H2-international Blog

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Electric Transportation Is Not a Carmaker’s Privilege

The expansion of renewable energies in the transportation sector requires new types of propulsion and energy supply systems for all means of transport, as environmental hazards can have an impact on a country’s population, especially in metropolitan areas. Transportation on inland waterways shows enormous potential for improvement because today’s propulsion systems will not be able ...
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/ BEHALA, e4ships, ELEKTRA, Germany, Holbach, Mitropoulos, propeller, ships, TU Berlin
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Fuel Cell Outlook Never Been Better

The large increase in the number of orders placed with each one of the fuel cell businesses analyzed in this and following articles promises a very bright future for the industry. Prototypes give way to mass production. The recent stabilization of the oil price is an effective mental tool. The road to profitability is there ...
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/ Beacon Falls, FuelCell Energy, mass production, North America, Outlook, potential, promising, stock market
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Plug Power: Growth Not Losing Speed

The fourth quarter brought another growth boost by 70% to USD 38.4 million compared to the same quarter last year. Plug Power’s total revenue added up to more than USD 103 million, although it could have been 3.6 million more if the sale-leaseback transactions hadn’t forced the company to distribute the amount for tax reasons ...
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/ BMW, North America
Audi Gets the Fuel Cell

Audi Gets the Fuel Cell

As predicted several times before, #dieselgate is the driver of upcoming changes at German carmaker Volkswagen. In March 2016, it was said that the Wolfsburg-based corporation would concentrate all fuel cell activities at its Audi subsidiary. This will necessitate a move of most of the fuel cell research, which has so far been conducted in ...
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/ Audi, dieselgate, production, R&D, Salzgitter, Volkswagen, VW, Wolfsburg, worldwide
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LOHC – A Reusable Bottle for Hydrogen

Five years ago, some called carbazole the “wonder fuel” and “fuel source of the future,” although basic research hadn’t even been concluded yet. After intensive development, Hydrogenious Technologies has just presented a potential successor to the carbazole legacy: dibenzyl toluene. On Jan. 29, 2016, the company based in Erlangen, Germany, brought its first hydrogen storage ...
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/ Amplats, Anglo, Areva H2Gen, Arlt, carbazole, catalyst, Cella, dibenzyl, Erlangen, Gemmer-Berkbilek, H2-Industries, Hydrogenious, LOHC, Marlotherm, platinum, toluene, Wasserscheid, worldwide
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Energy Saxony: Rohleder Replaces Franke

On March 1, 2016, Lukas Rohleder took over management of Energy Saxony. The 34-year-old replaced Robert Franke, who became head of the Office of Economic Development in Dresden, the capital of the German state of Saxony, on Oct. 1, 2015. Rohleder was last employed as the executive assistant for political communication at aireg, after he ...
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/ Dresden, Energy Saxony, Franke, Germany, Rohleder, sunfire, Wolfgang Schäuble
Coop Sticks Around - Axpo Quits

Coop Sticks Around – Axpo Quits

Despite announcements to the contrary, the H2 project in Glattfelden in the Swiss canton of Zurich (see HZwei issue from July 2015) will deliver on its promises. At the beginning of March 2016, rumors had it that Axpo and Coop would stop their joint project. The project’s coordinator, Hansjörg Vock from H2 Energy, told H2-international ...
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/ Axpo, Coop, Europe, H2 Energy, Hansjörg Vock, prototype, Swiss, Truck, Zurich
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nanoFlowcell Ad Campaigns Continue

Like in the last years, nanoFlowcell garnered a lot of attention at this year’s International Motor Show in Geneva, Switzerland. Like in the last years, there are big announcements, but little to back them up. The 2016 headlines: The QUANTiNO had successfully completed a 14-hour test drive indoors, the car’s range would soon increase to ...
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/ Bertschi, DigiLab, Europe, Geneva, nanoFlowcell, nanoResearch, Quant City, QUANTiNO, redox flow, Tenero
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New Eurosolar Management – Scheer-Pontenagel Quits

Over decades, Irmgard Scheer-Pontenagel and her husband – Hermann Scheer, who died in 2010 – had been influential figures who helped shape the renewable energy industry. After a 25-year tenure at the helm of Eurosolar, Scheer-Pontenagel has stepped down and made room for Tobias Jaletzky, who started working at the association based in Bonn, Germany, ...
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/ Europe, EUROSOLAR, Hermann Scheer, Irmgard Scheer-Pontenagel, Lina Hedwig, Solarzeitalter, Tobias Jaletzky
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Hybrid Cars Put the Brakes on Electric Transportation

The number of electric vehicles in use on Austrian roads could grow from 4,700 to around 8,000 this year, according to a statement made by the country’s environmental protection agency. In 2017, the figure could jump to 23,000; in 2020, there could be around 174,000 electric cars driving in the Alpine state. Jürgen Halasz, chair ...
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/ Austria, BEÖ, Electric, Europe, Graz, hybrid, Jürgen Halasz, Q6, Transportation, Vienna
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Tesla Makes It Happen – Just Like That

First things first: This isn’t one of these test drive articles narrowly reporting all the various technical details or complaining about a not-so-perfect weight distribution. It is about the experiences made with Tesla’s Model S on one single day of driving, during which it quickly became clear that the author had found his new dream ...
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/ computer, Elon Musk, gadget, Gritz, iPhone, P90D, screen, supercharger, Tesla, worldwide, YouTube
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Ten Years of HZwei News

Ten years ago, Hydrogeit Verlag printed its first issue of the HZwei magazine - the German counterpart of H2-international. Entitled “H2Tec” in 2000, the Magazine for Hydrogen and Fuel Cells had been published for six years prior under SunMedia before the people responsible for it intended to go their separate ways – because the industry ...
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/ Fuel Cells, Germany, H2, H2-international, Hydrogeit Verlag, hydrogen, HZwei, magazine, subscribers
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THE E-JOURNAL ON

hydrogen and fuel cells

H2-international is the English-language e-journal of choice for everyone who wants to stay at the forefront of news about hydrogen and fuel cells. In-depth articles about science, technology and the latest developments keep readers up to date on advances in the hydrogen and fuel cell sector as well as the electric vehicle and the energy storage market. The focus is on detailed yet clearly written news stories by industry journalists and R&D experts.

In-depth news articles on hydrogen, fuel cells, energy storage and electric transportation.

The e-journal is intended for readers who are looking for in-depth news articles on hydrogen, fuel cells, energy storage and electric transportation. The main audience consists of professionals and executives working in all parts of the energy market.. This group comprises decision makers at production and trading companies, representatives for associations, government agencies as well as universities, and staff members at gas companies, carmakers and their suppliers.

The publisher Sven Geitmann, owner and founder of the Hydrogeit publishing house, had taken an intense interest in hydrogen and fuel cells as early as 1997 and became a contributor to energieportal24 and H2Report in 2000. After he wrote a number of technical books, he founded his own publishing company in the northwest of Berlin. In 2005, he took on responsibility for the former “H2Tec” magazine, which he renamed “HZwei”. This trade publication soon boasted a revamped design and more issues per year and grew into the quarterly must-read for everyone following the hydrogen and fuel cell market.

In 2015, Hydrogeit Verlag created the global English-language edition H2-international. Since then, it has kept readers in all corners of the world up to date on what’s happening in the sector.