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Hydrogen Fuel Cell Bus Technology State of the Art Review
for Hydrogen and Fuel Cells (whose objective is the validation, demonstration, and
commercialization of the technology) and the Hydrogen Energy R&D Centre (whose
scope is to promote the development of hydrogen production and storage technologies).
Both organizations are sponsored by the Ministry of Education, Science, and
Technology (MEST) and the Ministry of Knowledge Economy (MKE), and promote
demonstrations through strategic public-private partnerships with key industrial partners
(mainly Korean firms).
South Korea has ambitious targets in moving toward a hydrogen economy, planning the
commercialisation of 50,000 fuel cell vehicles by 2020. Short-term targets plan 10
hydrogen refuelling stations and 20 FCBs by 2012 (IPHE 2010 workshop data). So far,
the National RD&D Organization for Hydrogen and Fuel Cells opened 8 hydrogen
refuelling stations 26 in major Korean cities and ran several Fuel cell vehicle
demonstrations. In this framework, Hyundai-KIA Motors ran the first Korean FCB
demonstration (4 buses, from 2006 to present) [ERC, 2010][NREL, 2009][KEI, 2008].
Table 18 MKE‟s key fuel cell vehicle targets by 2015
Authority Efficiency FC
durability
MKE NA
5,000
hours
Availability Fuel
Economy
NA
Range of
500km
Stack
cost
US$
41/kW
Hydrogen
fuelling
rate
Hydrogen
costs
(delivered)
NA NA
United Nation Development Program – Green Environment Facilities
The UNDP initiated an international Fuel Cell Bus programme in 2000 through the
Environmentally Sustainable Transport programme of UNDP‟s Green Environment
Facility project. The FCB programme had the scope to support commercial
demonstration of FCB and hydrogen facilities in the largest markets of the developing
world: Brazil (Sao Paulo), China (Beijing), Egypt (Cairo), India (New Delhi) and Mexico
(Mexico City). The project was ultimately realised only in Brazil (still in progress) and in
China (phase I completed; phase II in progress in Shanghai). The UNDP-GEF
programme is an international partnership co-funded by national governments, the
UNDP, local and international industry firms [UNDP, 2010].
dedicated for the Domestic Validation Program (80 FC cars, 5 industry partners) throughout
2009 – 2011, and up to US$77 million for the second phase of Domestic Fleet Demonstration
(>2,000 vehicles throughout 2009 – 2015).
26 According to Hyundai’s presentation held at IPHE Hydrogen Infrastructure Workshop held in
February 2010, there are 8 refuelling stations currently in operation and 12 by 2011.
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