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Two major agreements were presented within 24 hours that will mark a significant step forward in the market roll out of hydrogen and fuel cell vehicles in Europe:
Toyota, Hyundai, Daimler AG, Ford Motor Company, General Motors Co. and Honda have signed a Letter of Understanding regarding the development of fuel cell light duty vehicles and the necessary accompanying hydrogen infrastructure.  A day later the  world’s leading industrial companies signed a MoU in Berlin with the participation of the German Minister of Transport, Wolfgang Tiefensee on the  set-up of a hydrogen infrastructure in Germany so as to promote serial production of electric vehicles with fuel cells. The partners of the initiative “H2 Mobility” are Linde, Daimler, EnBW, OMV, Shell, Total, Vattenfall and the NOW GmbH National Organisation Hydrogen and Fuel Cell Technology.

The signing automobile manufacturers strongly anticipate that from 2015 onwards, a “quite significant” number—a “few hundred thousand units” over the initial products’ lifecycles—of fuel cell electric vehicles could be commercialized. These companies have built up extensive expertise in fuel cell technology; the signing marks a major industry step towards the serial production of such locally emission-free vehicles.

In order to ensure a successful market introduction of fuel-cell vehicles, it should be aligned with the build-up of necessary hydrogen infrastructure,” the carmakers said in the joint statement. “Therefore, a hydrogen infrastructure network with sufficient density is required by 2015,” the statement said.

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