Fuel Cells

Are Hybrids Safe For Drivers?

There is a legitimate scientific reason for asking whether hybrid vehicles are healthy for drivers, writes Jim Motavalli, in the New York Times. Motavalli, editor of E: The Environmental Magazine, and author ...

May 6, 2008

Bridgestone Firestone Runs Forklifts On Hydrogen Fuel Cells

Bridgestone Firestone's plant in Aiken County, S.C. is replacing traditional battery-powered forklifts with ones powered by hydrogen fuel cells. A hydrogen fuel pump is being installed across from the plant that ...

April 7, 2008

SunChips Solar Coming-Out Party

Frito-Lay is planning a major ad campaign to tout that one of the factories that makes SunChips is powered by the sun. A field of solar concentrators at Frito-Lay's Modesto, Calif. ...

April 3, 2008

Whole Foods Powers Store With Fuel Cell

A new Whole Foods Market in Glastonbury, Connecticut will be the first supermarket to generate most of its power on-site with a fuel cell. The new 46,000-square-foot store will generate 50 percent of ...

March 11, 2008

Virgin Launches GM Fuel Cell SUV Limo Service

Virgin Atlantic will offer passengers Chevrolet Equinox Hydrogen Fuel Cell cars as part of its upper class limo service. Initially passengers in Los Angeles will take part in the trial which is expected to be ...

March 3, 2008

Rolls-Royce Wants to Commercialize Fuel Cell

Rolls-Royce is looking at how to commercialize its fuel cell business, The Independent reports. John Rose, the CEO, is considering bringing in outside partners to invest in the cell, known ...

February 4, 2008

Shoppers Pass On Diesel, Hybrid Acceptance Continues to Grow

The vast majority of in-market new-vehicle shoppers do not see diesel as a likely mainstream fuel source in the future, according to the latest Kelley Blue Book Marketing Research study.The January 2008 results reveal that ...

January 28, 2008

Closeup On Honda Clarity

Steve Ellis, marketing manager for Honda's fuel cell program, talks with Green Fuels Forecast about the retail launch of the Clarity.

January 24, 2008

Horizon Shows Off Consumer Fuel Cell Products

Horizon Fuel Cell Technologies is at the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas showing off a handful of devices that turn ordinary tap water into electricity which than can be used to supply power to ...

January 9, 2008

GM’s Wagoner: U.S. Needs 15,000 More Ethanol Stations

The U.S. needs more stations that sell ethanol, claims GM CEO Rick Wagoner in this article. Currently, there are about 1400 such stations, 800 more than when GM first started selling its flex fuel ...

January 9, 2008

Number Of Green Jobs Could Hit 40 Million By 2030

A new report (PDF) from the American Solar Energy Society shows that as many as 1 out of 4 workers in the U.S. will be working in the renewable energy or energy efficiency ...

November 9, 2007

Sprint Outlines Use Of Alternative Energy Sources

Sprint has released a little information on its moves into alternative energy sources, many of which are used for backup power in cases of outages. Hydrogen fuel cells have been deployed at more than 200 ...

October 19, 2007

GM Market Tests Fuel Cell Electric Vehicles

GM has launched Project Driveway, the first large-scale consumer market test of fuel cell electric vehicles anywhere, Green Car Congress reports. GM will deploy more than 100 Chevrolet Equinox Fuel Cell electric vehicles among ...

October 17, 2007

Ford Turns Paint Fumes Into Energy

Ford Motor Co. is purchasing a fuel cell from FuelCell Energy for its Oakville, Ontario, facility to reduce paint solvent from automotive painting operations by turning its fumes into 300 kilowatts of electricity. The ...

August 30, 2007

Pepperidge Farm Installs Fuel Cell

Pepperidge Farm is installing a 1.2 MW fuel cell at Pepperidge Farm's Bloomfield, CT, bakery. The initiative is being supported by the Connecticut Clean Energy Fund (CCEF), a ratepayer fund administered by ...

August 20, 2007

Fujitsu Powers Sunnyvale Campus With Hydrogen Fuel Cell

Fujitsu America has announced that it is using a hydrogen fuel cell on its Sunnyvale campus. It will provide 50 percent of the power needed to cool the data center and labs, significantly ...

August 20, 2007

CEOs Sign Numerous Environmental Pledges At Global Compact Summit

A flurry of press releases have come out of the Global Compact leaders Summit that's finishing up in Geneva. Top executives of corporations such as Coca-Cola, Petrobras, Fuji Xerox, China Ocean Shipping Group, Tata Steel, L M ...

July 6, 2007

Corporate America Wants Greener Fleets, Misconceptions Remain

Corporate America is starting to look at the millions of cars it owns or leases for traveling salesmen, executives, and technicians as an area where it can cut down on greenhouse gases and save money ...

June 25, 2007

Senate Approves Energy Bill

The Senate approved energy legislation that would increase fuel-efficiency standards for automobiles, provide tax incentives for development of alternative fuels and require greater use of ethanol, The Wall Street Journal reports. The measure now faces ...

June 22, 2007

Top 10 Greenest Companies In The World

The Independent, along with Ethical Investment Research Services, has put together a guide to the greenest companies in the world. 1. Vestas Wind Systems has more than 30,000 wind turbines generating electricity globally ...

June 4, 2007

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