Briefly Noted: Hybrid Reversal Researchers at Imperial College London have stood the standard automotive hybrid fuel cell configuration - big fuel cell, small auxiliary battery for acceleration and uphill driving - on its head and have experimentally put together the opposite.
Briefly Noted: Air Liquide-GM Deal French industrial gas producer Air Liquide says it will provide five 700 bar (10,000 psi) portable fast-fill hydrogen fueling systems to General Motors in the United States.
Briefly Noted: AeroVironment Test Flight Monrovia, CA-based AeroVironment says it has flown its Puma small unmanned aircraft for nearly five hours powered by a hybrid fuel cell battery system in a test flight for the Air Force Research Laboratory.
Briefly Noted: New Business New Business: France’s Technip oil, gas and petrochemical engineering group has been awarded a Euro 60 million ($81.2 million) contract for a 68,700m3/hour hydrogen plant at a refinery in Huelva, Spain.
Briefly Noted: Nuvera Moves Nuvera Fuel Cells, Inc., the developer of multi-fuel processing and fuel cell technology, is in new bigger digs.
Briefly Noted: More Takeovers More Takeovers: ECOtotality, Inc., a Scottsdale, AZ company that seeks to develop and commercialize renewable energy technologies, has acquired the Fuel Cell Store.
