Hydrogen
The startup is attempting to solve hydrogen’s supply problem by focusing not on novel materials, but on manufacturing.
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Honda’s hydrogen fuel cell-powered CR-V isn’t as dumb as you think
Just like battery-electric cars 20 years ago, hydrogen fuel cell cars suffer from the old chicken and the egg problem. Nobody wants to buy a fuel cell vehicle until the supporting infrastructure is in place, but it’s tough to invest in infrastructure when nobody owns a fuel cell vehicle. Honda says it’s playing the long…
Toyota wants hydrogen to succeed so bad it’s practically paying people to buy the Mirai
Despite automakers like Toyota and Honda pushing fuel-cell vehicles, hydrogen’s future lies elsewhere.
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Hydrogen is back. At least, CES 2024 suggests it is.
Hydrogen vehicles never really caught on, and yet at CES 2024 fuel-cell vehicles of all sizes litter the show floor. What gives?
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Hyundai’s hydrogen Hail Mary
Hyundai said in its CES 2024 keynote it will produce 3 million tons of hydrogen for its steel mills by 2030. That’s not particularly impactful, even if it follows through.
TC+ Roundup: Is European venture showing signs of recovery?
Good morning, and happy Tuesday! Today we’re looking at Q3 venture data coming out of Europe. Overall, European venture capital data is down sharply. But as my colleagues Anna Heim…
Federal hydrogen hub program could give fuel a boost — or the boot
The federal government’s approach to hydrogen is strikingly similar to the way it promoted biofuels a decade ago. That’s not a good thing.
Osmoses gets $11M seed to bring its molecule-scale membranes to the hydrogen market
Today, membrane gas separation represents a relatively small part of the market. But with calls to decarbonize heavy industry, that could change.
Advanced Ionics nets $12.5M Series A to inject green hydrogen into heavy industry
Advanced Ionics hopes its more efficient approach to using electrolysis will give it an unfair advantage in producing hydrogen.
Honda bailed on the Clarity — its only hydrogen-powered car in the U.S. — but the automaker hasn’t quit on fuel cells. That’s the message Honda sent with a peculiar…
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Hyundai’s hydrogen fuel cell concept hints at the performance N brand’s future
Hyundai revealed Thursday a hydrogen fuel cell hybrid concept vehicle called the N Vision 74 that the company says demonstrates the performance sub-brand’s vision for electrification. The Hyundai N sub-brand, the performance-focused arm of the automaker, has been applied to a range of production vehicles since its founding in 2015, from the Hyundai Veloster N…
Hyundai and WeRide plan to fuel self-driving with hydrogen in China
While hydrogen is still relatively niched as a fuel for electric vehicles, a startup in China is jumping ahead to embrace it for autonomous driving scenarios. WeRide, one of the…
SunGreenH2’s nano-scale engineering could double green hydrogen production
If there is ever going to be a national hydrogen economy, we’re going to need to change a few things. One of them is how we produce hydrogen itself, the…
BMW hedges its EV bet, appears poised to repeat mistakes of the past
BMW is on the verge of creating another compromise platform that could hamstring its EV efforts.
Aurora Hydrogen raises $10M, but will its process decarbonize or facilitate tar sand exploitation?
Aurora uses a microwave-based approach to liberate hydrogen from methane.
Hydrogen startup ZeroAvia has a zero-emission vision, but its next plane is a hybrid
ZeroAvia has raised $115 million from United Airlines, Alaska Airlines, British Airways and Amazon on a promise to fly a zero-emission hydrogen fuel cell regional passenger plane as soon as…
Extreme H is an upcoming off-road racing series with hydrogen cars
An off-road racing series that uses hydrogen cars is expected to debut in 2024. Extreme H will be a companion championship to Extreme E, an off-road EV motorsport that held…
Designers hope hydrogen-powered plane will fly halfway around the world without refueling
The FlyZero project, which is led by the Aerospace Technology Institute and funded by the UK government, came up with a concept for a liquid hydrogen-powered midsize aircraft.
With new tech and $3.6M seed, DiviGas aims to clean up hydrogen production
Hydrogen is at the center of many industrial processes and potentially part of major future energy ecosystems, but the process of isolating and storing it is wasteful and expensive. DiviGas,…
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What’s fueling hydrogen tech?
Hydrogen is capturing the attention of governments and private sector players, fueled by new tech, global green energy legislation and post-pandemic “green recovery” schemes.
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Sergey Brin’s airship aims to use world’s biggest mobile hydrogen fuel cell
Sergey Brin’s secretive airship company LTA Research and Exploration is planning to power a huge disaster relief airship with an equally record-breaking hydrogen fuel cell. A job listing from the company, which is based in Mountain View, California and Akron, Ohio, reveals that LTA wants to configure a 1.5-megawatt hydrogen propulsion system for an airship…
RED’s ‘holographic,’ ‘SOLID’ Hydrogen phone will ship this summer
Boutique Android phone makers didn’t have a good 2017, but RED aims to reverse that trend with its high-end Hydrogen handset, which founder Jim Jannard talks up in a recent…
Toyota’s ‘Fine-Comfort Ride’ fuel cell concept aims for long-range flexibility
Toyota is debuting a new concept vehicle for the forthcoming Tokyo Motor Show, and it’s a fuel cell vehicle that’s designed to get around 1,000 km (around 621 miles) on…
I Drove Toyota’s Car Of The Future And It Was Boring
While Tesla is getting everyone excited about the idea of sexy electric cars in every driveway, Toyota has been working on a different technological roadmap: the carmaker that made the…
Hyundai's Blue2 Fuel Cell Concept Is What A Future Car Should Be
Hyundai plans to reveal their rather fetching Blue2 (pronounced “Blue square”) hydrogen fuel cell concept later this week at the Seoul Motor Show. We haven’t been seeing many hydrogen-powered cars…
One thing is clear: Japan loves electric bikes. And now Tokyo-based Iwatani is presenting a model [JP] that’s powered by hydrogen. It isn’t exactly the prettiest vehicle out there, but…
Outside of the cesspool that is New York City, regular folk drive cars to and fro’. And while New Yorkers may get a bad rap for being “mean” or “high-strung”…
Testing on BMW’s Hydrogen 7 Mono-Fuel prototype by the U.S. DOE has concluded that the hydrogen-powered engine surpasses the most rigorous of emissions performance standards. The BMW finds itself beyond…
Fuel cell-powered Lifecar has 250 mile range: 0-60 in seven seconds
[photopress:lifecar.jpg,full,center] A hydrogen-powered sports car will be unveiled at the Geneva Motor Show that begins on Thursday that’s expected to go from 0-60 mph in seven seconds. (It tops out…
New solar cell splits water molecules, produces usable hydrogen
Some really smart researchers at Penn State have created a device that mimics the photosynthesis process that plants use to strip energy from sunlight and water. Their solar cell is…