"Write Your Congressman" to Restore H2 Fuel/Cell Funding - and a Comment WASHINGTON, DC - Both the U.S. Fuel Cell Council (USFCC) and the National Hydrogen Association (NHA) have set up websites to make it easy to contact your Members of Congress to urge restoring hydrogen and fuel cell funding that Energy Secretary Steven Chu proposes to cut out of the fiscal year 2010 budget.
Ex-GM Fuel Cell Chief McCormick Resigns from DoE Committee Over H2 Budget Cut WASHINGTON, DC - J. Byron McCormick, who headed General Motors’ global fuel cell program effort for several years until his retirement last December, resigned from the U.S. Energy Department’s Hydrogen and Fuel Cell Technical Advisory Committee last month to protest Secretary Steven Chu’s decision to zero out DoE’s transportation fuel cell budget.
Foreign Gov'ts in Sync for 2015 Commercial FC Vehicle Launch, GM Paper Says DETROIT - Governments are globally synchronizing policies to start commercialization of fuel cell vehicles by 2015, according to an internal General Motors viewgraph presentation completed in April and made available in early May to The Hydrogen & Fuel Cell Letter.
California-British Columbia Hydrogen Road Tour Gets Underway WASHINGTON, DC – Amid much uncertainty caused by the proposed DoE 2010 fuel cell budget cuts (p.1), the 2009 nine -day 1,700 mile Hydrogen Road Tour from Southern California to Vancouver BC, Canada got underway last month.
Proton Motor Unveils Triple Hybrid Fuel Cell Bus Developed with Czech Skoda Electric PUCHHEIM, GERMANY – Fuel cell developer Proton Motor Fuel Cell GmbH last month unveiled here what it called the world’s first triple-hybrid fuel cell transit bus, a joint development with Czech trolley bus maker Skoda Electric and the Czech UJV Nuclear Research Institute plc.
Events The “Hydrogen + Fuel Cells: International Conference and Trade Show” will be held May 31st-June 3rd at the Vancouver Convention + Exhibition Centre in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada. Details: Lindsay McKillop, Hydrogen & Fuel Cells Canada, lmckillop@h2fcc.ca.
