MPs Line-Up to Drive Hydrogen Powered Mercedes – UK
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!
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Energy Commissioner launches Smart Cities and Communities Initiative
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.
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ICH2P-2011-Thessaloniki, Greece June 19-21
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.
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Spiros Fuel Cell Vehicle competing during Shell Eco Marathon
Royal Institute of Technology participated in a fuel cell powered vehicle in the Shell Eco Marathon in Germany at the end of May ..read on»

Towards a Joint Vision on H2 Infrastructure Roll-Out
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.
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Smart Cities Consultation Submitted
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.
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Future Transport Fuels Group includes EHA
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.
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Daimler and Linde provide H2 refuelling network throughout Germany
Car manufacturer Daimler and technology company The Linde Group are pressing ahead with the development of an infrastructure for hydrogen-powered fuel-cell vehicles. Over the coming three years, the two companies plan to construct an additional 20 hydrogen filling stations in Germany, thereby ensuring a supply of hydrogen produced purely from renewable resources for the steadily increasing number of fuel-cell vehicles on the roads. The initiative links in with the existing H2 Mobility and Clean Energy Partnership infrastructure projects, which are being subsidised by the National Innovation Programme for hydrogen and fuel-cell technology (NIP).
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EcoCAR 2 Challenge
EcoCAR 2: Plugging in to the Future, is a three-year collegiate engineering competition and the only program of its kind ..read on»

Training H2 markets: from research to applications
The Ecole des Mines d’Albi is organizing from June 7 to 10, 2011 a training session entitled “The hydrogen markets: from research to applications.”
This Course is aimed at training engineers
and technicians stationed in the industry 
or field service communities  authorities,
elected officials.
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KIA fuel cell electric vehicles launched in Copenhagen – first time in Europe
May 12, 2011 two of the latest state of the art fuel cell electric vehicles from Hyundai
KIA were showcased in Copenhagen for the first time in Europe. The launch took place at an event hosted by the City of Copenhagen, with participation of Capital Mayors of the Nordic Countries.
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