Science & Medicine
The project on Anacapa excites students while offering daily lessons to peers worldwide via live TV and the Internet.
Feb. 6, 2003
Business
Autos: DaimlerChrysler, Ford rework ventures with Ballard to get the product to market.
Oct. 3, 2001
Ford Motor Co. and Ballard Power Systems Inc. signed a $22-million contract for Ballard to supply fuel-cell modules to Ford’s Think environmental vehicle division over the next three years.
Sept. 21, 2001
Geoff Ballard, the Canadian entrepreneur who transformed pollution-free fuel cells from an exotic power source used in the space program to an everyday engine used in industry, buses and, perhaps soon, in cars, died Aug. 2 at Lions Gate Hospital in Vancouver from complications of liver disease.
Aug. 11, 2008
Fuel-Cell Maker to Open Los Angeles Plant: Ballard Power Systems Inc., based in Vancouver, Canada, will begin manufacturing fuel cells--which convert hydrogen to electricity without combustion--in the San Fernando Valley in 1995.
Dec. 17, 1994
Autos
The fuel-cell-powered automobile received a dramatic boost Monday when Ford Motor Co., betting that the technology could replace the internal combustion engine, announced it will invest $420 million in a venture with Daimler-Benz and a pioneering Canadian firm to bring the vehicles to market in seven years.
Dec. 16, 1997
Auto makers are riveted on a new way to power a car--a simple technology that creates electricity from hydrogen, with no pollution. But cost and safety are big concerns.
Aug. 13, 1997
State Poised for Big Leap in Pollution-Control Know-How
World & Nation
In foreclosure-plagued Vegas, empty homes go to pot
Nov. 12, 2011
Autos: New system, which could be on vehicles by end of decade, is twice as efficient as the internal combustion engine.
Aug. 11, 2000