Swiss manufacturer Stadler has signed a contract to supply the first ever hydrogen-powered train to run in the US, with an option to supply four more of the vehicles in the future.
Source: https://www.h2-view.com/story/contract-signed-for-first-ever-hydrogen-powered-train-in-the-us/
Hyundai Motor Co. has an ambitious plan to wean the global trucking industry from fossil fuels by creating green commercial trucks with the same power and range as their diesel counterparts.
Source: https://www.trucks.com/2019/11/12/hyundai-nikola-toyota-build-hydrogen-highway/?utm_source=Trucks&utm_campaign=caf48c156d-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2019_11_15_03_20&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_d046a13d70-caf48c156d-72778123
Toyota Motor Corp. is expanding its U.S. hydrogen fuel cell heavy-duty truck program, unveiling a utility tractor rig designed to pull cargo containers at ports.
The automaker showed the truck at the Fuel Cell Seminar and Energy Exposition in Long Beach on Wednesday.
Source: https://www.trucks.com/2019/11/07/toyota-unveils-hydrogen-utility-truck/?utm_source=Trucks&utm_campaign=f2b2178713-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2019_11_07_09_37&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_d046a13d70-f2b2178713-72778123
A coalition of major oil & gas, power, automotive, fuel cell, and hydrogen companies have come together to develop a Road Map to a US Hydrogen Economy. This comprehensive Road Map details how the U.S. can expand its global energy leadership, by scaling up activity in the rapidly emerging and evolving hydrogen economy, as policy makers and industry work together and take the right steps.
Source: http://www.fchea.org/us-hydrogen-study
South Korea has launched a drive aimed at realizing a "hydrogen-powered society" with a series of public-private partnerships.
Source: https://asia.nikkei.com/Business/Business-trends/South-Korea-targets-hydrogen-economy-from-cars-to-cities
The hydrogen fuel-cell-powered Hyundai Nexo has just undergone its first crash test, and subsequently, one of the U.S. Insurance Institute for Highway Safety’s (IIHS) first crash tests of a hydrogen fuel-cell vehicle.
Source: https://driving.ca/hyundai/auto-news/news/hyundais-hydrogen-fuel-cell-nexo-earns-top-crash-safety-award
The Canadian researchers developed a hydrogen supply chain model.
The model that the University of British Columbia (UBC) researchers developed can help boost support for B.C. hydrogen cars, transforming them from a novelty clean transportation idea into everyday transportation within three decades.
Read MoreDue to the new, additional tax planned by the German government, the issue of CO2 has become number one again in recent days. Heating and motoring in particular shall gradually become more expensive, so much so that in the long run fewer and fewer people will be able to afford a car at all. Or they will be forced to buy a new car which is not powered by fossil fuels. The real question is, how bad are alternative motoring concepts for the environment, how do they worsen the greenhouse effect, and are batteries really the solution?
Read MoreHydrogen-powered cars might make a lot of sense, but there are only two public filling stations in Canada: one in Quebec City and one in Vancouver. A third is planned for Montreal and a half-dozen more for B.C.’s Lower Mainland. But outside those areas, without being able to refuel, they’ll literally go nowhere.
Source (subscription required): https://www.theglobeandmail.com/drive/technology/article-hydrogen-powered-cars-are-the-future-but-are-we-ready/
Read MoreHydrogen trains: Are these the eco-friendly trains of the future? Hydrogen-powered trains are said to be the greenest trains out there.
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