Fiat’s New Holland Subsidiary Launches First H2 PEM Fuel Cell Tractor TURIN, ITALY – It’s probably mere coincidence, but exactly 50 years after the world’s first fuel cell tractor was photographed plowing some Midwestern field, Fiat subsidiary New Holland unveiled its own very contemporary, very stylish new version here last month.
NRC Rates DoE Basic Science Office Energy Catalysis Program a Success WASHINGTON, DC – In the last ten years, the Energy Department’s Office of Basic Energy Sciences has sponsored more than 1,000 research grants covering basic catalysis research, and the program “has done well,” concludes a National Research Council report released last month.
DoE News: DoE Sec’y Chu Interested in Fuel Cells, but a Skeptic in Other H2 Areas, HTAC Panel is Told ARLINGTON, VA - Steven Chu, the new Obama administration’s Nobel Prize-winning energy secretary, is very interested in stationary fuel cell applications but has concerns about future hydrogen fuel supplies and reservations about the prospects for a widespread hydrogen distribution network for transportation, DoE’s Hydrogen and Fuel Cell Technical Advisory Panel (HTAC) was told last month.
