Recently funding levels for clean technologies seem to increase by an addtional three 0's, the talk is billions: €6 billion for the EU Green Cars Initiative, an extra €8 bln for regional projects on energy efficiency and renewable energy projects in the EU Cohesion funds that will be extended to all EU Member States, €5 bln for CCS, wind and smart grid development. Hydrogen and fuel cell technologies have links to all of these topics, extending the range of electric transport applications and making the most efficient use of primary energy, both conventional and renewable. Informing key decision makers of the important efforts of European industry and research in developing commercial hydrogen and fuel cell systems and the need for focussed EU policy support in the next coming years will be crucial to ensure that some if these stimulus zero's will be spent in our sector. The EHA, together with its industry and national association members and through its support of HyRaMP, the regional partnership for hydrogen and fuel cells, is committed to continue play an important role to influence this political... read more
Updated 25-03-2009
On 24 March 2009, Daimler, Shell, TOTAL, Vattenfall Europe, and hySOLUTIONS signed an agreement with the City of Hamburg to build a low-emission fleet of vehicles and the accompanying infrastructure, including hydrogen fuelling stations. From 2010 a total of... read more
Updated 13-03-2009
On March 13 European Commissioner for Science and Research, Janez Potočnik, opened a new facility for testing fuel consumption and emissions of trucks and buses. The new installation, “VELA 7″ at the Commission’s Joint Research Centre (JRC) in Ispra... read more
Updated 13-03-2009
Hydrogen and Fuel Cell Platform founded in Hungary
The long term goal of the Platform is to promote the development of hydrogen economy in Hungary. Members of the platform are research intstitutes, university departments, public associations and private companies from... read more
Updated 26-03-2009
The EU Parliament adopted on March 24 for a resolution calling on the European Commission to ensure “the best use of European funds available in support of jobs” to train and retrain workers in the car industry. It states... read more
Updated 20-03-2009
The Council of the EU’s leaders on March 19 – 20, 2009, approved six Carbon Capture and Storage (CCS) projects as part of the EU Economic Recovery Plan, that will use pre- combustion technology, allowing the production of hydrogen... read more
Updated 10-03-2009
European Commissioner for Regional Policy, Daniela Hübner announced on March 9, 2009 that €105 billion will be invested in the “green economy” through the EU Cohesion Policy. The funding represents more than 30% of the regional policy budget for... read more
Updated 05-03-2009
On the occasion of the Motorshow in Geneva the UN Environment Programme (UNEP), the International Energy Agency (IEA), the International Transport Forum (ITF) and the FIA Foundation launched the ‘50 by 50′ Global Fuel Economy Initiative to promote the development... read more
Updated 31-03-2009
On the occasion of the World Hydrogen Energy Conference (WHEC) 2010 in Essen the International Partnership for the Hydrogen Economy (IPHE) is organizing “IPHE Global School Student Competition”.
The objective of the competition is to increase young people’s awareness, enthusiasm... read more
Updated 30-03-2009
The United States Federal Transit Administration has released a report which reviews more than 20 hydrogen bus trials and demonstrations which operated worldwide between 2002 and 2007. The trials were in the US, Europe, China, Japan and Australia. Both... read more
Updated 11-03-2009
“We have to make our zero emissions vehicles fascinating and beautiful,” said Mercedes-Benz’ research and development boss, Dr. Thomas Weber at the Geneva Motor Show 2009. This year Mercedes therefor will spend a chunk of his 8 billion euro... read more
Updated 06-03-2009
Honda is featuring fuel cell car the FCX Clarity fuel cell car at the Geneva Motor Show (March 5-15, 2009) . The FCX Clarity is a next-generation, zero-emission, hydrogen-powered fuel cell vehicle based on an entirely new Honda V... read more
Updated 25-03-2009
On 24 March 2009, Daimler, Shell, TOTAL, Vattenfall Europe, and hySOLUTIONS signed an agreement with the City of Hamburg to build a low-emission fleet of vehicles and the accompanying infrastructure, including hydrogen fuelling stations. From 2010 a total of... read more
Updated 13-03-2009
On March 13 European Commissioner for Science and Research, Janez Potočnik, opened a new facility for testing fuel consumption and emissions of trucks and buses. The new installation, “VELA 7″ at the Commission’s Joint Research Centre (JRC) in Ispra... read more
Updated 13-03-2009
Hydrogen and Fuel Cell Platform founded in Hungary
The long term goal of the Platform is to promote the development of hydrogen economy in Hungary. Members of the platform are research intstitutes, university departments, public associations and private companies from... read more
Updated 28-03-2009
The World Hydrogen Energy Conference 2010, that will be held from May 16-21, 2010 in Essen, Germany, has launched its Call for papers. The objective of the 18th World Hydrogen Energy Conference is to promote hydrogen technologies and to... read more
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