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Honda, GE, GM Lead 1Q Clean Energy Patent Race

June 13, 2008June 18, 2008 by Paul Nastu

The Clean Energy Patent Growth Index, which illustrates clean energy patent trends and the top patent owners, shows fuel cells continuing to dominate long term trends, intellectual property law firm Heslin Rothenberg Farley & Mesiti P.C. reports. Wind patents continue to rise after a third quarter drop, and hybrid and ... Read more »

Verizon Call-Switching Center Powered By Fuel Cells

June 10, 2008June 11, 2008 by Paul Nastu

Verizon’s call-switching center and office building in Garden City, N.Y., uses seven fuel cells, each of which is able to generate 200 kwh of electricity. The company has earned the EPA’s Energy Star Award for operating it, the nation’s largest fuel cell site of its kind. Verizon says the system ... Read more »

Toyota Fuel Cell Hybrid Goes Twice The Distance

June 6, 2008 by Paul Nastu

Toyota has developed a new fuel cell (zero pollution) hybrid powered by hydrogen and electricity that can travel more than twice the distance of its predecessor model without filling up, The AP reports. The maximum cruising range of the FCHV-adv model is 516 miles, compared with 205 miles of the ... Read more »

Are Hybrids Safe For Drivers?

May 6, 2008 by Paul Nastu

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 of several books, notes that the battery-supplied electrical current that moves a hybrid vehicle at low speeds (and ... Read more »

Bridgestone Firestone Runs Forklifts On Hydrogen Fuel Cells

April 7, 2008 by Paul Nastu

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 will be used by Bridgestone Firestone as well as other surrounding businesses.The plant is exchanging 23 forklifts this year ... Read more »

SunChips Solar Coming-Out Party

April 3, 2008April 9, 2008 by Paul Nastu

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. manufacturing facility will go online April 21, one day before Earth Day. It’s not Frito-Lays first solar move. Last ... Read more »

Whole Foods Powers Store With Fuel Cell

March 11, 2008March 12, 2008 by Paul Nastu

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 the electricity and heat and nearly 100 percent of the hot water needed to operate the store ... Read more »

Virgin Launches GM Fuel Cell SUV Limo Service

March 3, 2008March 3, 2008 by Paul Nastu

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 extended to New York City later this year. “Our mission to be the sustainable airline ... Read more »

Rolls-Royce Wants to Commercialize Fuel Cell

February 4, 2008 by Paul Nastu

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 as the SOFC, or possibly in selling a share of the business. Making it a separate company, the article notes, ... Read more »

Shoppers Pass On Diesel, Hybrid Acceptance Continues to Grow

January 28, 2008 by Paul Nastu

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 only six percent of shoppers think diesel is most likely to succeed in becoming a ... Read more »

Closeup On Honda Clarity

January 24, 2008 by Paul Nastu

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

Horizon Shows Off Consumer Fuel Cell Products

January 9, 2008 by Paul Nastu

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 a range of devices – everything from notebook computers to mobile phone that have to ... Read more »

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