GM Rolls Out First Chevrolet Fuel Cell Equinox SUVs TARRYTOWN, NY - Exactly one year after General Motors lifted the curtain on the hybrid fuel cell version of its Chevrolet Equinox SUV (H&FCL Oct. 06), the real thing rolled out last month in day-long media demonstration programs in California and New York.
2007 Fuel Cell Seminar and Exposition: In Search of Markets SAN ANTONIO, TX – Not long ago, in the days when President Bush was peppering his State of the Union addresses with visions of a hydrogen future and fuel cell companies’ stocks soared in the wake of every press release, the annual Fuel Cell Seminar was drawing over 2,000 attendees. Things seem to have settled back down to a more sustainable plateau since those heady days. This year’s event in San Antonio drew some 1,700 people, just about the same as the 2006 Seminar.
PV, Wind Produce Much More H2 Fuel Per Acre Than Biofuels, New Analysis Says MUNICH – A new analysis of land resources needed for the production of close to a dozen alternative transportation fuels, from biodiesel to hydrogen, shows that photovoltaics and wind can generate as much as ten times the amount of energy in form of hydrogen than biofuels from the same acreage.
EU, European Space Agency Study LH2-Fueled Hypersonic Transport Plane PARIS/BRUSSELS – The idea of hydrogen-powered hypersonic airplane travel which got a lot of attention in the 1980s and early 1990s with Ronald Reagan’s “Orient Express,” the “National Aerospace Plane,” and Britain’s HOTOL concepts is being revived by the European Union (EU) and the European Space Agency (ESA).
Tokyo Motor Show Disappoints with Mostly No-Shows In H2, Fuel Cells MAKUHARI, JAPAN - The 40th Tokyo Motor Show, which opened here to the public Oct. 27, was largely a disappointment for what it didn’t show, or say, about any hydrogen and fuel cell technology advances.
