Fuel Cell

German clean aviation companies H2Fly and Deutsche Aircraft are joining forces to develop a hydrogen-fuel-cell-powered airliner capable of carrying 40 people, with a demonstration aircraft set to take its first flights in 2025.

Despite an abrupt and unscheduled ending to its six-seater test program, hydrogen aviation pioneer ZeroAvia is ramping up development of the largest fuel cell-powered aircraft to date – a pair of 19-seaters – and is preparing for something much bigger.

As it eyes the future of sustainable transport through the development of advanced batteries and hydrogen fuel cell technologies, General Motors is now expanding these ambitions to include the world of freight.

The Land Rover Defender is one of the world's great explorers, a natural candidate for a zero-emissions powertrain. Land Rover thinks the right fit might be a hydrogen fuel cell drive that stands up to driver demands while leaving behind only water.

Like Volkswagen, Toyota and other big names in auto-manufacturing, Honda is making moves away from fossil fuels, declaring a new plan to only sell electric vehicles in major markets by 2040, along with some lofty ambitions around road safety.

Segway-Ninebot has rather sensationally announced that it's building a hydrogen fuel cell sportsbike – and boy does this thing look like it glitched its way out of Cyberpunk 2077, complete with a highly improbable steering design and an amazing price.

Last year, Yanmar announced that it was looking at developing a maritime system using hydrogen fuel cells from Toyota's Mirai production line. Now a passenger boat prototype has hit the water off the coast of Kunisaki in the Oita Prefecture in Japan.

In order to promote hydrogen developments outside its own product lineup, Toyota has packaged up a fuel cell module you can buy more or less like a crate engine, ready to plumb into whatever device you'd like to power with hydrogen.

Hydrogen commercial vehicle conversion company ULEMCo and industry partners have agreed the design of a new fuel cell rapid response ambulance prototype that's destined to hit the streets of London later this year.

Ten times the energy density of a lithium battery, in a simple magnesium-based paste that can be refilled at a pump or changed out in cartridges. Fraunhofer's Powerpaste offers a safe, convenient, high-density way to store, transport and use H2 energy.

Where will hydrogen fit in the clean transport mix? Not in trucking, says one of the world's largest heavy duty vehicle manufacturers, which is scaling back its fuel cell big-rig research and development operations in favor of battery-electric power.

VTOL (vertical take-off and landing) drones are quite versatile, as they combine the vertical flight of a helicopter with the efficient forward flight of a fixed-wing airplane. This one features an extended range, thanks to a fuel cell power system.