Texaco Energy Systems Inc. (TESI, White Plains, NY) and Energy Conversion Devices Inc. (ECD, Troy, MI) announced the formation of Texaco Ovonic Fuel Cell Company LLC, a fifty-fifty joint venture to further develop and advance the commercialization of the Ovonic Regenerative Fuel Cell.Under the terms of the joint venture agreement, ECD will provide proprietary technology […]
Electric Fuel Corporation (Iselin, NJ) announced that the German government has issued a contract to undertake a cooperative all-electric hybrid vehicle development and demonstration program in Germany. A consortium comprised of Electric Fuel's Electrical Vehicle Division, and several major German industrial firms and academic institutions will implement the program, announced in January 2000. The four-year […]
Ballard Power Systems (Burnaby, BC) held a ceremony recently in which they accepted a prototype battery-powered car from Ford Motor Co. (Detroit, MI). The ceremony was significant because the Ford design will potentially rival cars powered by Ballard's electricity-producing fuel cells. Ford officials, however, believe that different technologies for powering environmentally-friendly electric cars will co-exist […]
Northern Power Systems (NPS, Waitsfield, VT) has been awarded a contract from the University of Mississippi and the University of Alaska's Geophysical Institute (UA-GI) for a telepower photovoltaic/fossil-fuel hybrid-power system for deployment on the continent of Antarctica. This system will provide year-round power for the UA-GI's infrasonic monitoring station at a location called Windless Bight.The […]
International Fuel Cells (IFC), a unit of United Technologies Corp. (UTC, South Windsor, CT) announced plans to form a joint venture to develop and market stationary fuel cell technology in Japan. The joint venture will incorporate Toshiba's (Tokyo, Japan) fuel cell development activities in Japan and focus on accelerating development of Proton Exchange Membrane (PEM) […]
Lear Corp. (Southfield, MI) and Exide Corp. (Reading, PA) have announced that they have signed a letter of intent to enter into a strategic collaboration. The corporations plan to co-develop and market advanced power-packaging solutions for the automotive industry. The collaboration will focus on designing interior systems to meet the increasing complexity and power requirements […]
Lear Corp. (Southfield, MI) and Exide Corp. (Reading, PA) have announced that they have signed a letter of intent to enter into a strategic collaboration. The corporations plan to co-develop and market advanced power packaging solutions for the automotive industry. The collaboration will focus on designing interior systems to meet the increasing complexity and power […]
IMPCO Technologies, Inc. (Cerritos, CA) announced that a team of scientists hydroburst tested a high-performance prototype hydrogen storage cylinder designed for Fuel Cell Vehicle applications (FCVs). The scientists, who were from IMPCO, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratories (Livermore, CA), Thiokol Propulsion (Salt Lake City, UT), and Alcoa Industrial Components Group, a subsidiary of Alcoa Inc. (Pittsburgh, […]
DaimlerChrysler AG, BP, BASF, Statoil Methanex Corp., and XCELLSIS have formally agreed to cooperate in a study which will evaluate what would be needed to facilitate the introduction and commercialization of methanol fuel cell vehicles. After scrutinizing health, safety and environmental issues associated with the introduction of methanol fuel cell vehicles, the companies hope to […]
Hitachi Ltd. (Tokyo, Japan) raised its first-half net profit forecast last week and is now predicting an increase of more than 11 times their initial estimate. Instead of the originally expected 4.7 billion yen, Hitachi anticipates reaping 55.0 billion yen ($514.6 million dollars). The rise is largely due to the increased demand for semiconductor chips […]
The US Small Business Association (SBA) has announced that FuelCell Energy Inc. (FCE, Danbury, CT) is the recipient of the SBA's Tibbetts Award. This award is given annually to small firms, projects, organizations or individuals judged to exemplify the best in Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR).Under a SBIR program supported by the US Dept. of […]
FuelCell Energy Inc. (Danbury, CT) has been notified by the Department of Energy (DOE) National Energy Technology Laboratory (NETL) that it has been selected to design, construct and operate a 250kW direct fuel cell at the Harrison Mining Corporation coal mine in Cadiz, OH, 50 miles west of Pittsburgh. Negotiations leading to a final award […]
Eagle-Picher Technologies LLC (EPT, Joplin, MO) has announced the name of its new subsidiary in British Columbia as Eagle-Picher Energy Products Corp. (EPC). The subsidiary, formerly known as BlueStar Battery Systems Corp. (BBSC), was acquired by EPT on June 30, 2000, and was an amalgamation of BlueStar Advanced Technology Corporation and BlueStar Systems Corporation. Rex […]
Electric Auto Corp. (EAC, Fort Lauderdale, FL) announced that it plans to start production in California of a full-performance, zero-emission, electric Silver Volt sport utility vehicle equipped with its new Apollo fuel cell and lead-cobalt battery, which will sell at the same average price as today's gasoline engine sport utility vehicle. Performance of the Silver […]
Catalytica Inc. (Mountain View, CA) reported that net revenues for the three and six months ended June 30, 2000, decreased by 17.7 and 8.4 percent, respectively, when compared with the revenues in the same periods in 1999. Product sales decreased by 22.0 and 13.7 percent, respectively, during the three and six months ended June 30, […]