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Newsletter Issue 1 31st July 2006
– Investment in a New Energy Carrier
The energy for our current transport Some of the worlds’ leading automotive
system is largely derived from diesel and and technology development companies,
petrol produced from imported oil. The major energy companies, policy developers
Inside this issue use of these fuels in buses, trucks and cars and transport operators are jointly working
results in emissions of greenhouse gases in close partnership to lead Europe into the
Editorial P. 1 and air pollutants. development of a Twenty
Message from HyFLEET:CUTE First Century hydrogen-
Steering Committee
As our transport task based, transport system.
grows daily, there is a
Launch of
HyFLEET:CUTE P. 2 greater dependence on HyFLEET:CUTE will
Amsterdam - March 2006 external supplies of oil, see the operation of 47
and the production of hydrogen buses, both
FEATURE ARTICLE P. 3 more emissions that powered with Internal
EU-project HyFLEET:CUTE com- are harmful to human Combustion Engines
missions first two hydrogen ICE health and also lead and with Fuel Cells, in
buses in the German capital to climate change. regular public transport
A transport system service in 10 cities on
HyFLEET: CUTE
Communications P. 4 powered by Hydrogen three continents around
• Website
that is produced using the world. Each city site
• Future editions of the newsletter
renewable energy has has had to design, develop
• Strategy the potential to be and operate the hydrogen
• Events calendar ‘zero emissions’. This production, distribution
exciting paradigm shift and dispensing
• Project Partners
away from the system’s infrastructure required to
current ‘addiction’ to support the operation of
Heinrich Klingenberg
oil could decouple the buses.
mobility from climate
change and air quality concerns. The European Union expects that
HyFLEET:CUTE will bring us closer
The European Union has embarked on a to answering some major challenges
series of demonstration projects grouped including how to produce hydrogen
under the initiative “Hydrogen for economically and with minimal or no
Transport” that is part of the European negative environmental impact. Handling
Hydrogen and Fuel Cell Technology hydrogen safely and storing sufficient
Platform. In this initiative, around energy to achieve the required vehicle
200 hydrogen-powered vehicles will be range are also key challenges. And of
demonstrated. The aim is to improve course, reducing the cost of the technology
vehicle efficiency, infrastructure reliability while making it competitive in terms of
and develop clean fuel pathways to reliability and acceptability.
Hydrogen Refuelling Station - Berlin facilitate the understanding of our
community and our decision makers, The end vision pursued by the European
and to prepare even larger demonstration Union through HyFLEET:CUTE and its
projects that would bridge the gap between sister projects in “Hydrogen for Transport”
the current state of technology and the is to develop a totally clean transport
market. system for cities, without narrowing
modern society’s mobility standards.
HyFLEET:CUTE is part of this
Hydrogen Refuelling Station - Reykjavik “Hydrogen for Transport” initiative.
It is the world’s largest research and
demonstration project of hydrogen
powered buses. The project brings together Heinrich Klingenberg
31 partners from industry, Government, Chairman Steering Committee
academic and consulting organisations. HyFLEET:CUTE – Hydrogen for Transport Project
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THE BUS THAT SYMBOLISES A PARTNERSHIP
Mr Gertjan Kroon, Director, GVB
(Amsterdam’s Public Transport The HyFLEET:CUTE project
Company) became the first Chairman partnership will continue for four years.
Picture Gallery of the HyFLEET: The total cost of the project is
from Amsterdam CUTE Hydrogen €43 million, with the European
Partnership in Commission contributing €19
March 2006. To million.
symbolise this office,
he was presented The Project is co-ordinated by
with a model of Mrs Monika Kentzler, and is
an antique bus guided by a Project Steering
(see photo). The Committee. Taskforces on
partnership was Mr Kroon receiving the Bus Safety and Security and on
Delegates at Work
officially formed Communications and Learning
by the 31 partners have also been established.
in HyFLEET:CUTE when they
kicked off the project in Amsterdam. In his opening address to the March
Three months later the symbol of meeting, Mr Inigo Sabater from
the Chairmanship moved again. This the European Commission stressed
time Mr Thomas Necker, Director that a successful hydrogen strategy
Operations, BVG (Berlin) received required a serious long term research
the much-travelled bus at an informal and development effort by all
EC’s Inigo Sabater addresses the meeting
ceremony attended by most of the concerned. The Commission, through
partners. its €275 million “Hydrogen for
Transport” programme is investing in a
As part of the HyFLEET:CUTE comprehensive set of varying projects,
project, 27 hydrogen fuel cell buses with different systems and users of
have been in operation in nine cities Hydrogen.
around the world since January
2006. The buses had operated highly
successfully for the previous two years
as part of the CUTE, ECTOS and
HyFLEET:CUTE Co-ordinator Monika Kentzler
STEP projects.
HyFLEET:CUTE partners get together at Berlin Launch
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IN BERLIN THE FUTURE OF CLEAN MOBILITY HAS JUST BEGUN
Picture Gallery
from Berlin Launch
During the commissioning event from left to
right: Ernö Bartha (Member of the Managing
Board for Technical Applications, NEOMAN
Bus GmbH), Andreas Sturmowski (CEO,
Berliner Verkehrsbetriebe), Harald Wolf
(Mayor of Berlin and Senator for Economy,
Labour and Women), Jörg Hennerkes
(Minister of State, German Federal
Ministry for Transport, Housing and Rural
Development), Thierry Pflimlin (CEO, Total
Deutschland GmbH)
From left to right: Thierry Pflimlin (CEO, Total Deutschland GmbH), Sigmar Gabriel (German Environment Minister),
In Berlin, environmentally friendly The vehicles were deployed during the
hydrogen buses with internal FIFA World Cup 2006 in Germany.
combustion engines (ICE) will be part From 9 June to 9 July the buses
From left to right: Ernö Bartha (Member
of the Managing Board for Technical of the cityscape in the future. In the operated on behalf of FIFA’s Green
Applications, NEOMAN Bus GmbH), Thierry
Pflimlin (CEO, Total Deutschland GmbH), presence of the German Environment Goal initiative, in a dedicated shuttle
Sigmar Gabriel (German Environment
Minister), Andreas Sturmowski (CEO,
Minister Sigmar Gabriel, the Berlin service for journalists, between Berlin’s
Berliner Verkehrsbetriebe), Harald Wolf
(Mayor of Berlin and Senator for Economy,
public transport company “Berliner Tegel Airport and the Olympic Stadium.
Labour and Women), Jörg Hennerkes Verkehrsbetriebe“ (BVG) took over the Project partner TOTAL, which has
(Minister of State, German Federal Ministry for
Transport, Housing and Rural Development) first two hydrogen powered ICE buses developed the refuelling infrastructure
manufactured by project partner MAN in Berlin, provided support to FIFA’s
on 1 June 2006. environmental initiative.
After only 5 months in the making, “This is an important day for our
the commissioning of the buses is seen company and for public transport”, said
as one of the first major successes of the Technical Head of the Management
the very ambitious HyFLEET:CUTE Board of the manufacturer, Ernö Bartha,
project. during the commissioning event,
which was attended by high ranking
First 2 H2 ICE Buses line up in front of Berlin’s Over the next two years, MAN will
Brandenburg gate officials from the EC, as well as from
deliver a total of 14 hydrogen fuelled,
national and regional governments.
low floor city buses (12 m length) to
“For the first time, hydrogen buses with
Berlin. Through the introduction of
propulsion concepts almost ready for
these vehicles into its fleet, BVG will
serial production are entering into large
become the largest environmentally
scale, line operation. These buses emit
friendly hydrogen bus fleet operator in
much fewer pollutants than comparable
the world. Within the framework of the
combustion engines using fossil fuels.
project the buses will be operated on
We estimate this to be an important
normal scheduled service lines.
technological step into a sustainable
Poster stand celebrates Berlin’s achievements
future.”
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A WORD ABOUT HYFLEET:CUTE COMMUNICATIONS
Project Partners
Government Partners
GEF/UNDP China
FUEL CELL BUS PROJECT
Simon Whitehouse & Sointu Raisanen Henning Niemeyer
The Taskforce’s Berlin Connection
The Communications and Learning Taskforce in HyFLEET:CUTE is being led by Simon
Whitehouse from PE EUROPE GmbH (Stuttgart), ably assisted by Sointu Raisanen from
Eurokeys (Brussels) and Henning Niemeyer from MVV Consulting GmbH (Berlin).
Automotive Companies
Simon is the former Director of the Perth Fuel Cell Bus Project (STEP).
HyFLEET:CUTE has now in March in conjunction with
established a website (www. GreenFleet Australia, the European
global-hydrogen-bus-platform. Commission and the Government
com) This boasts a bright and of Western Australia and timed to
Transport Companies
breezy look, and informative coincide with the Australian Grand
sections for the general community Prix.
and for schools. It also provides
a communication channel for
project partners. A pamphlet
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Electronic newsletters will be Government of Western Australia
Energy Companies and Infrastructure Suppliers produced at least half yearly. To will host an Alternative Transport
subscribe to the e-newsletter, go to Energies Conference in Perth,
the website or click here. Please let Western Australia from September
any of your friends and colleagues 10 to 13, 2006
know if you think that they would http://www.dpi.wa.gov.au/
be interested. Future editions will greentransport/1199.asp
highlight project cities in turn, and
report achievements of the project. The European Hydrogen & Fuel
Cell Technology Platform Third
HyFLEET:CUTE will also work
General Assembly and Exhibition/
on informing and influencing
Demonstration Event 2006 will
decision makers and policy
Academic and Consulting take place on 4-6 October 2006 in
developers. It is important that
Brussels, Belgium. Visit website.
these key people understand
the implications of a potential
hydrogen based transport energy
system. What will this mean to
their areas of responsibility? What
do they need to plan for? What F1 McLaren-
actions do they need to take? Mercedes Driver
Kimi Raikkonen
This strategy got underway with checks out
the H2 Fuel
a Decision Makers Workshop Cell Bus in
Melbourne,
run in Melbourne, Australia Australia.
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