The F-City H2—a battery-electric vehicle with a fuel cell range extender—has become the first urban electric vehicle with such an energy pack to be authorized in France. The F-City H2 is the result of a partnership between the Michelin Research and Innovation Center, the French automotive producer FAM Automobiles, EVE Systems, FC LAB and the [...]
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F-City H2 fuel cell range extended electric city vehicle
February 19th, 2012 
Aaron Turpen 
Posted in Featured, Fuel Cell Cars 
Tags: Battery electric vehicle, Fuel cell, Lithium-ion battery, Nickel-metal hydride battery, Plug-in hybrid 
Comments OffSmall Home Hydrogen Production Near Commercialization
January 31st, 2012 Aaron Turpen from Hydrogen Fuel Cars & Vehicles A UK firm called RE Hydrogen has invented a hydrogen compressor that is 30-percent the cost of others on the market. This means that not only can the compressors be smaller but the complimentary electrolyzers can be smaller and less costly as well. According to The Engineer, “Small-scale hydrogen production [...]
Posted in Hydrogen Cars, Other Alternative Cars Tech Tags: Energy storage, Engineer, Fuel cell, Hydrogen, Hydrogen vehicle Comments OffJapanese Students Take Initiative and Build Hydrogen Car
January 26th, 2012 Aaron Turpen from Hydrogen Fuel Cell Cars & Vehicles A group of Japanese students at Osaka Sangyo University took it upon themselves to build a hydrogen car and unveiled it in Tokyo last Friday. They didn’t have the usual support system in place in which to do this. According to the Mainichi Daily News, “This is the first [...]
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Tata Motors Shows Off CNG, Diesel-electric Hybrid, and Fuel Cell Concepts
January 16th, 2012 Aaron Turpen The New Delhi Auto Expo 2012 in India had the nation’s largest auto manufacturer showing off three new alt-fuel concepts. Tata Motors showcased the Tata Nano CNG, the Tata Indigo Manza diesel-electric hybrid (pictured below), the Tata Starbus Fuel Cell, and the Tata Magic Iris CNG (also pictured). These join the company’s already-produced Tata Indica [...]
Posted in Electric Car, Featured, Fuel Cell Cars, Natural Gas Tags: Auto Expo, Compressed natural gas, Fuel cell, Hybrid electric vehicle, India, Tata Indica, Tata Motors, Tata Nano Comments OffTurkey Unveils Hydrogen Fuel Cell Boat
January 7th, 2012 Aaron Turpen 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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