Intelligent Energy teams up with Suzuki to develop fuel-cell motorcycles
Intelligent Energy (IE), known on ABG's pages as the company behind the ENV fuel-cell motorcycle, has announced that they will partner up with Suzuki Motor Corporation on the development of prototype hydrogen fuel-cell motorcycles. Future bikes produced by the partnership will run on Intelligent Energy's proprietary Proton Exchange Membrane (PEM) fuel-cells that are billed by IE as having class-leading performance in automotive applications. The PEM design utilises thin metallic bipolar plates, allowing the resultant fuel-cell to be extremely compact and easy to mass manufacture.
Intelligent Energy's Chief Executive Dr Henri Winand was quoted as saying, "As a company, we have a range of leading clean technologies based on proprietary fuel cell and fuel processing systems. We work with key partner companies to integrate our systems into their products. It is well known that Japanese companies are particularly sophisticated and knowledgeable when it comes to fuel cell-based products. We are therefore delighted to announce our new partnership with the Suzuki Motor Corporation."
Analysis: The ENV has clearly proved the viability of fuel-cell powered motorcycles but Intelligent Energy was always going to have to partner up with an existing manufacturer to bring their PEM technology to the market in a meaningful way. This partnership paves the way for a whole new class of zero-emission vehicles on our roads.
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[Source: Intelligent Energy press release]
Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)
Tim 8:48AM (4/10/2007)
Big Energy will stop at NOTHING in to change our addiction from one product they control (Oil) to another (Reformed Natural Gas also known as Hydrogen).
They know we can't economically electrolyze, compress, transfer or store hydrogen especially at home like we could with electricity. “Fool me once, shame on you. Fool me twice, I’m an idiot and I deserve it!”
Let’s look at the Hydrogen Scam-science: (always follow the money!!)
http://www.oilcrash.com/articles/h_scam.htm http://www.physorg.com/news85074285.html
Don’t let them make fools of us yet again with fool-cells.
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pkuhl 3:58PM (4/10/2007)
I agree with Tim. Fool-cells is a great term.
Here's a chief scientist at the European Fuel Cell Forum telling us to stop wasting our time with hydrogen Fool Cells (he thinks non-hydrogen ones might have some limited application).
http://www.efcf.com/e/reports/E17.pdf
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pkuhl 4:00PM (4/10/2007)
...I forgot to mention, I am not here to stop progress away from dirty hydrocarbon use by dumping on fool-cells. I'm dumping on fool-cells in favor of chemical battery fully electric cars, as is the scientist in my link above.
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Chris M 2:02AM (4/11/2007)
Although I'm tempted to agree, it isn't good to use the term "fool cell". It sounds too much like an ad-hominem attack and distracts from the issue.
Also, most of the problems are with hydrogen, not fuel cells. Some fuel cells have been designed to run directly on methane, or carbon, or methanol, or even on organic waste, thereby avoiding the many problems of H2 fuel. (They are still rather pricy, but that may change with improvements.)
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danielgiancola 1:05PM (5/29/2008)
come on man. i'm getting worn out with this anticipation stuff. get it out already
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