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Research Institute Unveils Fuel Cell Rail-Less Streetcar/Transit Bus “Train” Hybrid
DRESDEN, GERMANY - It looks like a streetcar without rails, it’s a super-long articulated bus, it’s AutoTram® - a genuinely innovative, fuel cell-powered people transporter that made its debut here last month.

PolyFuel Launches “Drop-In” Hydrocarbon Membrane to Substitute for Fluorocarbons
MOUNTAIN VIEW, CA - Membrane developer PolyFuel Inc. here has developed a new variant of its hydrocarbon membrane engineered for portable applications that it says makes it possible to substitute them directly for traditional fluorocarbon membranes in manufacturing membrane electrode assemblies (MEAs).

Fuel Cell Flying Wing Highlights Hannover Hydrogen & Fuel Cell Group Exhibit
HANNOVER - Aeronautics - both archeological and avant-garde - seem to be among the signifiers of this spring’s round of hydrogen and fuel cell trade shows.

NHA Conference (Cont’d): China’s National H2 Plans, Goals; Mid-Atlantic H2 Coalition
WASHINGTON, DC - China has ambitious hydrogen plans and is in the process of drawing up a national roadmap, but there is a “marked difference” between the Chinese and U.S. approaches, according to an executive involved in the process.

Fast Forward: Stealth Hydrogen IC Development?

Fast Forward: Chinese Fuel Cell Progress

Laminar-Flow Micro Fuel Cell Eliminates Membrane, Can Use Alkaline Chemistry
CHAMPAIGN, IL/CARY, NC - A team of scientists at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (UIUC) has come up with a novel micro fuel cell design that not only does away with the conventional membrane - and problems such as methanol crossover - but that can also function either as an alkaline or acidic system.

Aging PEM Catalysts, Solar Electricity Prospects Described in MIT Publication
CAMBRIDGE, MA - Platinum catalyst particles change size and location over time in a PEM fuel cell stack, contributing to the cell’s declining electricity output, says an article in the March issue of "energy & environment", the newsletter of the MIT Laboratory for Energy and the Environment.