After 40-year losing streak, Canadian fuel cell maker's shares are soaring
Canadian hydrogen fuel cell pioneer Ballard Power Systems Inc. has hung on for four decades without posting a profit, waging a battle far head of its time against the combustion engine. It says its moment may finally be arriving. Fuel cell and hydrogen costs are falling, ...
Tepco unit to tie up with JXTG on hydrogen production for fuel-cell vehicles
Tokyo Electric Power Company Holdings Inc.'s thermal power generation unit will team up with a subsidiary of JXTG Holdings Inc. to start producing hydrogen for fuel cell vehicles in 2020. Tepco Fuel & Power Inc. said Friday that it and JXTG Nippon Oil & Energy ...
Toyota Motor Corp., which has made a big bet on hydrogen-powered cars, is looking more isolated as industry rivals double down on plug-in electric vehicles as the dominant technology in the emerging post-fossil fuel era. Three years ago, Toyota President Akio Toyoda, grandson of company ...
Toyota, Shell among giants betting $10.7 billion on hydrogen
Toyota Motor Corp. and four of its car-making peers are joining oil and gas giants including Royal Dutch Shell PLC and Total SA with plans to invest a combined €10 billion ($10.7 billion) in hydrogen-related products within five years. In all, 13 energy, transport and ...
Auto power play: Japan's hydrogen car in a race against China's battery drive
Asia's two vehicle-making powerhouses, Japan and China, are jostling for supremacy over how future electric cars should generate their power — from batteries or hydrogen-powered fuel cells. In a potentially high-stakes clash reminiscent of Sony versus Panasonic in the Betamax-VHS video war in the 1980s, ...
The Tokyo Metropolitan Government has announced plans to increase the number of hydrogen stations for fuel-cell vehicles within its jurisdiction to 35 by the 2020 Tokyo Olympics and to 80 by 2025. "We would like to make a (hydrogen utilization) model first in Tokyo in ...
Toyota ratchets up 'green car' race with 2015 fuel cell vehicle launch
In 1997, Toyota caught its competitors by surprise with the revolutionary Prius, the first commercially successful gasoline-electric hybrid car. Now it is trying to do the same with a technology that seems straight out of science fiction. Toyota Motor Corp. will next year launch a ...
NTT DoCoMo to use fuel cells at base stations in event of disaster
NTT DoCoMo Inc. will introduce environment-friendly fuel cells at cellphone base stations across the country as emergency power sources in the event of a disaster, company officials said Friday. Among its base stations, just one in Tokyo currently has fuel cells. Japan's largest mobile phone ...
