Hydrogen retro fit and semi retro fit diesel motors

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Jalopnik
Michigan Chosen to Host $400 Million Hydrogen Equipment Factory
Ryan Erik King
May 5, 2023, 9:40 am

Norwegian company Nel Hydrogen has announced that it will build a manufacturing facility for around $400 million in Michigan. The factory will be the first in the United States to produce electrolyzers, machines that use electricity to split water into hydrogen and oxygen. Nel cited the short distance to its partner General Motors as one of the factors behind the choice.

According to MLive.com, Michigan Governor Gretchen Whitmer met with Nel Hydrogen executives in January to advocate for the state's selection during an investment trip to Norway and Switzerland. The company had assessed several possible locations across the United States before Michigan was chosen. However, an exact location within the state has yet to be decided.

[Jim Blackwood]

This is not new, it is a correction to previous times.

The peasants walk, and worry about the next meal.

Only royalty and the rich have horses and carriages.

The grand, post war experiment is coming to an end, the royals and the rich are tired of rubbing elbows with us.

Happy coaching!
Buswarrior

A sign of the times. This is what the breakaway colonists were trying to avoid, and I'd say they did a pretty good job of it, coming up with an imperfect plan that took over 200 years to fail. But as always, Liberty must from time to time feast upon the blood of martyrs. Have faith, we'll get there. We are growing ever closer day by day. There is much to learn from the French Revolution.

Jim

[windtrader]

The grand, post war experiment is coming to an end, the royals and the rich are tired of rubbing elbows with us.

Happy coaching!
Buswarrior

Totally agree. History shows the way that when the rich can no longer keep the peasants at bay, the revolution ensues. It's hard to say this time what will occur as the advancements in technology are having a very different impact on society, careers, jobs, lifestyles, basically everything. It may be the rich who will capitalize the automating of the vast number of professions may be able to dole out basic services to the masses while keeping control. One thing is certain, those that have difficulty with change will be completely blindsided with the pace of change now underway.
@Jim Blackwood - exactly

[windtrader]

https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/2023/05/07/new-car-market-high-interest-rates/

[luvrbus]

I saw a new F150 Ford Shelby 2 door pickup the dealership was asking $140,000 for, what would you do with a pickup that expensive besides wash it and look at it and pay $5000 a year for insurance. At least is was a gasoline engine, there are a few of Rivian electric pickups here they paid $138,000.00 for

[Jim Blackwood]

I'm not buying any new cars. I've got a 21 year old Lincoln Blackwood pickup and a 52 year old MGB hot rod and I know for a fact that I can make them both last another 30 years. It's just not cost effective to do anything different.

Jim

[luvrbus]

None of it makes any sense now,I am happy with a 2 door pickup with hand roll up windows and a manual latch tail gate. A friend of mine has the dumbest outlook on new vehicles he says it only costs a $100.00 or so more in payments to go 1st class.The guy has $2880.00 a month house payments and $1700.00 a month car payments for 2 vehicles and wonders why he is broke all the time

[Glennman]

What is everyone going to do when the masses find out that people are burning up our water to make hydrogen? Hydrogen will be the new incandescent lightbulb or dishwasher.

[luvrbus]

What is everyone going to do when the masses find out that people are burning up our water to make hydrogen? Hydrogen will be the new incandescent lightbulb or dishwasher.

Probably won't be anywhere close as the water used in lithium mining they are doing now

[lvmci]

       hydrogen
Chevron believes in the value of delivering large-scale hydrogen solutions that support a growing, lower carbon world. Building on our existing assets, capabilities and customer base, we aim to create a profitable, large-scale, lower carbon hydrogen business. We're well positioned to participate across the value chain to supply industrial, power and heavy-duty transportation customers.

Chevron produces approximately 1 million tonnes per year of hydrogen through our traditional business and has experience in retail hydrogen going back to 2005. Chevron has been investing in hydrogen research and development for decades and holds more than 75 patents from early commercial ventures that are applicable to our future development plans.

We're exploring profitable opportunities for growth across the value chain, from upstream production through distribution into transportation, power generation and other industrial sectors. For example, at our refinery in Richmond, California, excess capacity in the new hydrogen units, combined with existing and future strategic partnerships, will be a foundation to support hydrogen demand growth.

Chevron is evaluating the use of hydrogen as an alternative for industries dependent on combustible fuels and assessing development of hydrogen production hubs. We are also leveraging our capabilities in carbon capture, utilization, and storage to unlock market opportunities for hydrogen solutions.

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50 hydrogen fueling stations

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Clean Technica
General Motors Seizes The Fuel Cell Moment With Green Hydrogen
Green hydrogen is needed to ice the zero emission fuel cell electric cake for GM's Silent Utility Rover Universal Superstructure vehicle platform.

ByTina Casey

General Motors has dropped hints about its interest in fuel cell electric vehicles over the years, but apparently that is just the tip of a much bigger iceberg. The company has made some interesting moves in recent months which suggest a more holistic approach to the green hydrogen economy of the future, regardless of what the skeptics may say.

GM Fishes For Fuel Cell Electric Vehicles...
GM's interest in hydrogen caught the CleanTechnica eye back in 2013, after the company introduced a demonstration fleet of 16 fuel cell electric vehicles for the US Army in Hawaii. The Army demonstration was built on GM's Project Driveway fleet of 119 vehicles, which launched in 2007 and racked up almost 3 million miles of driving in six years.

What caught our eye was a new hookup between GM and Honda. Honda was also hammering away at the challenge of introducing fuel cell vehicles to the US market. The collaboration launched in July of 2013, providing for the two companies to share the combined total of 1,200 fuel cell patents they compiled in the years leading up to 2012.

GM introduced its "SURUS" fuel cell electric vehicle platform in 2017, but it still didn't have a fuel cell EV in commercial production by 2020, though a preliminary agreement with Nikola Motor involving the Badger fuel cell electric pickup truck suggested that activity was about to pick up...

GM has not been idling around since then. As part of its collaboration with Honda, GM set its sights on developing fuel cells for heavy duty use, resulting in its Hydrotec suite of fuel cell systems.
...GM is also collaborating with Navistar on fuel cells for trucks, and with Wabtec on fuel cells for locomotives. GM has also been deploying Hydrotec modules as transportable charging stations for battery-electric vehicles.

The sticky wicket, of course, is the continued reliance on natural gas and other fossil resources to produce the hydrogen needed to run fuel cells. GM has a plan for that, too. Last November, GM enlisted Nel USA, a unit of Norway's Nel ASA, to help push down the cost of electrolyzer systems and pump up the green hydrogen supply chain. Electrolysis is used to "split" hydrogen gas from water, as a more sustainable alternative to the conventional steam reformation system used to produce hydrogen from natural gas.

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Hydrogen Fuel News

Toyota and VDL Groep to convert heavy-duty vehicles into hydrogen fuel cell trucks
Toyota and VDL Groep to convert heavy-duty vehicles into hydrogen fuel cell trucks
May 16, 2023 2 By ALICIA MOORE
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1 The companies have partnered to speed up the decarbonization of the road logistics sector.
1.1 Toyota sees significant potential in using H2 trucks to decarbonize its logistic routes.
1.2 The first of the hydrogen fuel cell trucks will be ready by summer 2023.
1.2.1 This new truck project is one among many H2 projects for Toyota.
1.3 Test Your Hydrogen Knowledge
The companies have partnered to speed up the decarbonization of the road logistics sector.
Toyota Motor Europe (TME) and Dutch VDL Groep have teamed up to covert VDL's existing heavy-duty trucks into hydrogen fuel cell trucks using Toyota's fuel cell modules, with a goal to accelerate decarbonizing the road logistics sector while also breaking into Europe's zero-emission heavy duty H2 trucks market.

Toyota sees significant potential in using H2 trucks to decarbonize its logistic routes.

Toyota Motor Europe seeks to achieve its full carbon-neutral strategy by 2040, and speeding up the decarbonization of the road logistics sector with hydrogen fuel cell trucks is an important factor in achieving this goal.

H2 trucks can be quickly refuelled – as fast as diesel – and hydrogen systems have a lower mass, which allows for a heavier payload. This can make them essential for transport with high utilization and key contributors in evolving sustainable infrastructures around key routes in Europe.

"We are excited to begin this project with VDL Groep, as it will allow us to further decarbonise the long-haul transport of our components, vehicles and service parts," said Leon Van Der Merwe, VP Supply Chain Toyota Motor Europe, in a recent TME news release.

The first of the hydrogen fuel cell trucks will be ready by summer 2023.
VDL Special Vehicles (a part of VDL Groep), a specialist in the field of battery electric and hydrogen solutions for on- and off-road vehicles, will build the first hydrogen truck by this summer. Following this first fuel cell truck, the companies will produce and assess more hydrogen fuel cell trucks on TME logistics routes in the fall.

The project will combine knowledge on how to deploy fuel cell trucks. This will further support the company's long-term goal of lowering Toyota's carbon footprint and decarbonizing logistics with vehicles other than passenger EVs.
"Heavy-duty trucks will remain an important pillar within our multimodal strategy, and the introduction of zero-emission trucks, equipped with our Toyota fuel cell modules, will have a strong impact on the overall carbon reduction of our logistics," added Van Der Merwe.
This new truck project is one among many H2 projects for Toyota.
hydrogen news ebookThe hydrogen fuel cell trucks project Toyota has in partnership with VDL Groep is only one of many H2 projects that the automaker has put into place with multiple partners. Other projects Toyota has in the works for the purpose of speeding up the transition toward a hydrogen economy include those for light commercial vehicles, buses, trains, and boats.

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Green Car Reports
Honda plans fuel-cell semi, ponders hydrogen for small mobility
Stephen Edelstein
STEPHEN EDELSTEIN
MAY 18, 2023

Honda recently announced two new hydrogen projects spanning both fuel cells and hydrogen-combustion engines.

The automaker on Monday confirmed plans for a fuel-cell heavy-duty truck co-developed with Isuzu, which once sold passenger cars in the U.S. but has now largely retreated into the commercial-vehicle sector. The two companies plan to demonstrate a prototype by next year, with a market launch following in 2027.

While not confirmed for the U.S., this project brings Honda into the ranks of automakers that have shifted to developing fuel-cell semis. Toyota and Hyundai both recently announced plans to broaden fuel-cell semi plans for the U.S., and General Motors in 2021 announced plans to build and support 2,000 fuel-cell semis in concert with truck maker Navistar.

Two days after the fuel-cell semi announcement, Honda also announced a joint effort with other Japanese companies to research hydrogen combustion engines. While fuel cells use gaseous hydrogen to generate electricity to power motors, these engines simply burn it in place of liquid gasoline or diesel.

Honda is working on hydrogen combustion with Suzuki, Kawasaki, and Yamaha for products in the "small mobility" sector...

Honda didn't say whether the new partnership, dubbed HySE, would focus specifically on motorcycles, but a company press release said one area of research would involve safeguarding fuel tanks in smaller vehicles. Engine performance and fueling infrastructure will be looked at as well, according to Honda.

As with fuel-cell semi trucks, Honda is following in the tire tracks of rival Toyota. The larger automaker has been using and developing an internal-combustion hydrogen engine for motorsports, and has gone so far as to say that it sees a hydrogen-combustion Corolla Cross as an EV alternative.

Hydrogen combustion has some potential pluses, including the ability to preserve existing internal-combustion car designs, while avoiding the need for the expensive materials of current fuel-cell stacks...

Fuel cells, in contrast, have no "tailpipe" emissions, and analysis indicates their carbon footprint can be made suitably low if hydrogen is produced from green sources. Sourcing of hydrogen will also be a factor in calculating overall emissions from hydrogen combustion engines—with tailpipes then factored in on top of that.

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Hydrogen news
Frankfurt to boost presence of hydrogen buses in its city
May 22, 2023 0 By ERIN KILGORE
The German metropolis has ordered more H2 buses from Solaris.
The public transport management company of Frankfurt am Main, In-der-City-Bus GmbH (ICB), has ordered 10 hydrogen buses from European bus and trolleybus manufacturer, Solaris Bus & Coach, with the new order of buses to be added to the ICB fleet in Q1 2024.

The city already has 13 Urbino hydrogen vehicles on its roads.
Frankfurt am Main is one of Germany's largest cities, with ICB operating three bus bundles in the city, accounting for over 50% of Frankfurt's bus services. ICB operates 34 routes, year-round, with a 228-vehicle fleet. Since 2022, 13 of Solaris' Urbino 12 hydrogen buses have been a part of the fleet.
Recently, In-der-City-Bus GmbH settled tender for the purchase of another 10 H2 buses from Solaris, opting for the same hydrogen-powered model as their previous Urbino 12 hydrogen order. The newly contracted H2 buses ...