Westminster, 22nd June 2011 Dozens of MPs and Peers took a spin in a hydrogen powered car as the Mercedes-Benz B-Class F-CELL and an Air Products hydrogen fuelling station.
The fuelling station was presented to the Parliament for the first time can fill up the vehicle in less than four minutes!
Speaking to 500 representatives of cities, business, the financial sector and research institutions EU Commissioner for Energy Günther Oettinger launched on June 21st the EU’s new Smart Cities and Communities Initiative, the EU’s programme for the energy efficient cities of tomorrow.
The International Conference on Hydrogen Production (ICH2P-2011) is a multi-disciplinary international conference on the production of hydrogen through various methods as well as its use in various systems, including fuel cells.
Royal Institute of Technology participated in a fuel cell powered vehicle in the Shell Eco Marathon in Germany at the end of May. The Competition is about achieving the longest possible distance on as little fuel as possible and participants are students from numerous countries coming together in the spirit of healthy competition. In the Urban Concept class managed KTH car Spiros got a stretch of 60 km at 1 kWh of electricity, equivalent to 530 kilometers per liter of gasoline, which was enough to make an excellant position in the results list. KTH students had themselves built the entire system, in this educational experience. Hydrogen Sweden, was one of the KTH team’s sponsors. Source: Vatgas Sweden, NyTeknik, Shell Eco Marathon
H2 Expo 2011 will be held for the eighth time this year in Hamburg, the European Green Capital. The International Conference and Exhibition on Hydrogen, Fuel Cells and Electric Drives will provide the opportunity to discuss the latest trends and developments in mobile, stationary and portable applications. The focus will be on the latest applications in the automotive, maritime, aerospace and energy supply industries. For the first time, H2Expo will also cover the closely related fields of electric drive technology, electric energy storage systems and hybrid systems.
The two-day conference and the accompanying trade fair will bring together suppliers and potential customers from the market and offer exhibitors the chance to make new business contacts.
Over the past months EHA has been involved in numerous actions with the overall objective to prepare the European context for Hydrogen transport and energy infrastructure.
Through Consultations on the Strategic Transport and Technology Plan, Smart Cities Initiative and presence at the Cars 21 working group meetings, EHA was able to emphasize the need to start integrating hydrogen requirements in current transport and energy infrastructure planning while underlining needed technology improvements in battery electric and fuel cell electric power trains to reduce costs, large scale energy storage, smart grids facilitating the deployment of low carbon transport applications.
The TEN-T, the Trans-European Network for Transport, will also include a calls for introducing innovative technologies into transport infrastructure projects. During the next info day that will take place June 29 2011, much emphasis will be put in the application of new technologies in transport infrastructure.
EHA has taken part in submission for the Consultation on Smart Cities and Communities Initiative.
The procedure aims to indicate priority areas and next actions in terms of relevant projects and funding schemes for Smart Cities development.
EHA is representing the European hydrogen industry in recent meetings of the Future Transport Fuels Expert Group. The Group has taken an advising role to the European Commission on the development of political strategies and concrete measure aiming at substituting fossil oil as transport fuel.
The European Bioenergy EUROPE Conference organized by AEBIOM will take place on June 29-30, in parallel with the RENEXPO® Bioenergy EUROPE Exhibition and brought together over 300 experts to discuss the EU policies, biomass potential and supply related issues, bioenergy markets, financing possibilities, the evaluation of national renewable energy action plans, sustainability criteria and bioenergy technologies to produce heat, electricity and biofuels. For more information: renexpo-bioenergy
Zero Rally 2011, arranged by Zero Emission Resource Organisation (ZERO), is a race for battery electric, plug-in hybrid, bio powered and hydrogen vehicles. The 600+ km rally, will start in Hamar on June 7 and will finish two days later in Oslo.