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First Honda Clarity Fuel Cell vehicles arrive in Europe as part of HyFIVE demo

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The first Honda Clarity Fuel Cell vehicles arrived in Europe last week. Honda has always been one of the leaders in the field of hydrogen fuel cell technology, with over 30 years of research and development behind us.

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Daimler, Honda, Toyota and Hyundai join in fuel cell vehicle road tour in Europe

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Daimler, Honda, Hyundai and Toyota will bring a total of 7 hydrogen fuel cell vehicles (FCEVs) to the European Hydrogen Road Tour 2012 to demonstrate the market readiness of the technology. H2 Logic Denmark will provide mobile refueling stations in some stopover cities.

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Honda targets new Guinness World Records title for fuel efficiency with 8,500-mile diesel drive across Europe

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Honda aims to win a new Guinness World Records title for fuel efficiency in an 8,500-mile (13,679 km) drive across all 24 contiguous EU countries in a 1.6 i-DTEC diesel engined Honda Civic Tourer. In the Civic Tourer, the 1.6

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DOE fuel cell technologies report finds largest growth in capacity in 2016 occurred in transportation

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The report notes that a major development in 2016 was the introduction of the third commercial fuel cell electric vehicle (FCEV), the Honda Clarity Fuel Cell, in Japan, California, the U.K. and Denmark.

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$70M H2ME project launches in Europe to deploy 325 fuel cell vehicles and 29 refueling stations

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Under H2ME, these initiatives will deploy 200 FCEVs, 125 fuel cell range-extended electric (FC RE-EVs) commercial vans and 29 new HRSs in 10 countries (Austria, Belgium, Denmark, France, Germany, Iceland, Netherlands, Norway, Sweden and the UK) by 2019.

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Ongoing market rollout for SAE hydrogen fueling standards

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BMW-Toyota, Daimler-Ford-Nissan, and Honda-GM. The J2601 standard hydrogen fueling protocol was validated in the field with real FCEVs and hydrogen stations in Europe (Denmark, Germany), North America (US), and Asia (Japan) by five original equipment manufacturers (OEMs). Earlier post.) Click to enlarge.

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SAE’s highest technical safety award goes to hydrogen fueling paper

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Mathison (Honda); Michael J. The figures below show an example of fueling testing in the laboratory (at Powertech in Canada) and in the field at a Shell Station with H2Logic Technology in Denmark. Therefore, a H70-T40 fueling dispenser enables this fast-fueling by providing hydrogen fuel at -40 ËšC to the fuel cell vehicle.

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