General Motors (GM) and Honda are investing $85m each into a joint venture (JV) that intends to start mass production of hydrogen fuel cells by 2020. The JV, Fuel Cell System Manufacturing, will operate within GM's existing battery pack ...
Toyota Motor will start the sales of fuel cell buses (FC buses) under its own brand from early 2017. Having already undergone repeated field tests for practical use, the Bureau of Transportation of the Tokyo Metropolitan Government plans ...
Nissan is working on a system that will power cars with electricity generated from bio-ethanol. The Solid Oxide Fuel-Cell (SOFC) system is claimed to be the world first for automotive use. It features an e-Bio Fuel-Cell with an SOFC power ...
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At the 2015 Consumer Electronics Show Toyota announced that it will be providing over 5,680 patents related to hydrogen and fuel cell technology to automakers on royalty-free basis. The patient includes technologies used to develop the ...
German auto-parts maker Bosch Engineering is set to unveil its fuel cell control unit (FCCU) for zero-emission vehicles at the 2014MobiliTec specialist trade show in Hannover, Germany. The FCCU, which is developed for zero-emission ...
Tags: Bosch Engineering, Zero-Emission Vehicles, FCCU Technology
A hybrid-electric delivery truck leaving a FedEx distribution center in Charlotte, N.C. The “hydrogen economy” just got a nice push from the Obama administration, which is now partnering with the private sector to facilitate a ...
Tags: hydrogen economy, fuel cells, transportation sector, fuel vehicles
The Toyota Verso compact MPV will become the first vehicle from the Japanese manufacturer powered by a BMW-sourced diesel engine. The addition of the four-cylinder turbo-diesel engine to the Verso (pictured bottom)?range is the first step ...
Daihatsu has revealed two more ‘kei car’ concepts bound for this month’s Tokyo motor show, seemingly shrinking a truck and a minivan in the process. As with the three Daihatsu Kopen concepts revealed last week – ...
Tesla Motors CEO Elon Musk has labelled fuel cell vehicles “bullshit” and hydrogen gas “dangerous” in a presentation at one of the electric car maker’s new German service centres. Musk criticised the safety ...
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The BMW Group, Linde Material Handling and Munich Technical University have received grant notification from the Federal Ministry of Transport, Building and Urban Development for the development of a fleet of hydrogen-powered forklift ...
General Motors is set to collaborate with the US Army in a joint development of hydrogen fuel cell technologies for use in future vehicles. The agreement, which will see GM expand its existing collaboration with the US Army Tank ...
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US-based vehicle manufacturer General Motors (GM) has entered into a new cooperative research and development agreement with US Army Tank Automotive Research, Development & Engineering Center (TARDEC) to develop new hydrogen fuel cell ...
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US carmaker General Motors (GM) and Japanese vehicle manufacturer Honda Motor have collaborated to develop fuel cell system and hydrogen storage technologies through 2020. The collaboration forms part of the automakers' efforts to trim ...
Plug Power, a leader in fuel cell technology for forklifts, today announced that BMW Manufacturing Co. recently expanded the use of Plug Power hydrogen fuel cells at its Spartanburg, S.C., facility to power all material handling trucks and ...
Tags: Plug Power, Processing Machinery
Almost all of the pressure sensors in the market have a diaphragm made of stainless steel (e.g. flush-mounted pressure sensor) or made of other metallic or non-metallic materials such as ceramic. And most pressure sensors are add-on sensors ...
Tags: Pressure Sensor, Viscotec