This article features a retro-fitted Ford Focus, Quentin Wilson and Lisa Rogers! This year's EcoRally had some wonderful sports cars, flashing around.... and costing a fortune! BUT, crucially this film features a standard family car that's had a Hydrogen system added. It's a straight forward dual-fuel conversion. This suddenly makes so much more sense than worrying about battery life, mining Lithium and Cadmium and battery disposal. Hydrogen's only emission is water! ITM power, who converted this car, are backing Hydrogen as the winner of the "Alternative to Oil" contest. As Quentin points out in this article, cars that we expected to see in 15 year's time, are already on our roads NOW!
“The energy future of mankind lies in hydrogen. Kia Motors will take the initiative in the 2012 fuel cell leadership for securing the FCEV technology and fully commercializing fuel cell vehicles with its firm belief that hydrogen fuel cell vehicles are our future.”
Hyundai/Kia plans on producing 1000 hydrogen fuel cell vehicles in 2012.
Ohio State University's Buckeye Bullet 2 set a new speed record for electric vehicles at Speed Week on the Bonneville Salt Flats. The streamlined hydrogen fuel cell topped 300 mph.
MISSION 01. THE VENTURI JAMAIS CONTENTE - THE VENTURI BUCKEYE BULLET
110 years after being the first vehicle in all categories to go faster than 60 mph (65.2 mph in April 1899), the salt flats in Bonneville, Utah, saw the Jamais Contentes descendant reaching about 302 mph (487 km/h), and establishing a new world speed record for an electric drive vehicle and moreover equipped with a hydrogen fuel cell.
The Venturi Buckeye Bullet is now officially one of the few land vehicles having passed the symbolic speed of 300 mph.
Production of the Mercedes-Benz B Class F-CELL will begin in late 2009. The first of around 200 vehicles will be delivered to customers in Europe and California at the beginning of 2010. Hydrogen fueling stations are continuing to be planned for and built in California as well as in Europe.
The Toyota Fuel Cell Hybrid Vehicle (FCHV) -adv (mid-size SUV) achieved an estimated driving range of 431 miles in a recent real-world test with the Department of Energy. The vehicle has 10,000 psi high-pressure hydrogen tanks.
Award-winning actor Helen Mirren and director Taylor Hackford hit the road and share about their experience driving the zero-emissions Chevy Equinox Fuel Cell vehicle.
Chevrolet Equinox fuel cell electric vehicles pass 1 million miles of gasoline and tailpipe pollution-free driving in real-world conditions.
The Hydrogen Road Tour 2009 brought fuel cell vehicles to the West Coast. Traveling 1,700 miles from Chula Vista, California to Vancouver, British Columbia. It covered 28 cities 2 countries in 9 days. May 26th - June 3rd 2009.
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