from FutureCars In brief: Turkey has unveiled a hydrogen fuel cell boat that was four years in the making. The word Turkey is, in many respects, leading the world in hydrogen fuel cell and related development. The country has developed a hydrogen fuel cell car (using NaBH4 derived from boron, a plentiful mineral mined in Turkey), [...]
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Turkey Unveils Hydrogen Fuel Cell Boat
January 7th, 2012 
Aaron Turpen 
Posted in Fuel Cell Cars 
Tags: boat, Fuel cell, hfcv, Hydrogen, Istanbul Technical University, turkey 
Comments OffRetired Electrical Engineer Believes in Fuel Cell Vehicles
December 27th, 2011 Aaron Turpen by John R, HFCV Please take me seriously since I am a retired electrical engineer. I began my career I as a technician at Bell Telephone Laboratories. I worked there from 1967 through 1970. I then went to Wescom (now Rockwell company) and worked there from 1970-1978 were I was promoted to design engineer, and [...]
Posted in Fuel Cell Cars, Hydrogen Tags: Electric vehicle, Electrical engineering, Electronics and Electrical, Engineering, Technology Comments OffNew Holland NH2 Fuel Cell Tractor Going To Real-World Testing
November 30th, 2011 Aaron Turpen from GreenBigTruck The first ever hydrogen fuel cell vehicle was a tractor, the 1959 Allis-Chalmers. New Holland recently picked up that torch and is continuing with it. They’ve announced real-world testing for their NH2 prototype. We began talking about the New Holland NH2 fuel cell tractor last year. Since it’s inception in 2009 and debut in [...]
Posted in Alternative Vehicles, Fuel Cell Cars Tags: Allis-Chalmers, Fuel cell, Hydrogen, new holland, nh2, tractor Comments OffNissan’s New Fuel Cell Much Cheaper
October 16th, 2011 Aaron Turpen Nissan Motor Co has announced that their latest fuel cell stack for testing in hydrogen fuel cell vehicles is 1/6th the cost of its 2005 predecessor and provides double the power density. This incredible step forward is thanks to better structuring of the cells to cut its size in half and reducing the use of [...]
Posted in Fuel Cell Cars, Hydrogen, Hydrogen Cars Tags: Electric vehicle, Fuel cell, Hydrogen, Nissan Motor, Power density, Technology Comments OffThe Mercedes-Benz F125! Fuel Cell Plug-in
September 25th, 2011 Aaron Turpen Mercedes-Benz presented a research vehicle called the F125! (125 years of the automobile) at the Frankfurt Motor Show. The vehicle is a fuel cell plug-in hybrid with a range of about 621 miles (1,000km). Intended to demonstrate emissions-free mobility by looking ahead to 2025, the luxury coupe incorporates many of Mercedes’ developing technologies that appear [...]
