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First hydrogen fuel station to open at Sainsbury’s branch

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Sainsbury’s is to become the first supermarket to offer a hydrogen fuel dispenser alongside its usual petrol and diesel fuel pumps. Located at its Hendon store in north west London, the new hydrogen fuel pump is expected to be in place by the end of the year and will be available to the general pu[.]. Fuel Cells Hydrogen cars'

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Cheaper hydrogen firm wins Shell Springboard Award

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Start-up business, Cella Energy has been crowned the Shell Springboard Award winners 2011 for its work developing a new method of storing hydrogen which could allow the fuel to replace petrol at a fraction of the cost of its fossil fuel counterpart.

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Burger King goes eco-friendly

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Hot on the heels of McDonald’s announcing it will install an electric vehicle charging station at one of its North Carolina restaurants (for more see our article ‘ McDonald’s embraces electric cars ‘), Burger King has jumped on the fast food green car bandwagon.

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An interview with Riversimple

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Riversimple shot to fame in June 2009 when they unveiled arguably the most exciting development for British green car technology yet; the two-seater Riversimple hydrogen prototype. The reason for it was that it was perceived to be difficult to store enough hydrogen and it is easier to carry a liquid fuel.

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Audi extends stop-start to A3 automatics

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TFSI petrol and 1.6 Audi claims this makes it the first automatics in the premium sector to benefit from the latest engine start-stop technology, which has already helped to cut emissions in manual transmission TDI versions to a sector-leading 109g/km. The new highly efficient 1.4

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Update on Mercedes electric vehicle concept

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It includes a 1.0litre three-cylinder turbocharged petrol engine and power output is 50kW at 3,500rpm. Charging the vehicle isn’t a painstaking task either – during rapid charging with a capacity of 20kW, the lithium-ion battery pack can store enough power within 30 minutes for a 31 mile cruising range.

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Slow start for charge of the electric cars - Times Online

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Related Links Government to offer £5,000 to boost green cars Electric shock as sales of green cars reverse With or without incentives, these are still likely to be a specialisedpurchase. Electric cars remain dependent on the development of better,affordable batteries. to charge overnight.