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.
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.
