Eleven Kids 4 Hydrogen members gathered at Merit Academy for a fascinating presentation and discussion about “Well to Wheels” costs for energy. This presentation by Tim McGuire and Lora Renz offered excellent graphs and information to help the team better understand the true costs of producing energy. After the presentation, the…
Thursday, April 24, 2014 Join CaFCP staff and its members on Thursday, April 24 from 8:30am to 5:00pm for the “Silicon Valley Driving Charged and Connected” at SAP facilities in Palo Alto California. During the day, Honda, Mercedes Benz, and Toyota will offer test drives in hydrogen-powered vehicles and will be…
Fuel Cell Dispatch News Monday, March 17, 2014 Why hydrogen powered cars will drive Elon Musk crazy Forget the Tesla Model S. Another car of the future is finally hitting the highway. After decades of development—and no small amount of skepticism—major automakers are set to start selling hydrogen fuel-cell cars in…
At the end of Kids 4 Hydrogen’s 10-day California Hydrogen Fuel Cell Tour, the team was pumped to keep the ground swell going. California is the leader in setting up hydrogen fueling stations and leasing hydrogen fuel cell cars. Now Teagan Knight, a high school junior, is working with high schools…
Team Kids4Hydrogen met to discuss plans for each new chapter. They developed information packets and documents for new chapters that are opening across the United States!
Natalie drove the F-Cell and handed it off to Raymond Lee. The team L0VED driving the Mercedes F-Cell and will buy fuel cell cars when they are available in 2015! Thank you to Michael Schweizer and Lora Renz for making their Mercedes F-Cell available to us for our 10-day tour!
After planning this tour for over a year, the kids watched the 10-day H2 tour slideshow in Merit’s theater with the Kids 4 Hydrogen team and their families. They devoured a delicious teriyaki chicken dinner and yummy carrot cake! Enjoying a delicious BBQ dinner before the slideshow! Great closure — lots…
Joe Jordan, the NASA scientist who introduced Merit Academy students to hydrogen fuel cell technology in February 1997, visits the Kids 4 Hydrogen team in Santa Cruz to cheer them on! He traveled with the Merit Academy team to Humboldt State in 1997 to meet engineers who taught the students about…
After traveling over 1200 miles on our 10-day tour, we loved arriving in Santa Cruz — headquarters for Kids 4 Hydrogen! Friends and family met us on the Pacific Garden Mall where we conducted our last demonstration and Q&A. Michael Beck gave an interview with KSBW, Channel 8, and Rebecca Fang…
Today’s event was the biggest hit yet! Rebecca Fang did a bilingual interview with SinoVision TV in Mandarin and English! She also spoke to a Chinese newspaper reporter. We hope that our message gets across to an international audience! KTVU Channel 2 (San Jose) interviewed Nick Mercadante. Michael Beck, Natalie Kassel,…