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FUEL CELLS: Amplats to trial hydrogen powered engines in 400 trucks at Mogalakwena
- Date: 01-07-20
- Category: FUEL CELLS
- Source: Mining MX
ANGLO American Platinum (Amplats) will next year convert 400 mine haul trucks to hydrogen power in a pilot plant that, if successful, will be extended throughout Anglo American, said Bloomberg News.
View full storyFUEL CELLS: Fuel cell technology to power motorsport
- Date: 24-06-20
- Category: FUEL CELLS
- Source: H2 View
Michelin and Symbio have joined forced as preferential partners of the MissionH24 programme for the development of fuel cell power in motor racing.
View full storyFUEL CELLS: Toyota bets on fuel cell future with FAW, other automakers
- Date: 05-06-20
- Category: FUEL CELLS
- Source: Auto News
TOKYO -- Toyota Motor Corp. is teaming up with five Chinese companies including Beijing Automobile Group Co. and China FAW Corp. to develop fuel cells for commercial vehicles, seeking to push deeper into China and the market for the alternate energy source.
View full storyFUEL CELLS: Bosch calls on EU to 'boldly embrace' fuel cell vehicles to meet climate goals
- Date: 14-05-20
- Category: FUEL CELLS
- Source: Auto News
FRANKFURT -- Robert Bosch has called on the European Union to encourage a switch to a hydrogen-based economy to meet the bloc's climate commitments. Without fuel cells that use compressed hydrogen to generate electricity or synthetic "eFuels" that require the gas as a building block, the EU risks missing its goal of carbon neutrality by 2050, according to Bosch CEO Volkmar Denner.
View full storyFUEL CELLS: Volvo & Daimler form JV for fuel cells for heavy duty vehicles
- Date: 21-04-20
- Category: FUEL CELLS
- Source: Daimler
Sharing the Green Deal vision of sustainable transport and a carbon neutral Europe by 2050, two leading companies in the commercial vehicle industry, Daimler Truck AG and the Volvo Group, have signed a preliminary non-binding agreement to establish a new joint venture. The intention is to develop, produce and commercialize fuel cell systems for heavy-duty vehicle applications and other use cases. Daimler will consolidate all its current fuel cell activities in the joint venture. The Volvo Group
View full storyFUEL CELLS: Climate change: 'Bath sponge' breakthrough could boost cleaner cars
- Date: 17-04-20
- Category: FUEL CELLS
- Source: BBC
Like a bath sponge, the product is able to hold and release large quantities of the gas at lower pressure and cost. Made up of billions of tiny pores, a single gram of the new aluminium-based material has a surface area the size of a football pitch.
View full storyFUEL CELLS: Fraunhofer leads fuel cell recycling project
- Date: 07-04-20
- Category: FUEL CELLS
- Source: H2-View
The ‘BreCycle’ project, comprising Fraunhofer, Proton Motor Fuel Cell, MAIREC Edelmetallgesellschaft, Electrocycling and KLEIN Anlagenbau, aims to develop a sustainable process for the processing of fuel cells, with which high-quality material fractions can be generated, especially from the electrode coating, and the polymer membrane can be separated.
View full storyFUEL CELLS: Toyota and Hino to Jointly Develop Heavy-Duty Fuel Cell Truck
- Date: 24-03-20
- Category: FUEL CELLS
- Source: Toyota
Toyota City, Japan, March 23, 2020―Toyota Motor Corporation (Toyota) and Hino Motors, Ltd. (Hino) have agreed to jointly develop a heavy-duty fuel cell truck, and to proceed with initiatives toward its practical use through verification tests and other means.
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