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To: Allen Bucholski who wrote (7668)4/30/2004 6:55:56 PM
From: Mr. Sunshine  Read Replies (1) | Respond to of 8393
 
Hydrogenics: Sailing in Good Company

evworld.com

By Bill Moore

Interview with Boyd Taylor, VP for Business Development at Mississauga-based Hydrogenics in Ontario,Canada.


Modern sailboats have a problem. Like their motor yacht counterparts, they need electric power. And until now that meant either relying on short-lived batteries or noisy, smelly, polluting diesel generators; a solution totally at odds with the clean, windblown nature of the sport.

The advent of the low-power hydrogen fuel cell may just have solved that problem; at least that is what HaveBlue LLC and Canadian-based Hydrogenics in Mississauga, Ontario are hoping. Both companies, along with TexacoOvonics, have teamed up to develop a pollution-free power plant for sailboats that will not only provide electrical power, but also propulsion for maneuvering in harbor.

But HaveBlue's demonstration is only one of a number in which Hydrogenics is participating. Another is John Deere's fuel cell-powered Gator program, as well as an APU application for heavy commercial trucks. To learn more about the company, its products and its ambitions, EV World talked to Boyd Taylor, the company's vice president for business development. What follows is a synopsis of our 45-minute-long telephone conversation, the entirety of which EV World Premium subscribers can listen to in MP3 audio.