6/17/2009 College Admissions Advisor Know It’s About The Project! The lessons learned along the way taught them more about life and gave them the tools for success that they didn’t learn in high school, or even college. Source: PRLog
6/17/2009 World Automakers Reaffirm Fuel Cell Commercialization Time Tables Automakers are affirming and in some cases accelerating their fuel cell commercialization time tables this summer despite the current controversy over U.S. funding for hydrogen fuel cell vehicles. Source: AltEnergyMag.com
6/5/2009 Toyota's Problem With Plug-in Hybrids The “Meeting of the Minds,” an international city planning conference held in the most urban of settings (the 60th floor of a JP Morgan Chase office tower) was perhaps an unlikely setting for a tutorial on the inherent problems of plug-in hybrid (PHEV) cars, but Toyota was the main sponsor and it had a point to get across. Source: Bnet.com
5/29/2009 Hydrogen Road Tour 2009-on the road with the CAFCP This week I joined the 2009 Hydrogen Road Tour, or H2RT, a nine-day series of media, VIP and public events in California, Oregon, Washington and British Columbia to highlight the communities where fuel cells and hydrogen stations are entering early commercial markets. Source: Examiner.com
5/28/2009 Schwarzenegger promotes hydrogen fuel in L.A. Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger, who already owns a Hummer fueled with vegetable oil, today touted the latest “green” addition to his fleet: a hydrogen-powered Honda FCX Clarity. Source: LATimes.com
5/28/2009 Electric cars 'not magic bullet', says report Emissions targets cannot be met by solely investing in technology to produce electric cars, according to a report published today. Source: Channel4.com
5/25/2009 Hydrogen shortchanged at the Department of Energy This dealt an unnecessary blow to innovation at a time when our nation is trying to move away from fuels that pollute our atmosphere and make our national security less beholden to the whims of foreign despots. Source: PhoenixvilleNews.com
5/23/2009 From the Road: Hydrogen Road Tour 09' Co-organizers of the event are blogging on the news and progress of the tour. Source: HydrogenRoadTour.org
5/20/2009 Fuel-cell car rally opens Norway's hydrogen highway Norway opened a 560 kilometer (350 mile) "hydrogen highway" on Monday with more than a dozen hydrogen-powered cars rallying along a scenic route between its capital city Oslo and North Sea oil hub Stavange Source: Reuters.com
5/19/2009 Loss of fuel cell research funds doesn't deter Bay Area organizations The mood was heavier this week at Sandia National Laboratory's Hydrogen Research program in Livermore, after Energy Secretary Steven Chu recently cut funding for fuel cell research next year by $100 million Source: Mercury News
5/18/2009 Toyota Questions Cost, Batteries of Plug-In Hybrids Toyota Motor Corp. said U.S. consumer demand for plug-in hybrids, a technology backed by President Barack Obama, may be limited by the vehicles' price, recharge time and battery durability. Source: Bloomberg.com
5/11/2009 Honda, GM Stick to Fuel-Cell Plans as Obama Guts Hydrogen Funds Honda Motor Co., General Motors Corp. and Toyota Motor Corp. say they’ll push ahead with development of hydrogen-powered autos after the Obama administration gutted fuel-cell funding plans in favor of biofuels and batteries. Source: Bloomberg.com
4/28/2009 Middle schoolers take fuel cell car, knowledge to national contest They'll compete next week in Washington, D.C., with a flashy red hydrogen fuel cell car they built over the last five months, and the math and science knowledge they have gleaned throughout their academic lives. Source: BillingsGazette
4/27/2009 Hydrogenics Continues to Advance Fuel Cell Bus Programs in North America Hydrogenics Corporation, a leading developer and manufacturer of hydrogen generation and fuel cell products, today announced that it has sold another HyPM HD fuel cell power module as part of the Federal Transit Administration's (FTA) National Fuel Cell Bus Program (NFCBP). Source: Hydrogenics.com
4/23/2009 Penn State car gets first place in Shell Eco-marathon For many cars, 30 miles per gallon is reasonably economical, but last week eight Penn State mechanical engineering students found a way to improve that number by about 64 times. Source: Penn State Collegian