Bits : G.M.âs Fuel-Cell Car Makes a Statement
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General Motors is using C.E.S. to promote prototype vehicles that lack conventional elements -- like gasoline or a driver.
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General Motors' latest hydrogen car prototype is a car unlike any other and a glimpse of a possible, very different, automotive future.
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General Motors will launch a fleet of more than 100 hydrogen fuel-cell powered sports utility vehicles in the US, Europe and Asia in the fall of 2007, the automaker said.
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Methanol-powered processing CES Toshiba didn't make much of a fuss about its UMPC, claiming the smooth-cornered handheld PC was intended to demo technologies the company develops to potential manufacturer customers. One such technology: fuel cells.â¦
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The energy bill President Bush signed last week mandating tougher fuel-economy standards sent a simple message to automakers: lighten up.
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(InfoWorld) - MTI MicroFuel Cells has demonstrated a prototype direct methanol fuel cell (DMFC) to the U.S. military, the company's president said Monday. The Albany, New York, company demonstrated its 30-watt fuel cell to officials from the Air Force Research Laboratory Information Directorate, it said. MTI received an order for fuel cell evaluation kits earlier this year for use in satellite communication terminals. "They loved it," said Peng Lim, president and chief executive officer of MTI MicroFuel Cells, in an interview in Tokyo on Monday. Lim is in Tokyo to talk with Japanese companies regarding potential use of his fuel cells in their devices. "We partnered with The Air Force Research Lab and U.S. Army. We will be producing field testing units towards the end of the year for the testing to begin next year. Assuming the tests are successful the next stage is producing the product," he said. The military deal is one of two that the company has signed as it continues development of the fuel cells. The company's other deal is with Samsung Electronics and covers use of DMFCs in cell phones. MTI is on track to deliver a prototype to Samsung by the end of this month, he said. MTI's fuel cells use undiluted methanol as their fuel while DMFCs from rival companies require the methanol be diluted with water. This translates into a higher power output from the cell, said Lim. Compared to current lithium-ion rechargeable batteries the DMFCs also have a higher power density, so can deliver more power for the same size device. That's an advantage for the military and other users. "Nowadays they have a so-called 24-hour mission so they go out and come back within a day, but going forward the U.S. military wants to have a 72-hour mission. Typically for a 72-hour mission the soldier would carry between 24 and 36 pounds of batteries. With our technology we cut the weight by a third and the size by half," said Lim. Commercialization depends on success of the upcoming field tests and also the company's partners, said Lim. Once testing is successfully completed the fuel cells will be ready for first-stage commercialization but the speed with which they come to market depends on the eagerness of the customer to launch DMFC as a technology. However, with successful testing and a quick launch the DMFCs could be appearing on store shelves in 2008. MTI has also set up a deal with Procter & Gamble's Gillette division, which produces the Duracell battery, for the distribution of methanol fuel cartridges to stores.
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Dr Joseph Hartvigsen (L) of Ceramatex, Inc, holds a fuel cell during a news conference Nov. 29 at Ceramatex Advanced Materials &amp; Electrochemical Technologies in Salt Lake City.
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Scientists have made a world-first discovery which is a step towards using environmentally-friendly hydrogen to power our cars. A team from the Universities of Newcastle upon Tyne and Liverpool in the UK, who
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Blog: Add carbon dioxide, water, heat. Serves cars.
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Google.org incites others to share its love for plug-in hybrid vehicles and other cleaner forms.
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Is FuelCell Energy charging ahead, or out of juice?
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The CEO of Fiat (FIA.MI: Quote, Profile, Research) believes that exercising an option forcing General Motors (GM.N: Quote, Profile, Research) to buy its loss-mired car unit would probably result in more work for the operation
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General Motors Corp. on Wednesday became the first automaker to commit to make a rechargeable hybrid vehicle, a move intended to distance the world's largest automaker from its harmful reputation for producing gas-guzzling trucks.
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I'm strange.  I love to measure things.  I've used a GPS receiver to find the optimal parking situation at work, I measure the costs of meetings (based on estimates of what I think people make), and I've even measured the effects of different driving techniques and the resulting impact on fuel economy.  Yes, I'm strange.
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G.M.âs international strategy isnât about focusing on a single brand. Instead, it wants its consumers to be able to choose from a fleet of them.
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Plans to make cars greener by using fuel made from crops and animal fat are in doubt
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Google and Pacific Gas & Electric have unveiled their vision of a future in which cars and trucks are partly powered by the countryâs electric grids, and vice versa.