Boeing has also flown a Dimona motor glider with an electric motor powered by a fuel cell.

ECONOMIST: Electric planes

The hybrid power cell in the CORE motor technology makes it capable of storing and delivering large amounts of power in a very small package.

FORBES: Outdoor Power Equipment Goes Gas-Free: Makes Way To Wind Energy

After spending a recent weekend tooling around suburban Detroit in a hydrogen fuel-cell-powered Honda Motor FCX , I was struck by a remarkable image: By the time my 9-year-old daughter is shopping for her first car, she may well be considering an entirely different kind of automobile--one that runs on hydrogen, not gasoline.

FORBES: Fueling Hope

The Equinox, GM's fourth-generation fuel-cell car, has an electric motor which has no fuel injection, no pistons, no transmission, no motor oil.

NPR: On the Road with GM's Newest Hydrogen Car

The trust fund was originally set up to help fund stem cell treatment for Michael Emms when he was diagnosed with motor neurone disease when in his teens.

BBC: Julian Emms

Just under a year ago, he appeared at a public lecture in a wheelchair to announce that he was suffering from a variant of motor-neurone disease, in which the body succumbs to inexorable paralysis: like being imprisoned in a shrinking cell, he said.

ECONOMIST: Tony Judt