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At the opening of the press events for the Frankfurt Auto Show, Dieter Zetsche, the chairman of Mercedes-Benz showed off the new F-Cell production concept and said that hydrogen cars would be coming in the “hundreds of thousands” over the next few years from a variety of manufacturers.

Read More: Mercedes-Benz Chairman: Hundreds of Thousands of Hydrogen Cars Coming

Did you think that open source was only for IT? Think again. Bucking the whole automotive mainstream, Hugo Spowers has a big idea: building an open source designed car from multiple vendors and using as many commonly-available parts as possible.

Read More: The Open Source Hydrogen Car: the Urban

Mercedes-Benz has a new hydrogen fuel cell car, the B-Class F-Cell. The car has a top speed of 170km/h (106mph), a range of 385km (239 miles) and an output of 100kW/136hp and 290Nm torque. Wow!

Read More: Mercedes F-CELL Coming to the U.S. in 2010

So you’re zipping down the highway in your new, sleek, hydrogen-powered ZeroFuel car and you suddenly see the fuel gauge glowing red. Uh oh.

Well, no matter. Those two cups of coffee and that 44oz Big Gulp you had and that are coming back to haunt you will save the day.

How?

Read More: ZeroFuel: the Hydrogen Car Powered by Used Big Gulps and Coffee

The road trip started in Chula Vista, California on Monday, May 27, 2009. The tour ended in Vancouver, British Columbia on Wednesday, June 3rd. The tour group stopped in 28 cities along the way and made hydrogen-fueled history with 12 vehicles making the trek.

Read More: Hydrogen Road Tour a Success: 1,700 Miles From California to Vancouver, B.C.

The much-touted “green” President, Obama, has OK’d a slash in the Department of Energy’s research funding budget for 2010. In the typical short-sightedness of government types, DoE Secretary Chu said that because “these vehicles are 10 to 20 years away,” they aren’t as imperative as battery electric technology.

Read More: Hydrogen Fuel Cell Funding Slashed From New DOE/Obama Budget

The first of the Norwegian-spec’d Mazda RX-8 Hydrogen RE models have arrived in Norway for delivery to the government. These are the same as the Japanese test models already on the road (one of which was sent last year for Norwegian testing), except these Norwegian versions have left-hand drive and manual transmissions.

Read More: Mazda Norwegian-spec RX-8 Hydrogen RE Begins Delivery

Mazda is famous for two things: fun cars and Wankel Rotary Engines. The company has two cars in its lineup right now it’s testing as hydrogen models: the Premacy and the RX-8. The Premacy is a mini-van and the RX-8 is a sport coupe and both use rotary engines.

Read More: Mazda’s Premacy Hydrogen RE Hybrid

Wondering how the infrastructure for hydrogen-based vehicles could be set up quickly? EERC might have the answer.

Read More: EERC’s On-Demand Hydrogen Fueling Patent Approved

The California Air Resources Board (CARB) has announced that they will be issuing a grant for $1.7 million each to four organizations to build hydrogen refueling stations. Those four organizations are: The San Francisco Airport, Shell Hydrogen, Mebtahi Station Services, and UCLA.

These hydrogen refueling stations will be used for hydrogen fuel cell vehicles like the Honda FCX Clarity and will be open to the public and operate much like normal gasoline stations. This will effectively double the amount of hydrogen available to the California public for refueling.

Read More: CARB To Grant $6.8 Million for Hydrogen Refueling Stations