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Hydrogen Fuel Cell Bus Technology State of the Art Review
Table 12 Canada‟s target on hydrogen-fuelled FC buses by 2015
Authority Efficiency FC
durability
Industry
Canada
NA
Sources: [IC, 2008].
Europe
20,000
hours
Availability Fuel
Economy
Vehicle
Range
95% NA NA
Bus
cost
850,000
US$
Hydrogen
fuelling
rate
NA
Hydrogen
costs
(delivered)
2.5
US$/kg
The European Commission (EC) has promoted some 200 hydrogen and fuel cells RD&D
activities across the European Union in the past 14 years for a total contribution of over
€550 million. In compliance with the commission aim to guarantee a sustainable,
competitive and reliable energy future to member states, the EC co-funded hydrogen
and fuel cells activities throughout the last four Framework Programmes (FP). During the
5 th FP (1999-2000) the EC created the European Hydrogen and Fuel Cell Technology
Platform (EHFC-TP) in order to accelerate the deployment of the technology in the
European market and bring together a common platform of key public and private
stakeholders. With the 7 th (2007-2013) FP‟s Joint Technology Initiative on hydrogen and
fuel cells (HFC-JTI), the EC took the further step establishing the Fuel Cell and
Hydrogen Joint Undertaking (FCH-JU) in 2008. This is intended to be the
implementation of the EHFC-TP experience. The FCH-JU is a public-private partnership
aiming to accelerate the deployment of hydrogen and fuel cell technology through a
series of targeted projects, in strict connection with industry. The FCH-JU works as a
long-term platform where the industry partners (represented by the Industry Group, IG),
research partners (represented by the N.ERGHY association) and European
Commission (JTI) meet for developing synergies (Figure 36, below). [JTI, 2010] [EC,
2010a] [EC, 2010b] [EC, 2010c].
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