Stories about: hydrogen

Hydrogen Cars to Benefit from Coconut Kernels

22 Oct 2014, 09:39 UTC · By: Gabriel Brindusescu / The problem with fuel cell cars is that the hydrogen they need to create electricity on board is quite expensive to store safely. Thus a lot more money needs to be invested into the infrastructure, ...

Win Toyota’s First Fuel Cell Vehicle, the FCV

9 Oct 2014, 09:28 UTC · By: Gabriel Brindusescu / Want to put your name in the automotive history the easy way? Toyota says you can be a fuel cell vehicle pioneer by winning the company’s first production FCV this month. When Toyota rolled...

Toyota High-Pressure Hydrogen Tanks Are Safe, According to Japanese Law

29 Aug 2014, 14:16 UTC · By: Gabriel Brindusescu / When it comes to fuel containers holding a gas at a 700-bar pressure, there’s no room for mistakes. You’ve probably seen what happens when a tire inflated at around 3 bar explodes. Now m...

Hydrogen Can Be Obtained Using Sun, Water and a Special Protein

25 Aug 2014, 14:43 UTC · By: Gabriel Brindusescu / Several automakers out there are struggling to bring fuel cell cars on the road for a decent amount of money. Even so, the problem of where we’ll get that amount of hydrogen for them still rem...

Japan’s Prime Minister Testing the Toyota FCV

31 Jul 2014, 12:53 UTC · By: Gabriel Brindusescu / You know you did a good job if your country’s prime minister wants to test your product by himself and that’s what Toyota recently discovered after Japan’s prime minister Shinzo Ab...

The Toyota FCV Could Be Named Mirai

30 Jul 2014, 09:04 UTC · By: Gabriel Brindusescu / At the beginning of this year, we got really excited about the fact that Toyota registered the “Mirai” trademark, which at that moment meant only one thing - it must be the next Supra. W...

Everything You Need to Know About Fuel Cell Vehicles

25 Jul 2014, 18:11 UTC · By: Gabriel Brindusescu / A lot of fuss has been recently created around fuel cell vehicles, which are advertised as the cars of the future and will hit mass production next year. Since we heard a lot of questions lately fro...

Toyota FCV Hydrogen Sedan To Get Huge Incentives in Japan

24 Jul 2014, 16:56 UTC · By: Gabriel Brindusescu / As when the first Prius emerged, people are now pretty reserved regarding Toyota’s new hydrogen-fueled sedan. Some say that its manufacturing process and fuel obtaining will put out the same a...

Toyota Asks NHTSA for Certain Safety Rule Exemption to Sell its FCV

1 Jul 2014, 15:09 UTC · By: Gabriel Brindusescu / Since electric vehicles started to reach more ground into the auto world, the government thought of a set of new rules to keep them safe. Toyota is due to roll out its FCV next year, but due to its ...

Radical RXC Gets a 669 HP Hydrogen Power Plant

1 Jul 2014, 12:18 UTC · By: Gabriel Brindusescu / Hearing this for the first time you might ask how the funk did a company that exists for only 17 years make a hydrogen-powered vehicle that boasts over 600 hp while Toyota’s FCV can put out on...

Production Toyota FCV Makes First US Appearance at 2014 Aspen Ideas Festival

30 Jun 2014, 16:04 UTC · By: Gabriel Brindusescu / After being unveiled at a press conference in Japan last week, the production version Toyota FCV just made its public debut at the 2014 Aspen Ideas Festival, an event focusing on imagining a greener...

First Hyundai Tucson Fuel Cell Delivered to US Customer

12 Jun 2014, 12:31 UTC · By: Mircea Panait / Dubbed by the South Korean manufacturer as the "first mass-produced fuel cell vehicle", the hydrogen-powered SUV was delivered to California resident Timothy Bush, the proud owner of the f...

Toyota Sings Up In HyFive Hydrogen Project

4 Apr 2014, 17:06 UTC · By: Gabriel Brindusescu / HyFive won’t be another stupid socializing webpage to post crap on, but a new £31 million project focusing on making hydrogen vehicles a viable and environmentally-friendly choice for Eu...

Toyota FCV Hydrogen Tanks are Bulletproof

17 Jan 2014, 12:25 UTC · By: Gabriel Brindusescu / Next year, Toyota is planning to release the first batch of fuel cell vehicles in California, but will the people embrace the new technology like it did with the Prius, or everyone will remember abo...

Toyota Flips the Bird to Tesla's Elon Musk