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0Toyota to power, heat Torrance, CA facility with 1MW Ballard fuel cell generator 1304686980
Ballard Power Systems will deploy one of its one-megawatt CLEARgen fuel cell generators at Toyota's U.S. sales and marketing headquarters in Torrance, CA. The CLEARgen fuel cell system will utilize hydrogen produced by steam-reformation of renewable biogas generated at a nearby landfill. ...
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Ballard fuel cell power modules to power 5 HyNor hydrogen buses in Norway 1298332800
Van Hool NV, a Belgium-based coach manufacturer, has contracted Ballard Power Systems to supply fuel cell power modules for five hydrogen buses. The fuel cell-equipped coaches will be operated by the HyNor Oslo Buss group and swing into action in late 2011, servicing the city of Oslo, ... -
Ballard will make "clean power" hydrogen from bleach by-product 1281199200
If you're going to use hydrogen to power a vehicle, the absolute best way to get that H2 is to snag it from some waste stream somewhere. The Vancouver-based Ballard Fuel Cell Systems has announced it will something similar at a K2 Pure Solutions bleach production facility in Pittsburg, CA. Right ...
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Ballard gets $6.2M in DOE funding for non-automotive fuel cells 1268169120
Ballard fuel cell forklift – Click above for a high-res image galleryBallard Material Products has received the bulk of $6.2 million in Department of Energy funding for research work into fuel cell materials aimed at cutting the cost and improving durability of the electro-chemical energy ... -
Thousand Oaks, CA to get two Ballard-powered fuel cell buses 1267812120
The SunLine Transit Agency in Thousand Oaks, CA will be expanding its hydrogen fuel cell test program this year with two new buses. The buses with different chassis and powertrain configurations will both use fuel cell stacks from Ballard Power Systems of Vancouver, British Columbia. The first bus ... -
Video: New Flyer's fuel cell buses moving people at Winter Olympics 1265396100
Olympic fuel cell buses – Click above to watch video after the jumpWith the Winter Olympic games set to kick off next week in Vancouver, British Columbia, many of the visitors to the ski resort of Whistler (just north of the city) will be getting zero emissions transportation. BC Transit ... -
Ballard gets contract to supply fuel cells to Daimler 1261602480
Mercedes-Benz Citaro FuelCELL-Hybrid - click above for high-res image galleryBallard Power Systems has announced that it has received a $24 million contract from Daimler to supply its FCvelocity fuel cell systems. At the beginning of 2008, Ballard sold off its automotive fuel cell assets to ... -
H2 Olympics power: BC Transit gets first fuel cell bus with Ballard stack 1255384620
Over two years ago, we first learned the British Columbia Transit was planning to acquire 20 fuel cell-powered buses for use in the Whistler area ahead of the 2010 Winter Olympics. The first of those buses was recently delivered to the transit company with the rest arriving over the coming weeks ...
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London chooses American buses for hydrogen fleet 1195565280
London was one of the first cities to use fuel-cell buses provided by Daimler, as consequence of the CUTE (Clean Urban Transport for Europe) pilot program a few years ago. Ken Livingstone, London's mayor, has decided that the program was satisfactory enough and has ordered the purchase of new ...
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Video: Ballard sells auto fuel cell assets, CEO says fuel cell cars are not dead 1194557640
Ballard says they have finalized the rumored deal to sell their auto fuel cell unit, called Burnaby, which includes 113 employees (20 percent of the company's workforce). Ballard will sell the unit to Ford and Daimler for a swap of 34.3 million Ballard shares, worth $168 million and a new company ...
