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It really is too bad that the governments in the so-called civilized world are so hung up in short term solutions; money here and now - and future? What is that? It is in the future so never mind that. That way we are never going anywhere - except backwards. Electric cars are great. Brushless motors last forever (have a 10-year-old blender that is still mixing whatever I put in it like when it was new) and all electric motors need to power a car is electricity. Batteries is a short time solution. Fuel cells can be recircled completely not like batteries, where most of the material will be landfill. Raw material for H2 is available abundant and return to its former state when it has been used. No self-discharge, can be stored and wherever electricity and water are available, H2 can be made. Many places where it will be expensive to build and maintain electric wires for trains hydrogen is a solution starting to be used in other countries now.

Waste-to-hydrogen aviation project collaboration announced by Raven SR By ANGIE BERGENSON - https://www.hydrogenfuelnews.com/author/angie-2-2-2-2-2/ Raven SR has teamed up with H3 Dynamics for a decarbonization project. Renewable fuels company, Raven SR, has announced a memorandum of understanding (MoU) with H3 Dynamics, a developer of hydrogen aviation technologies, to partner on waste-to-hydrogen energy systems to support the adoption of H2 at airports and to help decarbonize airport operations. Raven SR and H2 Dynamic want to build green H2 aviation hubs for airports around the world. The two companies are combining their expertise and technologies to bring their global waste-to-hydrogen aviation project to fruition. Raven SR technology converts organic waste and landfill gas to hydrogen and Fischer-Tropsch synthetic fuels. The hydrogen production technology that is used is highly efficient and does not rely on fresh water as a feedstock. Instead, it uses the Raven SR’s Steam/CO2 reformation process, which can deliver fuel with low to negative carbon intensity. The technology has a modular design, providing a scalable way to locally produce renewable hydrogen and synthetic liquid fuels from local waste. Moreover, in addition to generating much of its own power onsite, lowering reliance on the local power grid, it is also capable of being independent of the grid. As for H3 Dynamics, the company intends to work with its technology and manufacturing partners to build hydrogen power systems componentry to meet the necessary certification requirements mandatory within an airport and aircraft environment. Taras ****ewycz, CEO of H3 Dynamics, said, “H3 Dynamics will deploy decarbonization use cases that have a more immediate impact, so that the infrastructure built today can also welcome hydrogen aircraft in the future.”

NewHydrogen green hydrogen generator prototype unveiled By BRET WILLIAMS https://www.hydrogenfuelnews.com/author/bret-2-2-2/ The company plans to use this prototype for the incorporation of next generation innovations. NewHydrogen recently unveiled a new green hydrogen generator prototype that it says features a “novel low-cost and high-performance catalyst technology.” The company develops next generation technology for the production of low-cost renewable H2. The green hydrogen generator protype will act as a platform the company will use for the incorporation of further cutting edge electrolyzer component innovations as NewHydrogen develops them. NewHydrogen is currently using a systematic acidic water splitting test involving commercial platinum and iridium-based catalysts in order to establish performance benchmarks for current commercial catalysts and to form a standard testing protocol. This is to prepare for the fuel cell performance evaluation its technology will be required to undergo. Larger catalyst quantities that have consistency across the characteristics of their materials will be needed for the electrolyzer platform prototype’s full operation. Because of this, NewHydrogen has boosted the synthesis of its own noble catalysts ahead of the performance evaluations. The consistencies include electrolytic cell activity transition, hydrogen production rate, long-term stability, specific energy consumption and the new catalyst overall cost estimations. One of the goals of the green hydrogen generator is to more affordably produce renewable H2. As the use of renewable H2 is expected to take off in coming years, with various industries rolling out their low-carbon and zero-carbon strategies in the face of the climate crisis, one of the largest challenges to the widespread adoption of this clean fuel is cost. That said, as the price tag associated with fossil fuels such as oil and natural gas continue to climb, and as the price of renewable H2 continues falling, automakers, industries and governments are seeing hydrogen as a fuel with rising potential. With technologies such as the prototype from NewHydrogen helping to accelerate the rate at which renewable H2 becomes affordable, the viability and affordability of using this fuel continues to improve. “We are very pleased with the progress being made in our green hydrogen program at UCLA,” said NewHydrogen CEO Dr. David Lee in a news release about the green hydrogen generator prototype. “We look forward to seeing more exciting achievements as we methodically expand our technology focus beyond catalysts in 2023.” Second-gen Toyota Mirai FCEV showcased at Auto Expo in India The hydrogen vehicle is one of the most prominent models showcased at this year’s event. The Toyota Mirai was recently showcased at Auto Expo 2023, from January 13 – 18 at India Expo Mart, Greater Noida UP, India, and is the country’s first hydrogen fuel cell electric vehicle (FCEV). Toyota is assessing the Mirai for India. The Auto Expo is not the first time that the Mirai hydrogen fuel cell vehicle has been brought to India, however. Back in March 2022, the automaker began a pilot project with the hydrogen car to evaluate it for the Indian market. Ever since, the Toyota Mirai has been part of a study to analyze the business case for fuel cell electric vehicles in India. This study began after the Japanese automaker signed a memorandum of understanding (MoU) with the International Centre for Automotive Technology (iCAT). The Toyota Mirai is liked by India’s Union Road and Transport Minister for its eco-friendliness. Though not the only environmentally-friendly car that Toyota has showcased at the 16th annual Auto Expo, The Mirai’s clean powertrain technology, in particular, is reportedly well liked by Union Road and Transport Minister Nitin Gadkari, who has previously used the car.

China will have approximately 50,000 hydrogen fuel cell vehicles on the road by 2025, according to a plan from the National Development and Reform Commission and the National Energy Administration (NAE). The country’s annual hydrogen production from renewable energy will increase from 100,000 to 200,000 tons. That being said, though China currently has about 270 hydrogen refueling stations across the nation – the most of any other country in the world – this is only a small network of stations when compared to the nation’s vast number of charging facilities for electric vehicles. As for the new hydrogen passenger train, according to Chinese media, the train officially launched in Chengdu, Southwest China’s Sichuan Province on January 18th, 2023. The train has a 373 miles (600 km) battery life and is capable of reaching 100 mph (160 km/h). As a result, it is the world’s fastest hydrogen-powered train to date. It can run 311 miles (500 km) back and forth each day, which can lower carbon dioxide emissions by over 10,000 kg per year. Another benefit of the H2 train is that it can also be used in existing non-electrified line sections, and this can be done without having to heavily invest in infrastructure and maintenance costs, which is a common challenge when transitioning existing transit to electrification. It is also the fastest hydrogen train to date. The zero-emission hydrogen passenger train has the same key core technology of the Fuxing bullet train. However, instead of the original catenary power supply, the H2 urban train has a hydrogen fuel cell and supercapacitor. Energy is produced in the hydrogen fuel cell by the electrochemical reaction of hydrogen and oxygen, with the only by-product of this reaction being water. This reaction process is not only clean, but also stable and produces very little noise. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j-S-aNaDXV4 Somebody in this forum believe that if something is not happening in front of their own nose, then it does not happen, will never happen, is impossible to happen.

215-45x17 625,3mm 523,8577346 rev/km 225-50x16 631,4mm 518,7967081 rev/km 205-60x15 627.0mm 522,4373867 rev/km In automatic mode the wipers will move when water is detected. You cannot change when water come to the sensor. Our car never gets above 40km/h before engine start.

Many things make sense and do not happen. Many things make no sense and happening all the time. If something make sense depend on from which side it is viewed. War make sense for weapons manufactories that make much money and have great lobby machines influencing governments. Some think war makes no sense. No lobby machine, no money, no luck. Stop polluting the world make sense, most will say it is good, but few are willing to do anything to change habits, and as long as there is money to be made from polluting there will be no government going against those polluting and making more money. Does it make sense to spend fortunes on cars in formula one just to entertain? Yes, if it is profitable. Does it pollute? Absolutely. Almost same answer to paying athletes enormous sums, for entertaining us. So, if something make enough sense to be actually done anything about depend only on the simple question: Is it profitable? Anything else, such as if it is healthy, or good for living creatures is not taken into consideration.

What is going to happen when suddenly very many battery-powered cars will need new power because the batteries no longer have any reasonable range? Will countries in our part of the world continue supporting China with money for batteries as that is where most come from?

Valves and injection system is what most combustion engines will have to replace and that is not really that much. Car companies still have all the knowledge and production equipment so changing diesel and gasoline engines to run on hydrogen is not much different from changing same engines to run on liquid natural gas and the cars running on that are lasting as long as the conventional combustion engines. When batteries are getting expensive (because the need for new is growing) and needs to be changed every 8 - 10 years or so in order to have reasonable range, some countries may not like to enrich China from where most car batteries come. Had a Betamax, but could not get new cassettes (also a Revox with gigantic tape wheels). Anyway, memory chips have made tape no longer needed. Hydrogen cars: Right now, maybe best is the Mirai. 1 K Km on one filling lasting 3 - 5 minutes depending on pressure. When hydrogen come here will be looking for something maybe even better than the Mirai.

If BP does so here too, I will go back to BP; this little island only needs 1 hydrogen fuelling station. Now Shell Super V Power etc. is 1.479€ and having a Shell card I get 10 cents cheaper each L.

You may have charging station home, may not need to drive longer than the capacity of the battery in your car, have funds enough to buy a new when battery is no longer up to your standards, have time enough to wait for a charging place should you drive longer distance than the battery in your car is able to without charging. Lucky you. I believe you are among a very little percentage of world's population. And maybe do not care the least about the suckers that have less than you.

I believe that an extra battery for the camera could solve the problem. Charge it from the 12V battery in the car, protect the car’s 12V battery so it only charges your camara-battery when engine is running. Somebody who know how much charging capacity is in the car can tell if it is right or abuse of the car's electric system.

Talking about a possible perfect power source pollutes less than destroying the world digging for materials to make power plants that needs to be replaced every not that many years, that are functioning only for the people having own charging points home, and that cost more to recycle in pollution and money than the value of the materials being brought back from that. On top of that most of the car batteries are made in, and help funding the gentle political system in China.

Reviews can be bought. Only way to know if something is good is to try it. I have Oakley sports glasses 15 years old as good as new and have 2 pair of 3-year-old Oakley photochromic sunglasses that are losing the film on them so they are no longer any use, and 1 of the pair they do not make replacement lenses for. Oakley is overrated and overly expensive. Polarised lenses are great for fishing as you can see down in the water, but not smart for driving if there is water on the road as you will be able to see through the water as if it is not there.

I use the CD/DVD player to store around 20 hours of m4a files on in 512kbps (close in sound to most people to the quality of a CD music disc) far better than 320kbps but of course take up more space as well. If you use a DVD with MP3 files on, I suppose you can have more than 30 hours of music on one 4.7Gb DVD. Do not know what Bluetooth version is in your car, but the very old version in the CT transfer music no better to the excellent ML audio Lexus is giving us in the cars than medium quality MP3, and why they do not have software that can read lossless flac files is not for me to understand. m4a files on disc is not as good quality as line-in from a music player, but having wires laying around is not really funny, so I take the next best solution I can find using the DVD player. Picture of artist, name of tune, artist, album is displayed on the screen just perfect.

For whoever is interested there is hydrogen news in the links below. If you do not like to go through all the accept or reject cookies, I recommend to use the browser: https://brave.com/download/ https://www.hydrogenfuelnews.com/green-hydrogen-data-center-ecl/8557028/?awt_a=1jpsU&awt_l=IFzTR&awt_m=fwn3IOLYxe5DlsU BP Hydrogen: https://www.hydrogenfuelnews.com/hydrogen-hub-bp-germany/8557015/?awt_a=1jpsU&awt_l=IFzTR&awt_m=fwn3IOLYxe5DlsU https://www.hydrogenfuelnews.com/hydrogen-pipeline-h2med/8557006/?awt_a=1jpsU&awt_l=IFzTR&awt_m=fwn3IOLYxe5DlsU https://www.hydrogenfuelnews.com/fuel-cell-truck-ael/8557018/?awt_a=1jpsU&awt_l=IFzTR&awt_m=fwn3IOLYxe5DlsU

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Probably right so, but I think that hydrogen news is interested in as many as possible are being informed, that I doubt they will do anything but praise that the news they publish will be spread around.

I like the optimistic way you think. I believe they will make gasoline price impossible to pay and I do not feel like robbing a bank. Hopefully some of the hydrogen projects are going so good for trucks and delivery van companies that the politicians can be forced to change their minds; somebody will have to change them for them as thinking is not needed to become politician.

No problem. Telegraph is not interested in informing people, only selling news. OK. Maybe they do not sell paper editions anymore. The hydrogen news I copy from news site, so I do not risk that other reading here cannot see them. Not really much work.

The Daily Mail was interesting read. The Telegraph not. Want me to register - not interested. Wonder how many EV fans there will be in 4 - 5 years except from those having charging stations home, own solar cells and only using the cars for short local trips. Cars will then be for the super-rich, the rest of us can stand in line waiting for a bus.

Comfortable ride, long lasting, low noise, fuel consumption B, wet brake efficiency A: Continental UltraContact. So far, we have been keeping same as on from new, but next month have ordered Continental. Have had that on almost all cars so far and only kept the brand Lexus put on from new but now is time to go back to Continental.

GP JOULE ordering over 100 Nikola hydrogen trucks. The fuel cell vehicles for this order will be manufactured in Germany by Nikola and Iveco Group. The hydrogen trucks being ordered is the European 6×2 variant of the vehicle. It will be manufactured by Nikola and Iveco Group in Ulm, Germany. The first thirty vehicles for this order are expected to be delivered to GP JOULE in 2024. The remaining 70 vehicles to complete the order will be delivered in 2025. The deal provides GP JOULE with the possibility of acquiring the vehicles through GATE, the Green & Advanced Transport Ecosystem, which is the all-inclusive electric truck rental model at Iveco Group. The essential maintenance and service functions for the hydrogen trucks will be provided by Iveco. GP JOULE will be making the 100 fuel cell vehicles available to its transport and logistics customers. The order remains a Letter of Intent. It is still subject to the successful application by GP JOULE for KsNI funding. KsNI is the program in Germany developed to support the acquisition of cleaner vehicles as a part of an overall decarbonization goal. Nederst på formuMoreover, GP JOULE and Iveco Group agreed that starting in 2026, they will market additional fuel cell vehicles to European customers. GP JOULE will be providing its customers will 100 percent green H2 at their network of H2 refueling stations. “The order from GP JOULE will be an example of how the Nikola Tre FCEV can further support commercial customers in Germany in their transition towards zero-emissions several years ahead of other OEMs, which helps to achieve the goal of decarbonizing the transportation sector,” said Nikola Corporation President and CEO Michael Lohscheller. “100% renewable energy for all, this is what drives us. Together with Nikola and IVECO, we offer our customers all the components for climate-neutral heavy-duty transport from a single source: from the production and purchase of green hydrogen to the hydrogen filling stations to the fuel cell trucks and service that meet their needs,” added GP JOULE HYDROGEN managing director Andre Steinau. “This is the easy entry into emission-free freight transport.”

For a pro thief it means nothing if you have a catlock or not. Luckily the cat in a CT is not the biggest and most expensive so maybe they are not that interesting.

They are what they are. And they believe what they have been told to believe. Hopefully they will be told something else by people with influence when they find out that the problems with batteries are not just a little bit bigger than expected. Politicians will listen if enough voters will not vote for them. Then their advisers will tell them why as they are just politicians and to become a politician it is not needed to be able to think, that is why they have people paid to tell them what to do.

Is that not what all governments do? Some governments are having more luck hiding it. As long as the ruling class (politicians and some other well-off groups) are allowed to do what they like, they wish that the rest of us are voting for them, working for them and very important: not complaining.