The Government of Canada also remains committed to aligning with the most ambitious light-duty vehicle greenhouse gas emission regulations in the United States. Supporting a strong and unified North American automotive sector to transition towards zero-emission vehicles contributes to Canada’s climate change goals, and positions Canadian and American workers alike to benefit economically from this global shift.
Building a green economy: Government of Canada to require 100% of car and passenger truck sales be zero-emission by 2035 in Canada
Publish Date: 6/30/2021
Hydrogen Fuel Cells and Batteries: United They Stand
Publish Date: 6/30/2021
CTE’s experience deploying zero-emission trucks and buses around the country has proven that successful deployments require matching the appropriate technology to the application. Fuel cell and battery electric technologies are not mutually exclusive, as some political discussions may indicate. Different operational demands necessitate different technology solutions, each with benefits and tradeoffs for various operating conditions, duty cycles, and agency resources. This applicability factor is crucial within the transit bus industry and will become increasingly important as these technologies expand to other transportation sectors with particularly strenuous duty cycles.
Racing for Hydrogen: How Gas Giants Are Vying to Stay Relevant
Publish Date: 6/28/2021
Such transitions are important for getting the clean hydrogen market off the ground, said Daryl Wilson, executive director of the Hydrogen Council. The industry group’s members include gas giants, automakers and Microsoft Corp.
“The marginal cost of converting gray hydrogen into blue hydrogen is much lower than jumping to green hydrogen directly,” Wilson said. “As long as blue hydrogen is useful from an economic point of view, there is no reason for it to go away.”
Fukushima Prefecture and Toyota Begin Discussions Aimed at Building a Hydrogen-based City of the Future in Fukushima Prefecture
Publish Date: 6/4/2021
Hyundai Elec City Fuel Cell Bus Begins Testing in Europe
Publish Date: 6/25/2021
Fuel Cell Electric Vehicles Powered by Ballard Have Now Driven Over 75 Million Kilometers – Enough to Circle the Globe 1,870 Times
Publish Date: 3/18/2021
How mirrors could power the planet... and prevent wars
Publish Date: 6/19/2021
Note: A video story about Heliogen, which is testing their solar array in Lancaster, CA. Minute 6:30 is when the CEO talks about hydrogen.
London: Mayor launches England’s first hydrogen double decker buses
Publish Date: 6/23/2021
Nikola Invests $50 Million in Wabash Valley Resources to Produce Clean Hydrogen in the Midwest for Zero-Emission Nikola Trucks
Publish Date: 6/22/2021
By ‘land, sea and air,’ GM plans to expand fuel-cell business beyond EVs
Publish Date: 6/21/2021
“Batteries have a role to fill, but to fully electrify and deal with the breadth of the different applications that we’re talking about, you also have to have hydrogen fuel cells,” said Charlie Freese, who leads GM’s global fuel cell business. “They complement each other extremely well.”
BMW starts European road tests of hydrogen fuel cell cars
Publish Date: 6/21/2021
GM technology could help commercial jets shed 2 tons of weight at takeoff
Publish Date: 6/18/2021
Germany to support 500 MW electrolyzers abroad with $1.1 billion
Publish Date: 6/17/2021
The initiative, part of Germany's Eur2 billion hydrogen abroad strategy, would secure long-term hydrogen supply contracts via annual auctions, with funding approved to 2030, it said.
First cargoes of hydrogen or derivatives such as ammonia were expected from 2024.
Energy minister Peter Altmaier named six potential exporters (Saudi Arabia, Canada, Australia, Russia, Ukraine and Chile) with whom he had had talks in recent months.
Hopium Unveils Its Hydrogen-powered Sedan Prototype And Opens The First 1000 Pre-orders
Publish Date: 6/17/2021
The Hopium teams are already fully committed in carrying out the next steps, aiming to produce Hopium Machina on an industrial scale, with a new rendez-vous expected in the first quarter of 2022.
About Hopium
Olivier Lombard, the youngest winner of the 24 hours of Le Mans, founded Hopium, a manufacturer of high-end hydrogen-powered vehicles, as an achievement resulting from his experience acquired on the racing circuits.
Norway: Roadmap for hydrogen: Node and research
Publish Date: 6/11/2021
The road map has the vision that in 2050 a market will be established for the production and use of hydrogen. In the short term, the government will by 2025 facilitate the establishment of five hydrogen hubs in maritime transport in collaboration with private actors, the establishment of one or two industrial projects with associated production facilities and between five and ten pilot projects for the development and demonstration of new and more cost-effective hydrogen solutions and technologies.
bp, Aker and Statkraft join forces for offshore wind in the Norwegian North Sea
Publish Date: 6/14/2021
SoCalGas' H2 Hydrogen Home Named a Fast Company 2021 World-Changing Idea; Project recognized for its innovative home energy design
Publish Date: 6/15/2021
GM to supply electric batteries, hydrogen fuel cell systems for Wabtec locomotive
Publish Date: 6/15/2021
Under the nonbinding memorandum of understanding, GM will supply Ultium electric batteries and Hydrotec hydrogen fuel cell power cubes. Terms of the deal were not disclosed.
"Wabtec's decision to deploy GM's Ultium battery and Hydrotec hydrogen fuel cell systems further validates our advanced technology," GM President Mark Reuss said.
Ultium is a key part of GM’s strategy to roll out efficient and cost effective electric vehicles, and closing a deal with Wabtec would help spread development costs over a larger volume of batteries. GM is developing a hydrogen fuel-cell-powered commercial truck with truck maker Navistar (NAV.N).
GM's Ultium batteries will be built by the company's joint venture with South Korea battery maker LG Energy Solution (051910.KS), which is building plants in Ohio and Tennessee. The hydrogen fuel-cell systems will be assembled by GM's joint venture with Honda (7267.T) in Brownstown, Michigan.
San Francisco Bay Area’s AC Transit orders an additional 20 fuel cell-electric buses from NFI’s New Flyer
Publish Date: 6/14/2021
Supported by Federal Transit Administration funds, the order follows AC Transit’s 2019 purchase of ten hydrogen fuel cell-electric and five battery-electric buses from NFI, and demonstrably advances AC Transit’s Clean Corridors Plan (a commitment to operate a 25% zero-emission fleet by 2023) and ultimately its implementation of the California Air Resources Board (“CARB”) Innovative Clean Transit Regulation that requires all California agencies to transition to zero-emission bus fleets by 2040.
U.S. Must Take Lead Role in Hydrogen Use For Our Energy Future
Publish Date: 6/14/2021
Imagine a leadership role for the U.S. in the multi-trillion-dollar hydrogen economy that is emerging with millions of jobs created. It doesn’t take much imagination to recognize that this has to be part of the future.
How Japan’s Big Bet on Hydrogen Could Revolutionize the Energy Market; The country’s effort to be carbon-free by 2050 relies on a fuel source many see as too expensive and unrealistic
Publish Date: 6/14/2021
Why green hydrogen is reaching a tipping point; Five drivers of the low-carbon hydrogen market boom
Publish Date: 6/14/2021
After a pandemic-related dip in Q2 and Q3 2020, investment in low-carbon hydrogen is once again on the up. At least US$4.5 billion was invested in the hydrogen market in the first quarter of 2021 alone, with 55 projects announced.
Until 2019, global estimated electrolyser manufacturing capacity was a mere 200 MW. That has since jumped to 6.3 GW of current announced electrolyser capacity, with 1.3 GW added in Q1 2021 alone and another step up in the announced pipeline.
Of course, this still represents only a small percentage of the almost 1,000 GW of electrolyser capacity needed by 2050 to meet our demand forecasts. However, the exponential rate of growth in manufacturing capacity is clear and likely to continue.
Energy Department seeks to cut hydrogen cost 80% in bid for clean and versatile power
Publish Date: 6/14/2021
Rolls-Royce wants a ‘pioneering’ role in fuel cell applications
Publish Date: 6/10/2021
China's Sinopec targets 500,000 T of 'green' hydrogen capacity by 2025
Publish Date: 6/9/2021