| The Clean Energy Partnership (CEP) is a consortium comprising the corporate partners Aral, the BMW Group, Berliner Verkehrsbetriebe (BVG), Daimler Chrysler, Ford, GM/Opel, Hydro/GHW, Linde and Vattenfall Europe.
In late 2004 CEP will start a project to demonstrate the reliability of hydrogen in everyday motor vehicle operation.
The CEP will test various methods of hydrogen production as well as develop the hydrogen technologies for vehicles to mass production capability.
Additionally, liquid hydrogen will be delivered and stored. The hydrogen will be used in vehicles powered by a modified internal combustion engine or by fuel cell propulsion systems.
The CEP, constituted for a period of five years, is supported by the German Federal Government as part of the National Strategy on Sustainability.
The federal initiative is setting out to demonstrate future-oriented technologies and to determine which technological and economic requirements must be fulfilled for the use of alternative fuels in road transport. Establishing beneficial environmental effects is a crucial consideration.
The hydrogen must therefore be derived wherever possible from regenerative energy forms, e.g. from electricity generated by hydro or wind power. This will ensure that from the production process right up the the use on board the vehicle virtually no pollutants nor greenhouse gas emissions occur. |
