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Researchers Find Way to Develop Cheaper Fuel Cells for Electric Cars

A million electric cars could be on roads across North America before the end of the decade with the help of research by the United States Department of Energy, Los Alamos National Laboratory and the University of Waterloo.

19 Jun 2013

Ballard Debuts Next-Generation Methanol-Fuelled Backup Power System for the Telecom Market

Ballard Power Systems has announced the launch of the next-generation ElectraGen™-ME backup power system for use in the telecom market. The product is fuelled by methanol and features a number of enhancements that further improve reliability, durability as well as ease of maintenance and servicing, all important benefits for the growing number of telecom operators deploying these systems around the globe.

From Ballard Power Systems 18 Jun 2013

Plug Power Provides Hydrogen Fuel Cells for BMW Fleet of Trucks at Spartanburg Facility

Plug Power Inc. (Nasdaq:PLUG), a leader in providing clean, reliable energy solutions, today announced that BMW Manufacturing Co. recently expanded the use of Plug Power hydrogen fuel cells at its Spartanburg, South Carolina facility to power all material handling trucks and forklifts, bringing its clean energy fleet to 275 units. This makes it the largest such fleet in North America.

From Plug Power Inc 6 Jun 2013

Ballard and Azure Hydrogen Extend Collaboration to Develop Fuel Cell Buses

Ballard Power Systems has announced the signing of a non-binding Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) with its partner Azure Hydrogen Corporation of Beijing, China (Azure), extending the scope of their collaboration to include fuel cell buses.

From Ballard Power Systems 29 May 2013

SFU Researchers Endeavor to Make Fuel Cell Buses Competitive with Diesel Hybrids

Researchers working to improve durability in fuel cell powered buses, including a team from Simon Fraser University, have discovered links between electrode degradation processes and bus membrane durability.

23 May 2013

Electricity-Producing Bacteria Grows on Hydrogen Gas and Carbon Dioxide

Researchers have engineered a strain of electricity-producing bacteria that can grow using hydrogen gas as its sole electron donor and carbon dioxide as its sole source of carbon.

20 May 2013

Groundbreaking Held for 14.9 MW Fuel Cell Power Project in Connecticut

Gov. Dannel P. Malloy and Bridgeport Mayor Bill Finch today joined officials from Dominion, one of the nation's largest energy companies, and FuelCell Energy Inc. to break ground at the largest fuel cell power project in North America.

4 May 2013

Sirius Integrator to Resell New Enerday's 500 W Solid Oxide Propane Fuel Cell Generator Battery Recharger

Sirius Integrator becomes North America's reseller and integrator of New Enerday's 500 watt solid oxide propane fuel cell generator battery recharger. Later in 2013 the natural gas fuel cell model will be also available. Sirius Integrator has been reselling and integrating EFOY Pro direct methanol fuel cells in North America for over four years and has hundreds of deployments across over ten vertical markets.

3 May 2013

Innovative Solid Oxide Fuel Cell Device for the Developing World

In some parts of the developing world, people may live in homes without electricity or toilets or running water but yet they own cell phones. To charge those phones, they may have to walk for miles to reach a town charging station—and possibly even have to leave their phones overnight.

25 Apr 2013

Ballard Announces Shipment of 500th Methanol-Fuelled Telecom Backup Power System

Ballard Power Systems today announced shipment of its 500th methanol-fuelled telecom backup power system, since the Company expanded its product line in August 2012. Ballard is strongly positioned as the leader in the fuel cell sector for telecom backup power systems, offering both ElectraGen™-ME liquid fuelled methanol systems as well as ElectraGen™-H2 gaseous hydrogen fuelled systems.

12 Apr 2013