Four automakers take fuel cell vehicles on European road trip

Four automakers take fuel cell vehicles on European road trip:
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Global automakers are taking a European road trip together to promote hydrogen fuel cell vehicles. On September 13, seven different fuel cell cars from Mercedes-Benz, Honda, Hyundai, and Toyota started a one-month tour with stopovers planned for nine European cities as a way to introduce more people to the technology.



The European Hydrogen Road Tour 2012 will start in Hamburg, then travel through Hannover, Bolzano, Paris, Cardiff, Bristol, Swindon, London and Copenhagen, supported by local organizations in each city (see map above, where the land parts are oddly shaded blue, Buster-style).



The road show is part of the "H2moves Scandinavia" project. The project is the first European Lighthouse Project for hydrogen funded by the European Fuel Cells and Hydrogen Joint Undertaking program launched by the European Commission and European industry stakeholders.



The project's mission is reaching out to politicians, industry leaders, the press and the public to improve awareness and support for fuel cell electric vehicles. Along with that comes trying to gin up support for the hydrogen distribution infrastructure to keep these fuel cell vehicles fueled up.



A few automakers have been on this route for years. "Toyota has been active in fuel cell technology for the last 20 years and we are working to commercialise our next-generation fuel cell car by 2015," Michel Gardel, Vice-President Communications, External and Environment Affairs of Toyota Motor Europe, said in a statement, which you can find below.
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