Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 23, 2022

The baseline for the Toyota-Kenworth T680 FCEV truck—codenamed “Ocean”—was a 2017 diesel engine operating about 200 miles a day. Kenworth designed and built the Class 8 T680 FCEVs, while Toyota designed and built the powertrain’s fuel cell electric power system powered by hydrogen.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 28, 2021

The California Energy Commission is awarding $2 million (GFO-20-604, Hydrogen Fuel Cell Demonstrations in Rail and Marine Applications at Ports (H2RAM)) and Southern California Gas Co. SoCalGas) will provide $200,000 in funding to support a project developing a hydrogen fuel cell solution to power harbor craft vessels.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 12, 2018

Alstom’s Coradia iLint ( earlier post ), the world’s first hydrogen fuel cell passenger train, has been granted approval by the German Railway Office (EBA) for passenger service in Germany. Hydrogen is a true low-emission and efficient alternative to diesel. This is a strong sign of the mobility of the future.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 25, 2023

Toyota was earlier granted a Zero Emission Powertrain (ZEP) Executive Order (A-014-1170) from the California Air Resources Board (CARB) for its new heavy-duty fuel cell electric powertrain kit. The hydrogen-fueled powertrain kit includes a 200 kWh Li-ion battery; hydrogen fuel storage tanks (58.8 Earlier post.)

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 7, 2017

A new TOTAL hydrogen filling station on Karlsruhe’s Südtangente ring-road was commissioned on Wednesday. The German Federal Ministry of Transport and Digital Infrastructure approved grants of approx. million) for the hydrogen facility under its National Innovation Program for Hydrogen and Fuel Cell Technology (NIP).

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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 27, 2012

The US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has formally granted a California Air Resources Board (CARB) request for a waiver of preemption for its Advanced Clean Car (ACC) regulations. The fourth regulation establishes requirements for electric and hydrogen infrastructure improvements and is not subject to federal preemption.

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Green Car Congress

MAY 3, 2017

Kenworth continues its advancements on low/zero emission projects focused on Kenworth T680 day cabs for drayage tractor operation in Southern California ports, which are backed by $9 million in government grants awarded last August. Kenworth’s work on these programs is supported by grants of $2.1 million for each project from the U.S.

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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 5, 2019

Shell has been contracted to build a hydrogen refueling station at the Peizerweg bus depot in Groningen to support this fleet of FCEBs, with each bus having a range of 350-to-400 kilometers (220-to-250 miles) between refuelings.

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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 15, 2018

HYON AS has, together with partners, been awarded grants under Norway’s PILOT-E scheme for the development and realization of two maritime projects; a high-speed ferry and a short-sea freighter. HYON is a joint venture established in 2017, owned wholly by Nel ASA, Hexagon Composites ASA and PowerCell Sweden AB.

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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 20, 2013

The US Department of Energy (DOE) released three new reports showcasing strong growth across the US fuel cell and hydrogen technologies market. According to these reports, the US continues to be one of the world’s largest and fastest growing markets for fuel cell and hydrogen technologies. 2012 Fuel Cell Technologies Market Report.

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EV Info

OCTOBER 24, 2022

With just three Hydrogen refuelling station in the UK, convincing motorists to purchase a Hydrogen powered car was always going to be tough. Now it seems that Shell has seen the light and pulled the plug on all its hydrogen car refuelling stations in Britain after the low-carbon technology failed to catch on with motorists.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 2, 2017

Department of Energy (DOE) grant to continue their research in developing low-cost, high-strength carbon fiber. The funding was part of DOE’s strategy to invest in discovery and development of novel, low-cost materials necessary for hydrogen storage and for fuel cells onboard light-duty vehicles.

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 6, 2016

To further this emerging market, DOE also announced a notice of intent ( DE-FOA-0001411 ) to invest $30 million, subject to appropriations, to advance fuel cell and hydrogen technologies. The number of MW shipped grew by more than 65% compared to 2014. 2015 also saw the world’s first fuel cell vehicles for sale.

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 1, 2017

Scientists at Rice University and the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory have predicted and created new two-dimensional electrocatalysts—low-cost, layered transition-metal dichalcogenides (MX 2 ) based on molybdenum and tungsten—to extract hydrogen from water with high performance and low cost.

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 18, 2017

The report also identified 29 currently Open-Retail hydrogen fueling stations from as far south as San Diego, to the coastline in Santa Barbara, and as far to the northeast as Truckee. ARB expects continued expansion of the fueling market, and corresponding growth in deployed FCEVs, to continue throughout the rest of 2017 and beyond.

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 9, 2017

Through this application, Plug Power extends its reach into the on-road electric vehicle market, increasing its served market for fuel cell products and hydrogen fueling stations. Plug Power is developing this technology through a $3-million grant from the Department of Energy with FedEx.

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Green Car Congress

MAY 2, 2017

The UPS trucks are equipped with a 32 kW Hydrogenics fuel cell coupled to 45 kWh of battery storage and 10 kg of hydrogen fuel. where UPS will validate its design and core performance requirements by testing it on the street starting the third quarter of 2017. The first FCEV prototype will be deployed in Sacramento, Calif.,

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 17, 2017

Fuel from True Zero ’s hydrogen-fueling stations during 2016 powered more than 3.7 To help car owners and others understand the benefits of driving on hydrogen, True Zero will post labels at its hydrogen charging stations showing the societal-impacts of driving a hydrogen-powered fuel-cell vehicle.

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 21, 2017

In 2016, DOE national laboratories identified the potential of hydrogen to decarbonize deeply a multitude of sectors in a proposal termed “H2@Scale”. Proposals will be due by 15 September 2017. Example H2@Scale Topics. Click to enlarge.

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Charged EVs

FEBRUARY 23, 2021

Val Miftakhov got into the EV game in 2010 when he founded eMotorWerks, which created an innovative smart charging solution and was acquired by the Enel Group in 2017. His new company, ZeroAvia, is developing an aircraft powertrain energized by hydrogen fuel cells. million) grant from the UK government, and $21.4

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 25, 2009

The California Energy Commission has awarded a $1-million grant to UC Riverside’s College of Engineering-Center for Environmental Research and Technology (CE-CERT) to build a process demonstration unit (PDU) to convert waste biosolids to synthetic diesel fuel. billion gallons per year by 2017. Source: Raju et al. Click to enlarge.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 23, 2015

million to investigate further highly promising metal-organic frameworks (MOFs) that the team had identified earlier as more efficient materials for high-density on-board hydrogen storage for fuel cell vehicles. The database contains more than 600,000 entries, most of which aren’t MOFs and aren’t relevant for hydrogen storage.

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 4, 2018

Hyundai first began testing autonomous vehicles on US public roads in 2015, having been granted a license by the state of Nevada. Last year at the 2017 CES, Hyundai advanced its trials in urban environments, demonstrating self-driving technologies to the public with its autonomous IONIQ models.

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 5, 2017

Although the demand for oil alternatives—such as natural gas, electricity and hydrogen—may grow, each alternative energy source has its disadvantages. Winners will receive a restricted grant of no less than $50,000 to conduct the research outlined in their proposal within one year.

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Green Car Congress

MAY 20, 2017

The California Air Resources Board (ARB) is seeking solicitations for up to $17 million in grants for the On-Road Advanced Technology Demonstrations Projects approved by the Board as part of the Fiscal Year (FY) 2016-17 Funding Plan for Low Carbon Transportation and Fuels Investments and the Air Quality Improvement Program (AQIP).

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 14, 2017

Erwin Reisner, observed: Our sunlight-powered technology is exciting as it enables the production of clean hydrogen from unprocessed biomass under ambient conditions. We see it as a new and viable alternative to high temperature gasification and other renewable means of hydrogen production. Wakerley, Moritz F. Kuehnel, Katherine L.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 12, 2017

The bio-oil must be de-oxygenated and additional hydrogen must be added to maximize hydrocarbon production. Funding of this project was provided by the US Department of Agriculture-National Institute of Food and Agriculture (USDA-NIFA) through the South Central Sun Grant Program. Zixu Yang, Ajay Kumar, Allen W. Apblett and Ahmed M.

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 11, 2018

The research was supported by National Science Foundation grant DMR-1410175 and a Johns Hopkins University Catalyst Award. The researchers have obtained a provisional patent covering this technique through the Johns Hopkins Technology Ventures office. 7b00046.

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 17, 2010

A hydrogen fuel cell version of the van is due to be launched in 2017. This will be achieved through the use of novel after-treatment techniques, the on-board generation and use of hydrogen and the development and application of new optimization tools. Plug-in Car Grant. The level will be reviewed in January 2012.

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MyEVOnline

JULY 28, 2020

Nikola mainly aims to deal in semi-trucks that involve pure-electric and the hydrogen-powered technology to generate electricity. It will combine stored battery electricity and hydrogen-powered electricity to run the vehicle. Faraday gained popularity in 2017 after launching its first EV, named FF91. Faraday Future.

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 29, 2016

Automakers will be able to accumulate credits for 2014, 2015, 2016 and 2017 model-year vehicles, without regulatory requirements, and use those credits for compliance purposes in subsequent years. The government also offers grants for the purchase and installation of charging stations, both at home and at work.

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 30, 2016

The Wrightbus debuts a new hydrogen fuel cell driveline which will become available to power both single-deck and double-deck buses as it becomes fully production-ready next year. The drive system encompasses a hydrogen fuel cell stack and a battery pack to power the vehicle.

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 2, 2017

The KBA will also carry out its sampling controls on vehicles for which other authorities have granted the type approval. To this end, the German manufacturers will submit a concept by October 2017. For this purpose, the KBA will regularly remove vehicles from the market and check them for compliance. Rail transport.

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Wallbox

JUNE 30, 2021

Finally, EV friendly tax schemes can be an effective alternative to direct monetary grants when it comes to boosting EV purchases. Several municipalities have rolled out grant schemes to support the development of charging stations in housing cooperatives. Investing in Infrastructure.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 13, 2013

In two packages of awards, the California Energy Commission approved more than $44 million to expand the hydrogen fueling infrastructure and increase the number of alter alternative fuel vehicles on the road in the state. Expanding hydrogen fueling stations in California. Hydrogen Frontier, Inc., Linde, LLC, will receive $4.5

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Clean Fleet Report

OCTOBER 1, 2022

It is rare when we post a review of a car that is only available in one of the 50 United States, but such is the case with the 2022 Toyota Mirai hydrogen fuel cell electric vehicle (FCEV), which is only sold in California. It is all about the hydrogen fueling station network, which is slowly being built out.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 10, 2012

The FOA covers 8 broad topics—Vehicles; Biomass; Hydrogen and Fuel Cell Technologies; Advanced Manufacturing; Buildings; Solar; Water; and Wind—and 30 subtopics aligned with Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy (EERE) programs. Hydrogen And Fuel Cell Technologies. Hydrogen Storage.

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