Both GM and Honda have more than 1,200 fuel cell patents between them, filed between 2002 and 2012, and experimental vehicle fleets. They are the top two companies in terms of total fuel cell patents according to the Clean Energy Patent Growth Index.
Both companies aim to develop the vehicles by 2020. The alliance will bring down their costs in building this expensive technology by sharing each other�� expertise and suppliers.
Why Fuel Cell Vehicles?
The U.S. mandate requires corporate average fuel economy of 54.5 miles per gallon by 2020 and there is no better competent than fuel cell vehicles. Why? Fuel cells have highly fuel-efficient technology compared to gasoline and electric batteries. Secondly, it has a longer driving range (up to 400 miles) than electric cars but pollutes less than gasoline vehicles.
Top 5 Clean Energy Companies To Own In Right Now: Rainmaker Enternainment Inc (RNK.TO)
Rainmaker Entertainment Inc. engages in the production of animated projects and provision of animation services to film, television, and gaming industries. The company produces computer generated animation of family entertainment in various entertainment medias, including television, DVD, gaming, and theatrical films. It operates a multi-faceted animation studio that provides animation productions services from concept to completion, including design, casting, recording, modeling, pre-viz, shot set-up, layout, animation, motion capture, render, lighting, and post production. The company also develops and produces its own properties, including feature films and shorts, as well as produces feature length direct to DVD films for international brands. It creates animation films based on various international brands, including Barbie, Hot Wheels, Spiderman, Casper, Popeye, Tony Hawk, Stuart Little, and Inspector Gadget. Rainmaker Entertainment Inc. was founded in 1993 and is he adquartered in Vancouver, Canada.
Top 5 Clean Energy Companies To Own In Right Now: Atac Resources Ltd. (ATC.V)
ATAC Resources Ltd. engages in exploring for metals and minerals with a focus on gold in Canada. It primarily focuses on the exploration and development of the Rackla gold project covering approximately 1,600 square kilometers located in central Yukon. The company also owns interests in the Connaught prospect, a silver-gold property located in the Sixtymile placer gold camp of western Yukon Territory; and the Dawson gold project located in west-central Yukon approximately. ATAC Resources Ltd. is headquartered in Vancouver, Canada.
Best Biotech Companies For 2014: London Stock Exchange(LSE.L)
London Stock Exchange Group plc, together with its subsidiaries, engages in the admission of securities to trading; the delivery of trading systems; clearing and settlement of trading in securities; the organization and regulation of markets in securities; and the provision of real time data and other information products, and technology services. It operates in four segments: Capital Markets, Post Trade Services, Information Services, and Technology Services. The Capital Markets segment facilitates the companies to raise capital, including equity and debt, as well as provides liquid secondary markets for the trading. This segment operates through the Main Market, which offers listing and trading of equity, debt, and other securities; AIM, an equities market for smaller growing companies; Professional Securities Market that provides listing of debt and depository receipts to professional investors; and Specialist Fund Market that provides listing of specialized investment funds. It has 2,938 companies listed or admitted on its markets. The Post Trade Services segment provides various risk management and trade processing services to ensure the completion of trades and custody of assets. It also offers clearing, settlement, and custody services for equity, derivative, and fixed income securities on various platforms and for over the counter products. The Information Services segment provides real time data and other information products, including reference data, indices and desktop solutions for trading participants and investors. The Technology Services segment ensures speed, performance, security, and flexibility of trading, as well as sells systems to third parties. It also offers technology connections and data centre services for clients as well as technology and enterprise services sales to third parties worldwide. London Stock Exchange Group plc was founded in 1698 and is headquartered in London, the United Kingdom.
Top 5 Clean Energy Companies To Own In Right Now: Yoma Strategic Holdings Ltd (Z59.SI)
Yoma Strategic Holdings Ltd., an investment holding company, engages in the development and management of properties, and sale of land development rights and houses in Singapore, Myanmar, and the People�s Republic of China. It is also involved in agricultural activities, such as the managing and marketing produce from a 100,000 acre Jatropha Curcas and black pepper plantation located in the Ayerwaddy Division of Myanmar; and automobile dealership business, as well as provision of construction related services. In addition, the company provides project management services; property management; and architectural and design services. The company�s development properties portfolio includes apartments, condominiums, private residential properties, houses, and townhouses. Yoma Strategic Holdings Ltd. is based in Singapore.
Top 5 Clean Energy Companies To Own In Right Now: Schnitzer Steel Industries Inc.(SCHN)
Schnitzer Steel Industries, Inc. engages in recycling ferrous and nonferrous scrap metals, and used and salvaged vehicles; and manufacturing finished steel products. The company operates through three segments: Metals Recycling Business (MRB), Auto Parts Business (APB), and Steel Manufacturing Business (SMB). The MRB segment involves in the purchase, collection, processing, recycling, sale, and broking of ferrous scrap metals. It processes mixed and large pieces of scrap metal into smaller pieces by sorting, shearing, shredding, and torching. This segment?s products include ferrous products, including ferrous scrap metal, a feedstock used in the production of finished steel products; and nonferrous scrap metals, including aluminum, copper, stainless steel, nickel, brass, titanium, lead, high temperature alloys, and joint products, such as zorba (mixed nonferrous material) and zurik (stainless steel). The MRB segment sells its products to steel mills and smelters. The APB segment purchases used and salvaged vehicles and sells serviceable used auto parts from these vehicles through its 45 self-service auto parts stores, which are located across the United States and western Canada. It also sells other vehicles, including auto bodies; cores, such as engines, transmissions, alternators, and catalytic converters; and nonferrous materials to metal recyclers. The SMB segment engages in the purchase of recycled metal, and processing of the recycled metal and other raw materials into finished steel products. Its product portfolio comprises semi-finished goods and finished goods consisting of rebar, coiled rebar, wire rod, merchant bar, and other specialty products. This segment serves steel service centers, construction industry subcontractors, steel fabricators, wire drawers, and farm and wood product suppliers. The company exports its products worldwide. Schnitzer Steel Industries, Inc. was founded in 1946 and is based in Portland, Oregon.
Advisors' Opinion:- [By Dan Caplinger]
Another problem that ArcelorMittal and other steel companies have faced is the emerging Chinese steel industry. China subsidizes its steelmakers, and with Chinese infrastructure and construction activity being relatively weak, oversupply is spilling over and having an impact on world steel prices. Recycled scrap producer Schnitzer Steel (NASDAQ: SCHN ) noted last month that market prices for its exports fell by $50 per ton during its most recent quarter, and given Schnitzer's exposure to Asia, those figures likely reflect China's contribution to the global weakness.
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