered alternative fuel blend patented by Hythane Company, LLC out of Littleton, Colo. David Egan, East Coast sales manager for the company, discusses the promise of a fuel that is more combustible and cleaner-burning than natural gas.
Tags: alternative fuel, David Egan, hydrogen, Hythane, methane, natural gas