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The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) will provide as much as $2 million towards a study of hydrogen refueling stations in an effort to collect more data on the use and effectiveness of such fueling cars with H2. The study will be used to figure out what kind of components may be developed to ...

The Department of Energy (DOE) seems to be loaded with cash these days and is stopping just short of throwing the stuff at companies. We're thrilled that several advanced battery companies have received lots of the greenbacks, but the cash flow has to run dry at some point, right? Not yet, because ...

Steven Chu, head of the United Stated Department of Energy, doesn't want to spend huge sums of government money investing in hydrogen technology. That much is certain after Chu decided to slash DOE funding into hydrogen research, though a ...

Earlier this month, the Senate Energy and Water Development Appropriations Subcommittee marked up the FY 2010 DOE budget and restored the hydrogen vehicle funding that President Obama and the DOE had slashed in May. The Congressional love ...

It was huge news back in May when President Obama and the DOE slashed hydrogen vehicle funding from the FY 2010 DOE budget. Since then, hydrogen advocates like CARB have put on the best possible face and asked the DOE to restore ...

The U.S. Department of Energy under President Obama hasn't been kind to hydrogen vehicles in 2009. In early May, the DOE eliminated funding for research into H2-powered vehicles. Since then, the hydrogen vehicle industry has taken ...

It's not difficult to remember the elemental symbol for hydrogen (H) or that it is the most common element in the universe. But what do you do when you're an ambulance medic and the pile-up you've just pulled up at involves one of the GM Equinoxes that will take to the public roads this fall? This ...

The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) announced research awards of $11.2 million for "overcoming the scientific challenges associated with the production, storage and use of hydrogen" this week. While not a huge amount by DOE standards, the money will go to 13 projects that "will focus on fundamental ...

One way the Department of Energy gauges the state of a market is by asking those in the market for news. These are called "Request for Information" (RFI) and are used to develop further policy. The DOE's Hydrogen Program just released an RFI on hydrogen and fuel cell early markets, especially three ...

With the only hydrogen-drive luxury performance automobile on the market (the Hydrogen 7, above, which is actually coming soon), it's no surprise that BMW is supportive of new hydrogen fueling stations. One such station opened at the University of California, Irvine, with BMW as a project ...