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In a recent paper published in Science, a group of researchers has theorized that a non–precious metal catalyst, with performance that's claimed to be comparable to platinum-based systems, could some day end up in automotive fuel cells. Los Alamos National Laboratory researchers Gang Wu, ...

IndyCar pace vehicles don't have to be gas-gulping, rubber-laying muscle cars. In fact, pace cars can be green machines. Take, for example, the hydrogen-fueled Honda FCX Clarity, which will assume pace car duties at the 2011 Honda Grand Prix of St. Petersburg in late March. This won't be the ...

The Mercedes-Benz B-Class F-Cell is one costly car. At $849 (plus tax) a month, it's not a vehicle that we'd consider wallet-friendly. However, the hydrogen-fed F-Cell is so unlike a conventional auto that its high ...

Powertrain engineering firm AVL choose the Austria Tec Week (PDF warning) at Expo 2010 Shanghai to debut its Fuel Cell Commuter (FCC), a high-tech electric vehicle with a hydrogen fuel cell range extender. At first glance, the FCC looks like nothing more than a multi-passenger golf cart sporting ...

Mercedes-Benz' investment of about 2 billion euros ($2.79 billion U.S. at the current exchange rate) into fuel-cell technology over the past 15 years can now slowly start to pay off. Mercedes has begun taking orders for its B-Class ...

The Big Japanese Three automakers are all working on fuel cell vehicles. This is no surprise, especially to anyone who remembers that, between 1998 and 2004, two out of every three fuel cell patent applications were filed by Japanese companies. What might be a surprise is how big the domestic ...

Toyota has joined the Clean Energy Partnership (CEP) in Europe to help promote low- and zero-emission vehicles and related infrastructure. The automaker will be providing five of its Highlander-based FCHV-adv fuel-cell vehicles available for the CEP test fleet in Berlin and Hamburg, Germany. In ...

Toyota, Nissan and Honda all participated in a fuel cell demonstration run in Japan last week. The three automakers brought their most advanced hydrogen fuel cell vehicles out for the two-day trip from Tokyo to Fukuoka with an overnight stop in Osaka. The driving teams piloted a Honda FCX Clarity, ...

It's difficult to pick the strangest part of Greg Blencoe's post today about his ongoing bet with Joe Romm over the viability of hydrogen cars. It could be the hubris, the feeling of unquestioned "win" ahead for Blencoe (who, of course) came down on the pro-hydrogen-soon of the bet. But what's ...