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Neah Power Systems has completed phase two of its contract with Denmark's Danfoss. In this latest phase Danfoss demonstrated miniaturized pump and valve components for Neah's forthcoming fuel cell systems [...]

German automotive supplier Webasto AG recently announced it has entered into an agreement with heating technology manufacturers Vaillant Group to jointly develop fuel cells for use in both cars and [...]

Ballard Power Systems recently announced it will jointly develop an advanced prototype proton exchange membrane (PEM) fuel cell system with Plug Power, Inc. under a $2-million program awarded by the [...]

Samsung DTI (Yoon Seok-yeol, Executive Vice President, Samsung Life Insurance Building, 150, 2-Ka, Taepyung-Ro, Chung-Ku, Seoul, Korea; Tel: 82 2 727 3100; www.samsunsdi.co.kr) has developed a butane-fueled micro fuel cell [...]

Du Pont Fuel Cells Delivers New DMFC Technology. Du Pont Fuel Cells (Ellen G. Pressley, Chestnut Run Plaza, 4417 Lancaster Pike, Wilmington, DE 19805; Tel: 919.248-5598; email: ellen.g.pressley@usa.dupont.com; www.fuelcells.dupont.com) is [...]

A technology attains ubiquity when its utility overcomes the inertia of initial high prices or is so compelling. It worked for the personal computer, televisions, the iPod, radios, and a [...]

Sanyo Electric (Yokinori Kuwano, President, 5-5, Keihan-Hondori, 2-chome, Moriguchi City, Osaka 570-8677, Japan; www.global- sanyo.com) and Japan IBM (Hiromi Ishida, Communications, IBM Japan; Tel: 81-3-5563-4307; email: hiromii@jp.ibm.com) have developed a [...]

Nanosys, Inc. (Calvin Chow, CEO, 2615 Hanover Street, Palo Alto, CA 94304; Tel: 650/331-2100; www.nanosysinc.com) and Sharp Corporation (Kenji Ohta, Corporate Executive Director and Chief Research and Development Officer, 22-22 [...]

Since alkaline fuel cells were first used by NASA, several new types of fuel cells have been developed, all of which have different pros and cons. The NASA alkaline cells, [...]

The Japanese Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry (METI, 1-3-1 Kasumigaseki, Chiyoda-ku, Tokyo 100-8901, Japan; Tel: 81 3 3601 1619; www.meti.go.jp) announced a 7% increase in funding for fuel cell [...]

The Australian Centre for Energy and Greenhouse Technologies (Han de Zwart, 50 Northways Road, Churchill, Victoria 3842, Australia; Tel: 03 5122 1941; email: cegt@cegt.com.au) announced that it will form and [...]

Nuvera Fuel Cells, Inc. and East Penn Manufacturing Company, Inc. recently announced plans to jointly develop a hybrid battery/fuel cell electric engine to power lift trucks and other off-road industrial [...]

Squeezing more watts of electric power from smaller and smaller volumes of fuel cell materials is one of the 'holy grails' of fuel cell developers. Combined with advances in mass [...]

Toro is evaluating Nuvera Fuel Cells (20 Acorn Park, Cambridge, MA 02140; Tel: 617/245-7500) H2e products for its potential use in professional grounds and turf care equipment. The H2e is [...]

Thomas Swan & Company (Crookhall, Consett, County Durham DH8 7ND, UK; Tel: +44 (0) 1207 505131, Fax: +44 (0) 1207 590467, Email:enquiries@thomas-swan.co.uk or Swan Chemical Inc. (136 Ridge Road, 2nd [...]

Toshiba Corp. (1-1, Shibaura 1-chome, Minato-ku, Tokyo 105-8001, Japan Tel +81-3-3457-4511) and United Technologies Corp. subsidiary UTC Fuel Cells announced a rearrangement of their fuel cell businesses. Under the agreement, [...]

Governor Bob Taft recently dedicated one of the nations first utility-scale fuel cell power plants located at a substation in Westerville, Ohio. The AMP-Ohio/City of Westerville Commercial Fuel Cell Demonstration [...]

INI Power Systems (136 Quade Dr., Cary NC 27513; Tel: 919-677- 7316, or 53 Water St., Norwalk Ct 06854; Tel@0203-838-5166, info@inipower.com) reports that two recent funding events will support the [...]

The Dow Chemical Co. (2030 Dow Center, Midland, Michigan 48674, Tel:989/ 636-1000) and General Motors Corp. have begun the second phase of their joint project to prove the viability of [...]

Pacific Fuel Cell Corp. (Tustin, CA; Tel: 714/564-1693) acquired certain rights to a methanol resistant cathodic catalyst for direct methanol fuel cells and has filed a provisional patent in the [...]

Recent advances in lightweight, high power density solid oxide fuel cell (SOFC) stacks, coupled with the development of compact balance-of-plant equipment have extended the practical lower bounds for SOFC generators [...]

CERAMIC Fuel Cells (CFCL, 170 Browns Road, Noble Park, Victoria 3174 Australia, Tel: 61-3-9554 2300 Fax: 61-3-9790 5600) has signed an agreement with international ceramics consultancy, Ceram, to design a [...]

Agence France-Presse (AFP) recently reported that the Michelin group and the Paul Scherrer Institute (PSI) introduced during the Challenge Bibendum competition in Shanghai, China earlier this month a prototype electric [...]

Nisshinbo Industries, Inc. ( 2-31-11,Ningyo-cho,Nihonbashi, Chuo- ku,Tokyo 103-8650, Japan; Tel:+81-3-5695-8833, email : www- info@nisshinbo.co.jp) has developed a process for producing a fuel cell separator in which dry granules of a [...]

A new glass-ceramic seal being developed by researchers at the University of Missouri-Rolla (UMR, 1870 Miner Circle, Rolla, MO 65409-0220; Tel: 573-341-4111) is a stronger seal for solid oxide fuel [...]

Nanomaterials Discovery Corp. (NDC, 365 North Ninth St., Annex, Suite 102, Laramie, WY 82072; Tel: 307/721-2342, email: nanoaccess@nanomaterialsdiscovery.com) will receive $2.5 million from the Department of Defense in FY2005 to [...]

At the Caravan Salon Dusseldorf, taking place from August 27 to September 5, 2004, SFC Smart Fuel Cell AG ( Eugen-Snger-Ring 4,D- 85649 Brunnthal-Nord; Tel. 089-607 454-60, email negwer@smartfuelcell.de) will [...]

A breakthrough in thin film solid oxide fuel cells (SOFCs) that could allow a fuel cell stack the size of a two soft drink cans to power a house is [...]

Nuvera Fuel Cells, Inc. (20 Acorn Park, Cambridge, Massachusetts 02140; Tel: 617/245-7500) and Takagi Industrial Co., Ltd., have agreed to jointly develop commercial fuel cell-based cogeneration systems for the Japanese [...]

Nokia (Keilalahdentie 4, FIN-00045 Espoo, Finland; Tel: +358-7180- 08000) demonstrated a Bluetooth headset powered by fuel cells at a technology futures briefing in Helsinki last month. Tero Ojanpera, head of [...]

Hydrogenics Corp. (5985 McLaughlin Rd., Mississauga, ON L5R 1B8 Canada; Tel: 905/361-3660) has sold and delivered a HyPM 10 power module to Quantum Fuel System Technologies Worldwide, Inc., in support [...]

The 'HydroGen3'a prototype fuel cell car based on the GM Opel Zafira completed a 10,000 km European marathon. The journey began on May 3, 2004 in Hammerfest, Norway, and finished [...]

Renault and Nuvera Fuel Cells, Inc., (20 Acorn Park, Cambridge, MA 02140; Tel: 617/245-7500) have signed an agreement to strengthen their partnership and continue their collaborative efforts in fuel cell [...]

At the beginning of 2003 Air Liquide was selected by STMicroelectronics in the framework of a project partially financed by the European Union, PVFC-Sys (photovoltaic fuel cell system) to supply [...]

P 21 GmbH Power for the 21st Century (Eugen-Snger-Ring 6, Brunnthal 85649 Germany Tel: +49 (0) 89 607 - 45 721, email: guenter.siegmund@p-21.de) is currently perfecting a pilot production line. [...]

A new type of polymer electrolyte membrane (PEM) is being developed by researchers at Sandia National Laboratories (1001 University Blvd., SE, Suite 100, Albuquerque, NM 87106; Tel: 505/844-6192, email: cjcorne@sandia.gov). [...]

Fuel cell pioneer P21 GmbH Power for the 21st Century (Eugen- Saenger-Ring 6D-81549 Munich; Tel: +49 (0) 89.607.45720) reports the conclusion of its first round of institutional financing in the [...]

Case Western Reserve University (10900 Euclid Ave., Cleveland, OH 44106; Tel: 216/368-2000) is working with The Ashlawn Group, LLC, of Alexandria, Va., to develop fuel cells to double the shelf [...]

CellTech Power, Inc. (131 Flanders Rd., Westborough, MA 01581; Tel: 508/898-2223, Fax: 508-898-2690,) president, Thomas Tao, has developed a planar carbon-oxygen fuel cell that could produce as much as 5 [...]

Intel Corp. (2200 Mission College Blvd., Santa Clara, CA 95052- 8119; Tel: 408/765-8080) is proposing a concept for a hybrid battery/fuel cell that could drive a thin-and-light notebook computer for [...]

Fujitsu Laboratories Ltd. ( 4-1-1 Kamikodanaka, Nakahara- ku,Kawasaki, Kanagawa 211-8588 Japan; Tel: +81 (0) 44-754-2613, email: organic_mat@ml.labs.fujitsu.com) has announced the development of a new fuel-cell material technology that enables the [...]

* Sustainable Development Technology Canada (SDTC), an independent agency that administers Canadian Government funding for climate change solutions, has approved Hydrogenics Corporations proposal for fuel cell demonstration. Hydrogenics will lead [...]

Integrated Fuel Cell Technologies (IFCT, 19 Crosby Drive, Suite 135, Bedford, MA 01730-1401; Tel: 781-271-1343) is undertaking the technical development of a hydrogen-powered fuel cell using well- established, high-volume semiconductor [...]

Industry officials in Japan recently reported that last week's press preview for the 37th Tokyo Motor Show reaffirmed the automobile industry's commitment to developing hybrid electric vehicles (HEVs) and fuel [...]