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Financial crisis delays Iceland's hydrogen transportation project

Iceland is a gorgeous place. Just take a look at these Flickr submissions from the island. The country's finances aren't quite so pretty these days, and the reality of the financial crisis is dramatically slowing down the country's attempted shift to a hydrogen economy. Iceland has been testing hydrogen-powered vehicles for years, and the first hydrogen fueling station opened there in late 2007. One reason for the move to hydrogen is that the island country can fairly easily use geothermal energy to make hydrogen from water. The New York Times ... Read more →

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Iceland to test Mitsubishi iMiEV electric cars Sam Abuelsamid

The latest expansion of Mitsubishi's electric car program will be made official today in Iceland. The small North Atlantic nation will join the test efforts for the Mitsubishi iMiEV during 2009. ...

First hydrogen public fuelling station opens in Iceland Xavier Navarro

According to Ecoticias (in Spanish), Iceland opened the world's first hydrogen fuelling station for a bus fleet four years ago. Icelandic New Energy, the owner of the station, has decided that from ...

How perfect does Iceland's Driving Sustainability '07 conference sound? Sebastian Blanco

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Quantum to deliver 10 hydrogen-fueled vehicles to Iceland 2 years ago on Autoblog Green

Since Iceland is so geographically remote and lacking in a lot of natural resources they have been looking for ways to harness the power they do have. Two things that Iceland does have in abundance are ice and geothermal energy. Iceland has been making a major push into using hydrogen as a fuel and ...

Iceland taking a serious look at hydrogen 2 years ago on Autoblog Green

Currently, most hydrogen is made in methods that most would consider rather un-green. Some people have proposed using solar or wind power to produce electricity which could then be used to free hydrogen molecules from water. Then, that hydrogen could be used to power an electric car, thus ...

Iceland has vast resources to produce hydrogen 2 years ago on Autoblog Green

Iceland doesn't have any fossil fuel resources of it's own, but it has no shortage natural energy from deep within the earth. Thanks to abundant volcanic activity from the mid-Atlantic ridge, there is plenty of geothermal energy available. This has provided Iceland the opportunity to try and ...


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