Programme seeks to prepare UK for hydrogen vehicles
Companies developing hydrogen vehicles and infrastructure are to collaborate with government and establish a UK roadmap for deploying the technology.
Business minister Mark Prisk launched the new programme — named UKH2Mobility — at the Royal Society on 18 January in front of 13 industrial partners, including Air Products, Vauxhall Motors and Johnson Matthey.
The programme aims to ensure the UK benefits from the anticipated commercialisation of hydrogen fuel-cell vehicles in 2014–15 by creating a plan to encourage the manufacture and sale of the technology in this country.
Addressing the audience, Prisk said: ‘You all know that hydrogen fuel-cell technology has long been talked about. It has been tipped by many of the technology experts as being the genuine long-term alternative to conventional fuels.
‘UKH2Mobility’s role will be to identify the key barriers [facing the technology] and to help co-ordinate how they can then be surmounted.’
Prisk revealed that he expects to have a full roadmap in place by the end of this year.
He said: ‘The government is supporting this market by investing £400m to support the development, demonstration and deployment of these vehicles.’
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