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Enova to Supply Drive Systems to IC Corp.

7/27/06. Enova Systems (OTCBB: ENOV) (AIM: ENV), manufacturer of electric, hybrid and fuel cell digital power management systems, will be supplying IC Corporation, a division of International Truck and Engine, the Hybrid Drive systems for a nationwide Hybrid School Bus initiative. (more)

SatCon Receives over $1 Million in New Fuel Cell Inverter Orders

7/24. SatCon Technology Corp. (Nasdaq: SATC) has received purchase orders totaling in excess of $1 million for its PowerGate(TM) inverters for use on sub-megawatt and megawatt-class fuel cells designed and manufactured by FuelCell Energy, Inc. (Nasdaq: FCEL). (more)

PolyFuel confident will be able to deliver on its FY key objectives

7/10/06. PolyFuel Inc, (AIM: PYF), developer of membranes for portable fuel cells, said orders from customers 'continued strong' in the first half, adding that it was confident it will be able to deliver on its key objectives for the year. (more)

PolyFuel Receives ISO 9001 Certification

7/10/06. PolyFuel (AIM: PYF) has received the ISO-9001:2000 certification for the design and manufacture of its advanced fuel cell membranes, making PolyFuel one of the earliest suppliers in the nascent fuel cell industry to achieve the standard of quality for design and manufacturing processes required for mass commercialization. (more)

Acta achieves technical targets

6/28/06. Robert Drummond, Chairman of Acta (LSE: ACTA) announced that Acta was making good progress in the first half of the current financial year and had achieved important technical milestones, including demonstrating the durability of its HYPERMEC catalysts and success with direct ethanol fuel cells. (more)

H2scan launches next generation hydrogen sensors

6/27/06. H2scan Corporation announced the launch of two new hydrogen specific sensor products, the HY-OPTIMA handheld model 500 and the HY-ALERTA in-line model 700. These next generation sensors provide accurate real time measures in extreme conditions, including condensed water environments, the presence of CO and sulfur, and in process streams up to 125ºC. (more)

Astris Energi Expands Its Line of Battery and Fuel Cell Test Products

6/22/06. Astris Energi Inc. (OTCBB:ASRNF) has announced the launch of a new product, model TL6 Battery and Fuel Cell Test Load, as a compliment to the existing line of test equipment for fuel cells and batteries. Around the world companies and institutions that produce and develop fuel cells and batteries have a continued requirement for high quality test load equipment that simplifies their everyday testing and quality control operations. The new TL6 allows larger batteries and fuel cells to be tested and evaluated. (more)

Foundation Investing $582,000 in Nano Cluster Devices Development of Hydrogen Sensors

6/22/06. The Foundation for Research, Science and Technology is investing $582,000 in Nano Cluster Devices Ltd, which has a new hydrogen sensor which could be a key enabler for the hydrogen energy market. The international market for hydrogen sensors is worth hundreds of millions of dollars a year. (more)

Hoku Scientific Commences Fuel Cell Demonstration for U.S. Navy

6/20/06. Hoku Scientific, Inc. (NASDAQ: HOKU) has commenced the demonstration of the first two stationary fuel cell power plants under its contract with the U.S. Navy at a building at Pearl Harbor. (more)

SBIR grant for advanced hydrogen membranes

6/9/06. Such membranes will have better performance, greater reliability and lower cost than current state-of-the-art purification techniques and will target hydrogen purification in fuel cells as well as in other point-of-use hydrogen applications. (more)

Bac2 Receives £500,000 to develop ElectroPhen polymer fuel cell components

6/9/06. Bac2 has secured £500,000 of seed funding to further develop ElectroPhen, its polymer material that conducts electricity and can be used in fuel cell components. Bac2's patent pending ElectroPhen material is designed to lower the cost of production of electrically conductive composite bipolar plates used in fuel cell stacks. Bac2 already has DTI grant funding of £240,000 awarded to a six member consortium, lead by Bac2, to optimise its ElectroPhen material. (more)

UQM Technologies Receives Order From Denver RTD for Generators and Motor Controllers

6/3/06. UQM TECHNOLOGIES, INC. (AMEX: UQM) has received an order from the Denver Regional Transportation District for UQMÒ generators and motor controllers to retrofit an additional ten hybrid electric mall shuttle buses. (more)

Hoku Scientific to Enter Solar Module and Polysilicon Markets

5/31/06. Hoku Scientific, Inc. (NASDAQ: HOKU), manufacturer of membrane electrode assemblies for proton exchange membrane fuel cells, plans to diversify its products by manufacturing solar modules and polysilicon, a key material used in the production of solar modules. (more)

Hoku Scientific, Inc. Reports U.S. Navy's Acceptance of Fuel Cell Systems Incorporating Hoku MEA

5/25/06. Hoku Scientific, Inc. (NASDAQ: HOKU) amanufacturer of membrane electrode assemblies and membranes for proton exchange membrane (PEM) fuel cells, today announced that the U.S. Navy has officially accepted the first two of ten planned PEM fuel cell power plants incorporating Hoku MEA that will be demonstrated at Pearl Harbor Naval Station. (more)

Viaspace Developing Hydrogen Fuel Cell Humidity Measurement Instrument

5/22/06. VIASPACE Inc. (OTC BB: VSPC) is developing a laser based instrument to measure the humidity level in hydrogen fuel cells. A Polymer Electrolyte Membrane only conducts protons when it is hydrated or moist. The moisture is provided by water vapor in the incoming air or hydrogen stream. The VIASPACE instrument will provide real-time measurements of the amount of water vapor in these gas streams. (more)

Zack's Rates Hoku Scientific a Hold

5/16/06. Hoku Scientific's (Nasdaq: HOKU) improving operational performance, profitability in the last five quarters, existing contracts, and new business opportunities, makes HOKU a compelling growth story. However, absence of high volume production and a strong competitive challenge in the alternative energy industry weigh adversely on the stock. (more)

Hoku has 5th Straight Profitable Quarter Net Declines on Lower Revenue

5/5/06. Hoku Scientific Inc. (Nasdaq: HOKU) had its fifth straight profitable quarter, but net income fell 63.7 percent. Hoku's revenue last quarter of $1.3 million primarily came from $1.2 million it received from contracts withNissan Motor Co. A year earlier, Hoku had revenue of $2.8 million, with $2.5 million coming from the Sanyo Electric contract.

Enova Systems Launches New Website with Integrated Customer Support System

4/24/06. Enova Systems (OTCBB:ENOV), a manufacturer of electric, hybrid and fuel cell digital power management systems, has a newly redesigned website that utilizes many new technologies and enables Enova to better serve its customers and investors (more)

Morphic Technologies 3Q

3/30/06. Fuel Cell component maker Morphic Technologies reported losses totaling SEK8.72m, compared to SEK3.60m in the third quarter of 2004/2005. Operating revenues were SEK10.46m, up from SEK93,000 a year earlier. One Swedish krona (SEK) equals approximately .07 British pounds.

Fuel Cell Component Market to exceed $1.68 billion by 2020

3/10/06. Fuji Keizai Co., the market for fuel cell components, $27 million in 2005, will surpass $1.68 billion in 2020. Demand for electric motors in fuel cell vehicles will grow to more than 1 million units, a $285 million market. Hydrogen-related markets will grow from to $790 million. Fuji Keizai last predicted the overall fuel cell market will exeed $8.4 billion by 2020. (more)

Enova Systems Working With International Truck

3/3/06. Enova Systems, (OTCBB: ENOV and AIM: ENV and ENVS), a leading developer and manufacturer of electric, hybrid and fuel cell digital power management systems, announced today that it is working with and evaluating Hybrid Drive Systems for International Truck and Engine Corporation (International). Enova confirmed it has delivered a Post Transmission 120 kW Hybrid Drive 4200 series Truck to International in November 2005. The delivery of the truck is in addition to a Hybrid Drive School Bus that was delivered to IC Corp in January 2006. Both the 4200 series truck and the School Bus are currently being evaluated by International at their Fort Wayne Technical Center. (more)

Enova's Hybrid Drive Systems Power Ford Fuel Cell Vehicles

2/8/06. Enova Systems, (OTCBB:ENOV) manufacturer of electric, hybrid and fuel cell digital power management systems, confirmed today that its components are currently being used in thirty Ford Focus Hydrogen Fuel Cell Vehicles and six Wrightbus Electrocity hybrid transit buses. The Ford Focus is one of the industry's first hybridized fuel cell vehicles looking to combine the improved range and performance of hybrid technology with the overall benefits of a fuel cell. (more)

Ener1 Inc CEO's Letter to Shareholders

1/31/06. Ener1 is accelerating toward commercialization of its lithium-ion hybrid vehicle batteries and fuel cell remote and back up power products. It required a fuel cell R&D facility and hired talented engineers and technicians to develop a new generation of cost competive fuel cells. Former managements intention to spin off some operations has been scrapped. (more)

Maxwell Technologies Receives 200,000-Unit, Three-Year Ultracapacitor Purchase Order From General Hydrogen

1/27/06. Maxwell Technologies, Inc. (Nasdaq: MXWL) announced today that General Hydrogen Corporation, a leading developer of hydrogen fuel cell-based power systems for electric forklifts, has placed a 200,000 unit, three-year, purchase order for BOOSTCAP(R) ultracapacitors to enhance performance and energy management in its Hydricity(R) Pack technology. (more)

Power + Energy introduces hydrogen separators

1/21/06. Membrane manufacturer Power+Energy, Inc. introduced a line of hydrogen separators based on palladium alloy membranes. The company has developed an entirely new membrane configuration engineered to maximize the recovery efficiency of hydrogen from a mixed gas stream. These separators will be coupled with fuel reformers including methanol, ethanol, natural gas, propane, ammonia, gasoline and diesel fuels. It will also provide the capability to separate hydrogen from alternative fuels including land-fill gases, synthesis gases, and biomass digesters among others. (more)

Hoku reports $202,000 profit for fourth quarter up 8.42%

1/21/06. Shares of Hoku Scientific Inc., a Honolulu-based maker of parts used in hydrogen fuel cells, jumped 8.42% yesterday after the company reported its fourth consecutive profitable quarter. Based on generally accepted accounting principles, Hoku's net income was $202,000, or 1 cent per share, on revenue of $1.7 million in the quarter ended Dec. 31. That compared with a loss of $650,000, or 11 cents per share, on revenue of $75,000 in the same quarter in 2004. (more)

Fuel Cell Membrane Market Update

1/19/06. According to a report from Frost & Sullivan, European companies are working on building fuel cell power plants for 50 MW nominal power, 200 MW rated fuel cell peak power, 60 percent electric efficiency, zero emissions and 40,000 hours of fuel cell operating time without maintenance. Effective after 2005, Europe will require all fuels to have less than 1 percent benzene. (Some companies have already developed a pervaporation membrane technology that removes benzene from aliphatics.) (more)

Toray Industries, Inc. Improves DMFC Membrane performance

12/21/05. Toray Industries, Inc. has improved the membrane electrode assembly (MEA), the primary element in a Direct Methanol Fuel Cell (DMFC)1), to a level where it could be put to practical use. The company developed a membrane that suppresses methanol cross-over to less than 1/10 of the existing fluorine-type membranes while maintaining the equivalent conductance. (more)

Oxford Catalysts Out to Catalyse a Cleaner Future

12/15/05. Oxford Catalysts Ltd, plans to develop and exploit novel catalyst technology for the energy industry which is both cost-effective and environmentally friendly. Oxford Catalysts, the 55th company to spin out from Oxford, develops catalyst technology for the petroleum refining and petrochemical industry, selected areas of the fuel cell industry, and the processing of waste biogas. (more)

GreenShift Corp. invests in Aerogel Composite, Inc.

11/23/05. GreenShift Corporation (OTC: GSHF) has agreed to invest $500,000 in Aerogel Composite, Inc., a development stage materials science company with proprietary technologies involving meso-porous carbon aerogel composites. GreenShift will purchase 25% of ACI's outstanding stock and receive certain commercial rights in return for GreenShift's investment and its provision of strategic business development and other services. Applications of ACI's Hyrogel(TM) carbon aerogel supported catalysts include hydrogen powered stationary and mobile PEM fuel cells, direct methanol fuel cells, for portable electronic devices, and other metal oxide aerogel supported catalyst for catalytic converters for gasoline and diesel powered vehicles and other internal combustion engines. (more)

3M Reports on Nano-Structured Thin Film Fuel Cell Catalyst

11/17/05. At the annual Fuel Cell Seminar, 3M Senior Scientist Dr. Mark Debe reported dramatic improvment in the durability of catalysts for Proton Exchange Membrane fuel cells--with no compromise in performance--by coating the membranes with a nano-structured sub-micron monolayer catalyst. This thin film catalyst eliminates carbon corrosion effects at high potentials, loss of catalyst surface area, catalyst activity, and fuel cell performance. The durability of fuel cell catalysts is a technical issue in the commercialization of fuel cells for motor vehicles. (more)

QuantumSphere to Fundamentally Alter Battery, Fuel Cell Markets

11/10/05. QuantumSphere, Inc., the leading manufacturer of metallic nanopowders for applications in aerospace, defense, energy, electronics and other markets demanding advanced material applications, announced it filed two patents related to the fuel cell and battery industry allowing for customization of nanometallic-additives for increased power and efficiency. (more)

Ener1 Subsidiary Unveils Full Product Line to Support New Product Engineering Service

11/14/05. Ener1 (OTC Bulletin Board: ENEI) subsidiary EnerFuel Inc., announced today that it has developed a unique single-cell testing
device, along with other hardware and associated methodologies that are the
basis of a new fuel cell product engineering service that will be introduced to the fuel cell industry at the 2005 Fuel Cell Seminar running today through Nov. 17 at the Palm Springs Convention Center in Palm Springs, California. (more)

Hydrogenics Rebrands Fuel Cell Test Division

11/11/05. Hydrogenics Corporation's (TSX:HYG) (NASDAQ:HYGS) Greenlight Power Technologies division, which specializes in equipment and services for hydrogen fuel cell testing, is renamed Hydrogenics Test Systems, effective immediately. Hydrogenics acquired Greenlight Power Technologies in 2003. (more)

NanoDynamics using nano technology to develop fuel cells

11/9/05. NanoDynamics in Buffalo, N.Y., is developing fuel cells that employ nanotechnology to help supply power for longer times at less weight and size than batteries or conventional fuel cells. One 50-watt solid oxide fuel-cell prototype, roughly the size of a loaf of bread, is composed of roughly 20 percent nanomaterials and can generate some 3,000 watt-hours of electricity from just 5 pounds of propane. A conventional solid oxide fuel cell given that little propane would generate only one-half to one-third as many watt-hours. (more)

Johnson Matthey collaborates with Intelicoat on Membrane Electrode Assemblies

10/31/05. InteliCoat (U.K.) is collaborating with the dedicated business unit, Johnson Matthey Fuel Cells (U.K.) to develop and evaluate novel design approaches, materials and production processes for making polymeric membranes, the critical component of the membrane electrode assembly (MEA) for the PEM fuel cells. The aim is higher efficiency and improved lifetime, yet lower production cost of fuel cells in large-scale automotive applications. (more)

Hoku defers booking revenue

10/7/05. Hoku Scientific is taking a conservative course on booking revenue from a renewed Navy research and development contract. The Kapolei company said Wednesday it will record payments as deferred revenue rather than log it now when the contract is known. The Navy has agreed to pay millions for specified testing and performance milestones as Hoku produces 11 hydrogen fuel cell systems, deploying 10 of them at Pearl Harbor Naval Station. (more)

Researchers creating moldable materials for fuel cell bipolar plates

9/4/05. A single fuel cell does not produce enough energy to power a car. So fuel cells are stacked, with a bipolar plate between each cell through which electrons are conducted. The hydrogen fuel and oxygen enter the plate through channels along the face on each side of the plates. Creating the channels in the bipolar plate is a manufacturing challenge. About 29 percent of the cost of a fuel cell stack is the bipolar plate, and machining channels into the plates is a significant factor. So researchers at Virginia Tech are developing compression moldable composite bipolar plates with channels included. (more)

Navy extends Hoku contract

10/05/05. The U.S. Navy has extended its contract to fund hydrogen fuel cell membrane development at Hoku Scientific Inc. of Kapolei. The news, which included a strong endorsement by the Navy contracting officer, led Piper Jaffray to raise its target price for Hoku (Nasdaq: HOKU) from $9 to $12. Investors obliged on Monday by bidding it up 15 percent to more than that. (more)

Pacific Fuel Cell Corp. Completes a Prototype of Its Nanostructured Membrane Electrode Assembly - Stock up 186%

9/23/05. Pacific Fuel Cell Corp. (OTCBB:PFCE) has completed the prototype of its nanostructured Membrane Electrode Assembly and is currently looking for partners for the nanoMEA production. The technology uses 75 percent less platinum while outperforming current state-of-the-art MEAs for methanol fuel cells. Pacific's stock rose 186% in Thursdays's trading. (more)

Acta’s breakthrough fuel cell technology wins summit media-chem contract

6/1/05 - Acta proprietary nanotechnology has enabled it to develop a new, unique family of catalysts called HYPERMEC™ catalysts which breakdown the barriers to the commercialisation of the fuel cells for mass market applications. HYPERMEC™ catalysts use low cost materials, work at low temperatures, enable use of cheap, safe and environmentally friendly fuels and solve other technical issues, thereby creating the possibility of producing fuel cells for consumer products. (more)

Modine supplying Volkswagen hybrid; raises dividend

Modine Manufacturing Co. (NYSE: MOD) will supply humidification and water management components for a Volkswagen fuel cell hybrid vehicle. Modine's work with automotive fuel cells includes projects with Ballard Power Systems Inc., a Canadian developer and manufacturer of zero-emission fuel cells. Modine provides water management components and stack cooling modules for Ballard fuel cell engines. Modine is also working with with ChevronTexaco Corp. (NYSE: CVX) to research and develop a new approach to the generation of hydrogen for fuel. Separately, Modine will repurchase up to 5 percent of its outstanding stock over the next 18 months and have a 7.7 percent increase in its annual dividend rate, to 70 cents per share. (more)

Westport Innovations expands Canadian investment

VANCOUVER, (Jan. 27, 2004) -- B.C.-based fuel cell technology supplier Westport Innovations has joined Fuel Cells Canada in an effort to advance hydrogen-based fuel technology among transportation and industrial users in Canada. Fuel Cells Canada -- a non-profit, industry and government-led association to promote fuel cell technology throughout the nation -- also named Westport COO Dr. Michael Gallagher to its Board of Directors. Westport is best known for its joint venture with Cummins Inc. to develops, manufacture, and sell a wide range of engines for heavy-truck and bus applications.

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QuestAir and FuelCell Energy to evaluate production of pure hydrogen from Direct FuelCell(R) power plants

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Fuel cell testing firm Fideris opens Zurich office

Hy-Drive Technologies and Martinrea Sign License Agreement to produce hydrogen generation unit for automobile