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The cookie is set by GDPR cookie consent to record the user consent for the cookies in the category "Functional". The cookie is used to store the user consent for the cookies in the category "Analytics". These cookies ensure basic functionalities and security features of the website, anonymously. Necessary cookies are absolutely essential for the website to function properly. READ the latest news shaping the hydrogen market at Hydrogen Centralįirst hydrogen vehicle lands on the Big Island, September 5, 2021 Ponthieux sees the possibility of taking three-year-old lease car turn-ins and fitting them with hydrogen cells, then selling them with fuel built into the price, enabling early adopters to have fuel paid upfront and ensuring the fueling station infrastructure can be built. Condo owners aren’t going to want to leave their cars charging overnight in the Target parking lot, he said. The limited number of stations would have to be first-come, first-serve. Most condo buildings don’t have the infrastructure to run too many charging stations, he said. “There’s silver buckshot and this is one of the pieces of the buckshot.” “There’s no silver bullet,” he said about choices between the two technologies.
“Well, the fueling stations are the chickens, the buses are the eggs and the county is the hen-house.”Įventually, Ponthieux said, there will be at least five or six hydrogen “filling stations” on the island, where a car can be charged in as little as five minutes, compared to the eight hours it takes to recharge a conventional battery-powered electric vehicle. “Everybody says of hydrogen it doesn’t progress because of the chicken and egg problem,” Saito said. The vehicles need hydrogen fueling stations, while the fueling stations can’t be economically constructed without an assured customer base. He and Ponthieux likened the emergence of the new fuel source to a chicken and egg problem. Saito said the county is working closely with innovators such as Blue Planet and NELHA. Riley Saito, energy specialist at the county Department of Research and Development. Two other buses, shuttle buses donated by Hawaii Volcanoes National Park, are awaiting parts after supply chain disruptions caused by the coronavirus pandemic, he said.Īndoh is also working on bidding documents to purchase more zero-emission vehicles using money from the Hawaii Department of Transportation. John Andoh, Interim Transit Administrator It’s currently in Honolulu, where a fuel cell issue is being addressed, said interim Transit Administrator John Andoh. The first bus is a 2014 Eldorado 29-passenger Aero Elite vehicle that was donated to the county by the University of Hawaii Natural Energy Institute after it was converted from diesel power and upgraded to fuel cells that run on hydrogen fuel. The buses themselves, however, are behind schedule. Department of Energy, the Office of Naval Research and the state’s hydrogen fund. A fueling station, using hydrogen fuel produced at the Natural Energy Laboratory of Hawaii Authority, has been installed in Kailua-Kona.įunding for the necessary equipment was provided by grants awarded more than five years ago from the U.S. The county’s own hydrogen fuel vehicle efforts, however, have been lagging. He said a wrap is being designed to explain that the car is hydrogen-powered, essentially running on water. Ponthieux said the car, which was privately purchased and delivered by sustainable energy developer H2 Energy, will be used to promote hydrogen infrastructure on the island at demonstrations and events. “The hydrogen we make from our excess solar power is what’s fueling this car right now. Paul Ponthieux, director and chief technology officer of Blue Planet Research.
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