Green Options » hydrogen highway http://greenoptions.com/tag/hydrogen-highway Posts tagged 'hydrogen highway' Tue, 25 Aug 2009 09:36:42 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.5.1 en London to Launch UK’s First ‘Hydrogen Highway’ http://gas2.org/2009/08/25/london-to-launch-uks-first-hydrogen-highway/ http://gas2.org/2009/08/25/london-to-launch-uks-first-hydrogen-highway/#comments Tue, 25 Aug 2009 09:36:42 +0000 Andrew Williams http://gas2.org/2009/08/25/london-to-launch-uks-first-hydrogen-highway/

London Mayor Boris Johnson has announced plans to create Britain’s first “hydrogen highway” by building a network of hydrogen filling stations throughout the capital.

As part of the scheme, a pilot fleet of around 150 hydrogen cars, five buses and 20 black taxis will be assembled in the run-up to the 2012 London Olympics.

The flamboyant mayor has gone on record as saying that he wants Britain to become a world leader in fuel cell technology and his team have made the ambitious claim that, within twenty years, up to one in three of the 31m cars in Britain could be fuelled by hydrogen.

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]]> http://gas2.org/2009/08/25/london-to-launch-uks-first-hydrogen-highway/feed/ “Hydrogen Cities” To Build An Economy Of Hydrogen Cars Over The Next Decade http://sustainablog.org/2008/10/06/hydrogen-cities-to-build-an-economy-of-hydrogen-cars-over-the-next-decade/ http://sustainablog.org/2008/10/06/hydrogen-cities-to-build-an-economy-of-hydrogen-cars-over-the-next-decade/#comments Tue, 07 Oct 2008 05:21:08 +0000 Reenita Malhotra http://sustainablog.org/2008/10/06/hydrogen-cities-to-build-an-economy-of-hydrogen-cars-over-the-next-decade/ Greg Frenette, a lead engineer at Ford Motors, said last week that it may take at least 20 years before hydrogen-powered cars become widely available because obtaining the fuel is so costly and difficult. However the latest news from the Reuters Global Environment Summit is that these zero emissions cars could become a reality in California very soon. The state plans to build out “Hydrogen Cities” to support the hydrogen car industry.

How Does the Hydrogen Car Work?

Fuel cells create electricity in a chemical process that combines hydrogen and oxygen, emitting water vapor as a by-product. instead of greenhouse gases such as carbon dioxide. Since the conversion of the fuel to energy takes place via an electrochemical process rather than combustion, the process is clean and highly efficient. The hydrogen car reduces greenhouse gas emissions while also reducing dependency on crude oil.

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