GM Turns Over First Fuel Cell Truck To U.S. Army for Evaluation HONEOYE FALLS, NY - Sen. Hillary Clinton (D-NY) and Brigadier General Roger A. Nadeau listen attentively to General Motors assistant staff engineer Gary Stottler explaining the inner workings of the first fuel cell-powered pickup truck delivered to the U.S. Army at ceremonies at GM’s research facility here April 1. Clinton was instrumental in helping find the money for the project in the Defense Department’s 2005 funding legislation. The army plans to test the truck through July 2006 at a base in Ft. Belvoir, VA.
Onboard Storage:GM Investigates Advanced Solid State H2 Storage with Sandia, HRL Laboratories LIVERMORE/MALIBU, CA - Acutely aware that onboard storage is a critical key issue to successful commercialization of hydrogen fuel cell vehicles, General Motors is working on advanced hydrogen storage concepts and materials such as sodium alanates and in “destabilized” lithium hydride and magnesium hydrides.
Medis Says it Will Start Production of “1000s Units Per Month” Later This Year NEW YORK - Medis Technologies, Ltd., the developer of what it calls its “The Socket in Your PocketTM” fuel cell charger for handheld devices, last month announced plans to start mass producing “thousands of units per month” in the second half of this year.
Briefly Noted: New Hydrogen Bills Three new hydrogen and fuel cell infrastructure bills were introduced in the U.S. Congress in mid-March.
Briefly Noted: Storage Research New approaches to hydrogen storage technologies were prominently on the agenda of the March 21-25 meeting of the American Physical Society in Los Angeles.
Briefly Noted: Fuel Cell Bike Britain’s Intelligent Energy company has unveiled what it claims is the world’s first purpose-built fuel cell bike.
Briefly Noted: Nuvera/Deere & Co. Nuvera Fuel Cells, Inc., of Milan, Italy and Cambridge, MA, says it has sold a 5.5 kW H2e™ fuel cell power module to agricultural equipment maker Deere & Company.
Briefly Noted: Entegris/Mykrolis Linkup Entegris, Inc., a Chaska, MN-based maker of bipolar and monopolar fuel cell plates, is merging with Mykrolis Corp., Billerica, MA, a global leader in materials integrity management.
Briefly Noted: U.S. Fuel Cell Council The U.S. Fuel Cell Council (USFCC) has started an effort to develop data reporting guidelines and standardized testing procedures for a range of commonly employed solid oxide fuel cell test configurations.
Briefly Noted: Nissan Fuel Cell Testing Nissan Motor Co., Ltd. has begun road testing of its in-house designed new fuel cell stack and high-pressure hydrogen system.
