The new rules should help promote hydrogen fuel cell vehicles as well, regulators said.
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Some even employ proton exchange membranes that move charge around the way a hydrogen fuel cell does.
Elliott argues that buying credits from him is far cheaper for automakers than building hydrogen fuel cell prototypes.
And United Technologies, which makes Sikorsky helicopters, has flown a large model electric-helicopter powered by a hydrogen fuel cell.
The hype about hydrogen fuel cell cars has died down in the last year or so, but Honda hasn't noticed.
EVs, even hydrogen fuel cell vehicles, are a blast: you get sportiness along with a lifestyle statement about conserving resources.
The idea is to plug in electric and hydrogen fuel cell vehicles to the buildings to power up our vehicles.
And also hydrogen fuel cell vehicles where the hydrogen is produced by wind and solar power and also hydroelectric geothermal power.
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Hydrogen fuel cell cars need hydrogen and, even in California, there are only around 25 filling stations in the whole of the state.
In a hydrogen fuel cell car, hydrogen gets drawn through a catalytic membrane: an electron gets stripped from the hydrogen to power the car.
The only cars getting these credits now are hydrogen fuel cell prototypes that carmakers spend millions building, then offer to governments, universities and, rarely, individuals.
In other energy news, a team of researchers at Harvard has created an amazing hydrogen fuel cell that keeps running even after its fuel supply is exhausted.
The cost of hydrogen fuel cell cars also remains astronomical.
With Plug Power, he mentioned, Honda is testing a home fueling unit that can generate hydrogen from natural gas, an important step in development of hydrogen fuel cell vehicles.
When Rob Wilder, chief executive of WilderShares, which manages clean-energy indices, started a Web site for his hydrogen fuel cell research effort a few years ago, he was inundated with ideas.
Hyundai is set to announce plans to bring forward the mass production of hydrogen fuel cell cars, so we might see such vehicles on the road in just a couple of years.
Other Intelligent Energy world's firsts in recent years include the development of the world's first hydrogen fuel cell motorbike and supplying the fuel cell system to Boeing which powered the world's first manned fuel cell aircraft.
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Most of Toyota's energy is instead being funneled into its tried-and-true hybrids, with 21 due on the market by 2015, as well as plans to deliver the company's first hydrogen fuel cell car by the same year.
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With Plug Power (nasdaq: PLUG - news - people ), he mentioned, Honda is testing a home fueling unit that can generate hydrogen from natural gas, an important step in development of hydrogen fuel cell vehicles.
California regulators voted to mandate major automakers substantially increase the numbers of electric, plug-in hybrid and hydrogen fuel cell-powered models in their fleets in the coming years, eventually accounting for 15.4 percent of all vehicles sold in the state by 2025.
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Earlier this week, Honda produced the first commercial hydrogen fuel-cell vehicles, which will rely on natural gas-derived hydrogen for fuel and will be leased for use in Los Angeles.
It is powered by a hydrogen fuel-cell engine, which converts hydrogen gas into energy.
Gasification of coal offers the potential to turn dirty burning hydrocarbons into cleaner burning liquid fuels, such as synthetic natural gas, jet fuel and gasoline, as well as hydrogen for fuel cell use, a developing field.
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Mr. Marchionne held up hydrogen fuel-cell propulsion as an example of faddish technology that proved impractical.
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But there are skeptics who think that hydrogen fuel-cell supporters are being wildly unrealistic.
In the long-term, it could have a glittering future for it leads the world in pollution-free hydrogen fuel-cell cars.
And in buses on the U.S.' West Coast, we're testing hydrogen fuel-cell engines, designed to replace today's oil-burning engines.
So, a hydrogen fuel-cell car even running ... on hydrogen derived from natural gas cuts that carbon emission by 60%.
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