A new project called H2ME, aimed to aid the proliferation of hydrogen fuel cell vehicles in Europe has been set in motion. Its name is short for Hydrogen Mobility Europe and it’s now the largest such initiative on the continent.
The total investment the coalition behind it is intending to make is around €63- / $70-million, of which around half will come FCH Ju, short for Fuel Cells and Hydrogen Joint Undertaking, a separate project which has joined forces towards achieving the same goal.
It had announced plans to create some 50 fueling stations, but now what number has risen to 85 with the extra support of H2ME. The joint project has also set itself the goal of adding a fleet of 325 fuel-cell vehicles to the European scheme by the year 2019. Of the total number, 125 will be fuel-cell range-extenders light commercial vehicles.
In case you haven’t heard of the latter, they do apparently exist and are different to regular fuel cells. Test vehicles are already trying out the tech in Franche; it was developed by a company called Symbio FCell.
Via GreenCarCongress
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