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Los Angeles for 2006NHA last week nailed down Long Beach,Calif. for next year’s national meeting.

The dates are March 11-16, 2006. Watch for New York City in 2007 and

San Francisco in 2008.

President Bush may not make it here thisweek, but Florida Gov. Jeb Bush and Bill Fordwere among those helping break ground for aChevronTexaco fueling station in Orlando.Florida’s eyeing a generous package of taxbreaks for hydrogen industry developmentand for sales of hydrogen energy products.

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Ovonic’s EnablersStan Ovshinsky’s ECD Ovonic is pro-moting enabling technologies includingsolid hydride storage and a brand newregenerative fuel cell. Page 7

Likened to Apollo...

Curious About California?Mitchell Pratt of Clean Energy isn’there to promote hydrogen, but ratherwhat he says is the only way to make itreal: via natural gas.

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A GM fuel cell car fills up at Benning Road in northeastWashington, at the first U.S. retail station to feature H2.Fuel and dispensing hardware are provided by Air Products.NHA Expo vehicles are fueling there this week.

NHA 2005 gets underwaywith a new drive toward thehydrogen economy likened tothe Apollo program of the1960s: North Dakota SenatorByron Dorgan has proposed a10-year, $7.9 billion hydrogen

research program. His bill would boost President Bush’shydrogen program fivefold.

“We have only just begun to explore the potential ofhydrogen fuel cell technology,” Dorgan says.

“This bill would help jump-start the industry.” This week’s meeting in Washington boasts the

biggest-ever H2 vehicle ride-and-drive, too. Page 3

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Florida H2 Challenge

Shannon Baxter-Clemmons, who’s leading theCalifornia Hydrogen Highway effort on behalf ofGovernor Arnold Schwarzenegger and CalEPA chiefAlan Lloyd, is the keynote speaker at the NationalHydrogen Association’s Awards Luncheon on Thursday.

Racing Into the Future – BMW has brought its record-setting H2R with hydrogen-fueled monster V-12 to NHA 2005.‘Technology gleaned at the track often ends up in regular production BMW models,’ says the company, which hasvowed to make its flagship 760i with the same 6-liter engine, hydrogen-fueled, available to the public. Page 5

Man with a Mission

The hydrogen future is certain. But why wait 20 years for it to arrive?

With natural gas vehicles, we have developed a powerful bridge technology that leads directly to thefuture, today. We are building a broad, gaseous fuelinginfrastructure for natural gas and HCNG that will evolveseamlessly to the hydrogen economy. We are working totransition society from its petroleum addiction to preparefor and embrace the hydrogen future.

As we seek to make this transformation throughpublic policy initiatives, increased funding, infrastructuregrowth and further technology development, why wait?With natural gas, the future is now.

How is this possible? Natural gas (CH4) is mostly hydrogen, with a

broad range of vehicles available today. HCNG, the new20/80 hydrogen/natural gas fuel blend, which can beused in today’s efficient natural gas vehicles without any modifications, brings pollutants to near zero. Until the daycomes when we can economically make hydrogen fromwater, reforming or separating it from natural gas as thefeedstock is the most efficient way to produce hydrogen.

Get on the road today with natural gas for vehicles — the springboard to the hydrogen future.

562.493.2804www.cleanenergyfuels.comNorth America’s leader in clean transportation

Natural Gas for Vehicles — Springboard to Hydrogen

CleanEnergy ®

More than 100 auto, energy, fuelcell, component and technologycompanies, universities and govern-ment agencies believe the hydrogenfuture is coming fast.

They are the members of theNational Hydrogen Association.

They are investing in their andour future, attracting capital toexpand, and developing customersto sustain their development.

They are deploying learningdemonstrations, validating conceptsand putting their products in cus-tomer hands.

In the last year we have seen asubstantial expansion in portableand stationary applications as wellas over 200 hydrogen vehiclesdeployed around the world. Thesevehicles use liquid and compressedgaseous hydrogen in the tank. Theyuse fuel cells and internal combus-tion engines for propulsion, and

some of them are hybridwith a battery or ultracapaci-tors for peak performance.

A dozen or more newhydrogen fueling stationshave opened this past year.

The first retail combinedgasoline and hydrogen fuel-ing stations opened inSingapore and then inWashington, D.C.

Hydrogen fuel cell sys-tems kept the only powergoing in Maryland and in theBahamas for secure loadswhen the grid went down inthe hurricane devastation.

New small-scale reformers arebeing tested by several companies.Cold weather testing of a hydrogenfuel cell car and a hydrogen ICEbus has been completed.

A university has licensed its fuelcell technology to a remote powerequipment manufacturer.

State and regional initiatives aredeveloping to ensure that theirareas are among the first to enjoymore secure and environmentallyattractive energy use. They also seenew businesses developing and jobsbeing created.

As just one example, a new alter-native energy R&D center isstarting up in Michigan.

Please see what our membershave to offer at the HydrogenExpo–USA exhibition, and enjoythe 16th National Hydrogen AssociationAnnual Hydrogen Conference.

Chairman, Board of DirectorsNational Hydrogen Association

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‘Substantial Expansion’ SeenAs We Convene in Washington

More Vehicles Here Than Ever,An Increasing Sense of Urgency

National Hydrogen Association chairman Mike Davis

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“We have more hydrogen vehi-cles at this show than have everbeen together at one point,”says Jef f Ser fass,the president of theNational HydrogenAssociation .

“We have buses,we have cars, wehave at least tenthat will be availablefor the ride-and-drive” (today andtomorrow).

There were 18 vehiclescom-mitted to NHA2005 as ofShowTimes presstime: threebuses, ten ride-and-drive vehi-cles, five on exhibitors’ stands.

NHA 2005 also kicks off asCongress is looking at boostingPresident Bush’s hydrogen andfuel cell research program nearlyfive-fold, with Senator ByronDorgan of North Dakota callingfor an ef for t to rival NASA’s

Apollo moon program. Fuel cell leaders are touting a

message of inevitability—fossilfuels are getting toorare and far too valu-able to burn—and acommon concernthat momentum notbe lost.

Another theme thisyear? A growing real-ization that naturalgas will be key tomaking hydrogen’s

promise come true. Mosthydrogen is made from naturalgas today. Moreover, the peoplewho can handle natural gas, apressurized or liquefied cryo-genic fuel, are the ones whoknow how to handle hydrogen.

Familiarity with natural gasamong fire of ficials, amongmechanics, and among con-sumers, they say, will speed thetransition to hydrogen.

Ballard unveiled itsTechnology RoadMap yesterday, out-lining the fuel celldeveloper’s commit-ment to demonstratecommercially viablefuel cell stack tech-nology by 2010.

The Road Mapcomprises technologytrend lines and targets for dura-

bility, freeze-start, cost,and power density.

The Vancouver com-pany says its Road Map“validates Ballard’stechnology leadershipand five-year pathtowards non-compro-mised fuel cell stacktechnology per form-ance.”

Ballard is at Booth 720 here.

Ballard Road Map Is Released

Officials of General Motors arespelling it out: environment aside,fuel cells will be necessary if today’sbig automakers want to be bigautomakers tomorrow. Oil will be

too costly to maintain large vehiclesales in any other way.

GM detailed progress on solidmetal hydride storage this month inCalifornia. See Page 9

GM Says It’s Got No Choice

Ballard’s Dennis Campbell

NHA’s Jeff Serfass

The natural-gas Honda Civic GX has it all. And then some. The GX uses no gasoline and generates nearly zero

emissions. It doesn’t rely on oil, imported or otherwise, so it helps support our government’s energy-security goals.

And, while we’re on the subject of saving oil, the GX only needs an oil change once every 10,000 miles.* And because

the EPA recognizes it as the cleanest-burning internal-combustion vehicle on the planet, the GX can also help you

comply with federal EPACT or local clean-air mandates. So, go ahead, put the GX to work for you, and you can

experience fuel-cost savings, the value of tax incentives,† access to carpool lanes** and the goodwill of your

community for being so environmentally conscious. Of course, you’ll also save energy. Yours

and the world’s. For more information, log on to civicgx.com or call us at 1-888-CC-Honda.

The Civic GX

Natural-GasVehicle

Don’t waste your energy on anything else.

*Refer to your owner’s manual. †For more detailed information, please consult an IRS tax representative and/or official IRS publications. **Check local and state laws. ©2005 American Honda Motor Co., Inc. civicgx.com

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Ballard Claims Big PEM GainsBallard (Booth 720) is claiming progress in fuel cell freezestart capability, durability and cost reduction “without com-promising performance.” The company claims an improvedstack design that can start repeatedly at -20C (-4F) andoperate for more than 2,000 hours at substantially reducedcost and no performance tradeoff. “We achieved a tech-nology hat trick,” Ballard R&D VP Charles Stone says in arelease. “We believe we are the first fuel cell developer tosuccessfully demonstrate these key technology milestonessimultaneously in a single fuel cell stack, [and are] well onour way to meeting our goals for a commercially viable fuelcell stack by 2010.” Costs were lowered in large part byreducing platinum catalyst loading by some 30%.

Compressors Need Not ApplyMilford, Conn.-based Avalence is promoting an electrolysis-based hydrogen unit that uses a simple fluid electrolyte andyields fuel at high pressure—eliminating the need for a com-pressor, even for 10,000 psi. “This single innovationsignificantly reduces the cost of our product lines and, per-haps more importantly, eliminates a complex and highmaintenance component found in all other high-pressureelectrolyzers,” the company says. Avalence seeks to ally itselfwith companies involved in hydrogen infrastructure, renew-able energy use, and fuel cell applications.

Hydrogen at the HAMMERThe Pacific Northwest National Laboratory in Richland,Wash. is planning to add hydrogen to the training cur-riculum at its Hazardous Materials Management andEmergency Response, or HAMMER facility. HAMMER’sAwareness-Level Hydrogen Safety Training curriculum isaimed at fire fighters and emergency responders, fire mar-shals, building code officials, regulators, fleet managers andelected officials. Such training amounts to “a very importantelement in assuring people that hydrogen is just anothersubstance,” says National Hydrogen Association presidentJeff Serfass, who toured HAMMER last week. NHAchairman Mike Davis is associate laboratory director forPNNL’s Energy Science and Technology Directorate.

ISE HHICE Bus Said First EverSan Diego’s ISE Research reports completion of twomonths of cold-weather trials of its HHICE (hybridhydrogen internal combus-tion engine) drivetrain, saidto be the world’s first in atransit bus, in Winnipeg.The 40-foot New Flyerwith a modified V10 enginefrom Ford successfullyendured temperatures as low as minus 30, and after stops inMichigan, New York, and New Jersey is at NHA 2005 thisweek. ISE is active in fuel cell and other electric drive busestoo (see page 12).

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Arno Evers and his Fair-PR organiza-tion are again helping companies taketheir hydrogen fuel cell messages to alarger audience, as they will host aspecial section in Hall 13 of theHannover Fair, which is being heldApril 11-15 in Hannover, Germany.

Russian President Vladimir Putinwill join German Chancellor GerhardSchröder to open the Fair on April 10.

The Hannover Fair is expected todraw more than 6,000 exhibitors from

60 countries taking up more than 2million square feet of space.

Exhibit space via Fair-PR starts at$11,900.

Evers is also hosting a Hydrogen &Fuel Cells on Their Way to Commerciali-zation conference on April 12, and anetworking evening on April 14.

Fair-PR is working China’s Shang-hai International Industry Fair, too:November 10-15.

Check it all out at www.fair-pr.com

Next Stop on Your H2 Hwy?

BMW, an enginemaker amongautomakers, comes to NHA 2005believing that hydrogen-fueledinternal combustion engines should beused for motive power, with fuel cellsfor auxiliary power units to supportvehicle electronics and accessories.

BMW also comes to Washingtonwith high-level plans to make ahydrogen- and gasoline-fueled luxurysedan based on an existing Series 7vehicle available to the public.

On BMW’s dis-play (Booth 210) isthe BMW H2R,described as “oneof the first of a newbreed of racecars

specially adapted to run on liquidhydrogen fuel.” The H2R set nineinternational speed records at theMiramas Grounds in France this pastSeptember, the company reports.

“The H2R’s mighty 6.0-liter V-12engine,” the firm says, “which draws

on BMW’s advanced Valvetronicand Double-VANOS technology, isbased on the 760i’s gasoline-fueledpowerplant. This H2-powered highperformer generates 232 horsepower,helping it to achieve a top speed ofover 187 mph.

“Just as technology gleaned at thetrack often ends up in regular produc-tion BMW models, the lessons BMWhas learned in building the H2R willsurely find their way in the hydrogencars of the near future.”

The $110K 760i, which has thesame V-12 engine as the H2R, is thelikeliest model to be released as ahydrogen-gasoline bi-fuel vehicle. It’sdesignated, at least for now, the H7.

BMW Likes Hydrogen for ICEs,Fuel Cells for Auxiliary Power

The BMW 760: an H2 version is planned.

UTC Fuel Cells (Booth 230) is pro-moting its cold-weather-capable PEMcells here at NHA 2005.

The United Tech-nologies unit suppliesfuel cells for vehiclesincluding GeorgetownUniversity buses, devel-opmental Santa Fe andTucson fuel cell sport utility vehiclesat Hyundai, Nissan’s X-Trail fuel cellSUV, and Van Hool buses with

Siemens Elfa drives by San Diego’sISE Research.

The first cell fromUTC for the Van Hoolsis expected in about amonth, says ISE presi-dent Dave Mazaika.

UTC supplies itsPEM fuel cells for sta-

tionary applications under thePureComfort, PureThermal andPureCell brandnames.

UTC: Cars, Buses, Stationary

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Europe’s Formula Zero RacingNHA 2005 sponsors Hydrogenics and Shell are among thebackers of Formula Zero, a Dutch effort to establishhydrogen fuel cells on the competition go-kart circuit inEurope. Designers and FormulaZero founders Godert vanHardenbroek and Eelco Rietveldwant to exhibit the technologyalong the lines of the “flying cir-cuses” of the early 20th century:those events, they say, “kept the spirit of flying alive whencommercial aviation was not yet feasible [and, like hydrogenfuel cells] heralded a technology that promised to have atremendous impact on the future.” A prototype racer with aHyPM10 cell from Hydrogenics, with Maxwell ultracapaci-tors for acceleration/burst power, has been built and is tocompete later in the year. Check out formulazero.biz

Canadian Hydrogen HighwayFuel Cells Canada (Booth 130) has details of efforts to estab-lish a Hydrogen Highway in the Vancouver region,

connecting to Victoria and theWhistler ski resort, in time for the2010 Winter Olympics. NaturalResources Canada calls theproject “a metaphor for the transi-tion to the hydrogen economyand a sustainable future.” It’s seen

too as providing data for international codes and standards.

‘A Fundamental Decoupling’“We are now seeing a fundamental decoupling of the naturalgas from the oil price,” Jörgen Henningsen of the EuropeanCommission, who is spending a year at Harvard, said at therecent WestStart-Calstart Clean Heavy Duty Vehiclesmeeting in Southern California late last month. “The tech-nology is there,” Henningsen said. “The resources are there.There is a significant likelihood that we will see anincreasing advantage for compressed natural gas in the yearsto come.” Henningsen helped craft the European target of10 percent NGVs by 2020, with natural gas seen as a clearprecursor to a hydrogen economy.

GM Hydrogen Fork Lift TestsGeneral Motors is not only developing fuel cell vehicles butis looking to use them too, and to that end is evaluating apair of Hyster forklifts with H2 fuel cell packs at the GMplant in Oshawa, Ont., which hasabout 500 forklifts. A 10-kilowattunit from Hydrogenics (Booth 345)replaces the lifts’ conventional bat-teries; Maxwell ultracapacitors allow40-kilowatts of burst power, andthere is none of the end-of-chargepower loss common to battery elec-tric trucks. Hydrogenics is supplyinga HyLyzer fueling unit too.

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Florida is considering an aggressiveprogram to foster the use of hydrogenin the state, including tax credits tocover 75 percent of investment costs(with no cap) and a full exemptionfrom sales taxes on hydrogen products,both to be valid through mid-2009.

“The governor wanted to do some-thing bold,” Allen Bedwell said at theCalifornia Hydrogen Business Coun-cil’s general meeting late last month.

The week before, with Bill Ford onhand, Gov. Jeb Bush broke ground fora ChevronTexaco hydrogen fuelinginstallation in Orlando.

“We are encouraging new corpo-rate investment, creating new jobs andprotecting the state’s air quality,” Bushsaid. Three new Florida hydrogenprojects were announced last week.

“It’s great to see what they’redoing,” California EPA Secretary AlanLloyd told ShowTimes. “It’s good tohave that competition.”

Bedwell is deputy secretary for reg-ulatory programs and energy withFlorida’s Department of Environ-mental Protection. Gov. Bush has ear-marked $15 million for this budget toencourage investment, his office says.

“We desperately need to establishenergy independence,” Bedwell said atthe CaHBC meeting hosted byAmerican Honda in Torrance.

The ideal of making clean energyonsite took on added urgency fol-lowing this past autumn’s spate ofhurricanes, Bedwell said.

Florida is concentrating itshydrogen development efforts in theOrlando area to build what he called“critical mass” there.

Florida earlier this year became thefirst customer for Ford’s new 12-pas-senger hydrogen shuttle bus, orderingeight. The vehicle has a range of up to150 miles on one compressed H2 fill-up, and near-zero emissions.

Florida Eyes Bill Backed by BushFor Generous New H2 Tax Credits

Expect an announcement from California officials—includingGov. Arnold Schwarzenegger—on the progress of the HydrogenHighway there. New maps showing hydrogen fueling stations

clustered in Los Angeles and the San Francico Bay Area willreflect thinking evolved from the state’s original every-

20-miles approach. The new network will build onan existing natural gas fueling infrastructure.

The map at left, with existing stations ingreen, is from the California Fuel Cell

Partnership. CaFCP’s revamped website,fuelcellpartnership.org, features an interac-

tive list of hydrogen fueling stations.

Florida Environmental Protection Secretary Colleen Castille wields a shovel withGreg Vesey of ChevronTexaco Technology Ventures, Florida Gov. Jeb Bush, Fordchairman and CEO Bill Ford, Florida Sen. Lee Constantine, and Dale Oliver ofProgress Energy at February hydrogen groundbreaking ceremony in Orlando.

California Hydrogen Highway

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Until now largely a collection of volunteers, thefour-year-old California Stationary Fuel CellCollaborative is moving to establish itself as amore structured organization, with dues and abudget.

In what they’re calling a bold step forward,organizers released a Roadmap to an UpdatedStrategic Plan and invited stakeholders to sign onto a new advisory panel.

“Fuel cells have greatpotential to improve thestate’s economic andenvironmental health,and facilitate the devel-opment of the CaliforniaHydrogen Highway,”says CaSFCC co-chairand director of theNational Fuel CellResearch Center (at UCIrvine) Scott Samuelsen.

“But the early marketfor deployment is chal-lenged by high capitalcosts, undemonstrateddurability and reliability,

and the regulatory and policy hurdles associatedwith distributed generation.

“The strategic plan is designed to advance thedeployment and commercialization of stationaryfuel cells,” Samuelsen says.

The CaSFCC plan includes identifying andaddressing technology hurdles; establishing andimplementing a systemic demonstration plan;

establishing and implementinglarge scale deployment projects;supporting the HydrogenHighway initiative; identifying,addressing and implementingpolicy, regulatory, and legislativeincentives; conducting key dis-tributed generation and life cyclecost analysis studies; and devel-oping and implementing anoutreach program.

Industry members are invited toparticipate at any of three levels.

CaSFCC is co-chaired by Dr.Alan Lloyd, who has just takenover as California EPA secretaryafter running the agency’s AirResources Board.

California’s Stationary GroupBegins to Organize in Earnest

Toyota’s Bil l Reiner t ischairing a session on novelhydrogen storage techniquesThursday afternoon.

Toyota notes that storageis emerging as one of thekey—and more widely per-ceived—challenges facingthe nascent hydrogen fuelcells industry.

Joining Reiner t will beLivio Gambone of PowertechLabs, Matthew Hall of AlfredUnivers i ty, and Ra jeshAhluwalia of the ArgonneNational Lab.

Toyota brought one of 10FCHVs (fuel cell hybrid vehi-cles) deployed in the U.S. tothe NHA 2005 ride-and-drive.

Toyota’s Tackling H2 Storage

“Picture this as a sponge,” says EnergyConversion Devices-Ovonic founderStanford Ovshinsky.

He maintains thatsolid metal hydridestorage of hydrogen isa far better bet thanhigh-pressure tanks,which will always poseengineering and publicacceptance challenges.

ECD’s once-quietOvonic Fuel Cell unit(Booth 360) unveiled a fuel cell with ametal hydride anode that allows thedevice to function as a battery at theCanadian Hydrogen Association meet-ing in Toronto last year. The designholds potential to greatly simplify thedesign of future fuel cell vehicles withregenerative braking capability.

“This fuel cell can be run backwardsand store energy,” said Ovonic FCpresident and COO Dennis Corrigan.“We are a battery with watt-hours per

kilogram inside the stack,” he said. Ovshinsky endorses hydrogen-

fueled internal combus-tion engines as a meansof achieving near-zeroemiss ions with tech-nology available now, butdescr ibed his f i rm’sregenerative fuel cells aspart of a “complete loop”necessary to make hydro-gen a reality.

“Do it. Prove it. Showit. Make it affordable,” Ovshinsky toldwould-be hydrogen commercializers ata general meeting of the CaliforniaHydrogen Business Council late lastmonth. “Everybody knows it’s the ulti-mate fuel,” Ovshinsky said of hydrogen.

“It’s safe, it’s the future, it’ll make abetter world.”

“It isn’t just pollution, and it isn’t justclimate change,” Ovshinsky said.

“It’s war over oil. The greatest pollu-tant of all is war.”

Ovonic Solid Hydride Storage,Plus a Regenerative Fuel Cell

That’s Jim Press riding shotgun in a Toyota FCHV, or fuel cell hybridvehicle. He is executive VP and COO of Toyota Motor Sales, USA.

Ovonic founder Stan Ovshinsky

Alan LloydScott Samuelsen

Stationary FC group now starting to move.

Honda’s modern gasoline vehicles are Good, itshybrids are Better, the dedicated-CNG CivicGX is the Best, and hydrogen fuel cell vehiclesare the Ultimate.

That’s the latest summation of the automaker’shydrogen transition strategy, as espoused by altfuels chief Steve Ellis.

Fuel cell vehicles will obviously need newfueling infrastructure, which is one reasonHonda is sticking with its dedicated-compressednatural gas Civic GX—said to be the world’scleanest car on a well-to-wheels basis.

Honda has begun offering the Civic GX notonly to fleets but to consumers. Honda isbankrolling Canada’s FuelMaker in developing ahome CNG fueling appliance, dubbed Phill.

The idea is to get people accustomed to agaseous fuel, using vehicles that are available

today. In that way, El l i ssays, you get “a large class ofapprentices ready to step intohydrogen... Phill users arehydrogen apprentices.”

Phill goes on sale at 17Honda dealers in Californiathis week. It will debut laterthis spring in Europe.

“CNG is the pathway tohydrogen,” Ellis says, noting“the same tank vendors [and]the same tubing vendors.

“Compression and storage,”he says, “is the same.”

FuelMaker’s Phill is promotedas readily adaptable to the ele-mental fuel. Honda is working with Plug Poweron a hydrogen fueler for consumers too.

A new installation at Plug’sheadquarters in Latham, N.Y.will be available for fueling twoHonda FCX fuel cell vehiclesrecently leased to the state, tobe based in Albany.

(Plug is showing the benefits of distributedgeneration there too, as a second-generationHome Energy Station will make hydrogen—from natural gas—for electricity generation viafuel cells, with process heat utilized as well.)

Honda has placed more than a dozen of itsFCX vehicles in the U.S. and Japan, and said ear-lier this year that it would lease the hydrogen fuelcell car to consumers for $500 per month.

Among the deliveries were the first FCX carswith Honda’s own fuel cell stacks (to New York),for which it claims numerous manufacturing,performance and durability advantages.

Aromatic electrolyte membranes yield greaterdurability and power generation at temperaturesranging from minus 4F to 203F, Honda says. A

stamped metal separator structure and newlydeveloped electrolyte membranes serve to

reduce the number of parts byalmost 50%. The combinationmakes the Honda stacks sim-pler. They are expected towork better in very coldweather, last longer, and to

make for a vehicle that’s 10% more efficient. Honda is using ultracapacitors for the regen-

erative braking function in its latest FCXes.

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Honda Blazes the Natural Gas-to-H2 TrailSteve Ellis Alt Fuel Vehicles ManagerAmerican Honda (Booth 520)

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This past year saw delivery of more than a dozen Honda FCXfuel cell vehicles in Japan and the U.S.

The most recent placements were in Las Vegas, where thevehicles will experience extreme desert heat (and whereMayor Oscar Goodman said he’d likely appropriate one for hisown use), and Albany, N.Y., where there is ample opportunityfor sub-zero evaluation: New York got the first FCXes withHonda’s own, more cold-weather-capable fuel cell stacks.

FCX cars in Hokkaido will also see sub-freezing conditions. Los Angeles and nearby Chula Vista have FCXes too, as

does the South Coast Air Quality Management District, LA’sclean air agency. San Francisco has the first two placed by aregular Honda dealer.

Honda Places FCXes, with Its Cells & Ballard’s, in Hot & Cold Climes

Honda fuel cell vehicles are being tested inwinter conditions in Hokkaido, Japan and inupstate New York.

American Honda, which claims braggingrights to the first road-certified fuel cellvehicle (note regular Swiss license plates onthe vehicle above), the FCX, says it willlease the hydrogen-fueled car to anyone whowants one for just $500 per month.

You Can Drive One AwayFCX debuted in Europe at Geneva Auto Show.

Las Vegas Ward 4 Councilman Larry Brownwith Honda VP Daniel Bonawitz (center)with Las Vegas Mayor Oscar Goodman.

Honda sees today’s clean vehicles leading to zero emissions tomorrow.

“The human challengesmay be greater than the

technical ones.”Honda VP Dan Bonawitz

American Honda alt fuels chief Steve Ellis in frontof ShowTimes editor Rich Piellisch’s house in SanFrancisco after delivering two of the vehicles toMayor Gavin Newsom last year.

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Experts from the natural gas vehi-cles industry are working toward aworkable system of world stan-dards for hydrogen.

“It’s a hugeyawn for a lot ofpeople but it’sthe hear t andsoul of gettingthis stuf f intothe market,” saysJef f Seisler, an

American who heads the Amster-dam-based European Natural GasVehicle Association.

“It’s a huge imperative.” And standards are just a start,

Seisler says, noting that just asmuch effort is necessary to makesure they are the basis of real-world regulations that work.

Groups like ISO develop stan-dards, which are codified into regu-lations by governments and the UN.

“We are working with industryto provide consensus and thenbring it to the United Nations,”says Randy Dey, president of CCSGlobal, of Toronto.

His firm can provide companieswith guidance through the con-fusing world of internationalaccords. Hydrogen standards arenow being developed through theTC 197 committee of ISO, forexample, with various sub-designa-

tions for things like electrolysis,reformers, and storage devices.

“We believe that standardsfacilitate technology,” Dey says.“Everyone gains.”

His next TC197 will be atthis year’s FuelCell Seminar inPalm Springs,which runs Nov-ember 14-18.

Gas Standards Experts Tackle Similar Issues for Hydrogen

If it’s serious about hydrogen, the federal govern-ment should embark immediately on a fleetconversion effort specifying gaseous fuel vehi-cles—starting with proven natural gas andmoving to hydrogen blends and hydrogen—specifying too that automakers supply vehicles

with compressed fueltanks as an integral part ofthe chassis rail structure.

“We need them buyingdedicated natural gas anddedicated hydrogen vehi-cles.” So says MitchellPratt, public affairs andbusiness development VP

for Los Angeles-based Clean Energy Fuels. Clean Energy, the former Pickens Fuels, has

built capacity and bought it, and claims now tobe the leading supplier of natural gas fuel forvehicles in North America, with more than 160fueling facilities in service.

“It’s going to be companies like mine that aregoing to figure out the economic framework tomake this work,” Pratt says of hydrogen.

He’s here at NHA 2005 with a message: nat-

ural gas is the best path to ahydrogen future–and therewon’t be a hydrogen futurewithout a more activistpolicy posture.

“The whole notion offuel neutrality is not areasonable or sensibleapproach for a society thatis facing an energy crisis,”he says. “Fuel neutralityequals no progress.”

“There is a supply-of-oilreality,” he told ShowTimes.

“The ability to increaseour refining capacity is limited. We need tostart embracing a new energy dynamic in theUnited States.

“We need something to balance our growingthirst for petroleum fuels.

“We have a long-term need to start this transi-tion now,” Pratt continues. The alternative? “Ahuge economic train wreck.”

The federal government has thus far missedthe chance to establish a viable gaseous fuelsindustry, he says, buying flex- and bi-fuel vehi-cles to meet alt fuel fleet requirements andfailing to run them on the alternative fuel.

“If we can’t resolve the issues on CNG,”says Pratt,” we’re never going to make it tohydrogen.”

With few exceptions, Pratt says, automakersdon’t appreciate the full ramifications of a hydro-gen changeover, which will require “full in-tegration of every Mom-and-Pop auto shop.”

“Fundamental acceptance into society isnot going to happen quickly and the cost ofupgrading every facility is not going to beabsorbed quickly,” he warns.

“It’s essential that government fleets start step-ping up and ordering dedicated gaseous fuel

vehicles.” They could run on CNG, hydrogen,or blends of the two. The dedicated fuel tankchassis structure (such as that found on Europe’spopular Fiat Multipla,shown here) allows formore fuel to be storedunobstrusively on avehicle, something that’snecessary with CNG andwill be even more necessary with hydrogen.

Drawing on existing NGV fueling installa-tions and experience is “a sensible approach togrowing an infrastructure,” Pratt says: “a way tosystematically integrate this into society.”

“It’s misleading to think you’re going to jumpstraight to hydrogen,” he says, in reference toautomakers (think Ford) that have droppedNGVs. “To drop gaseous fuel products alto-gether and say we’re going to start makinghydrogen internal combustion engines is a farce.”

“Natural gas is a key play and we need to startas a society to embrace it,” Pratt says.

“We already have an established infrastructureand the fuel costs less.

“Natural gas is the natural transition to thehydrogen future. It is the lowest cost option today.”

Mitchell Pratt

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Clean Energy Sounds Import Clarion CallMitchell Pratt, VPMarketing & Business Development Clean Energy Fuels, Inc.

Clean Energy dispenses CNG and hydrogen-CNG blends at SunLine Transit,plans to do the same in Vancouver, and seeks partners to do even more.

Lessons to LearnClean Energy’s Mitchell Pratt will talk aboutLessons Learned during years of natural gasvehicle market development in a conferencesession here Thursday afternoon.

Steve Ellis of Honda will moderate.Theother scheduled panelists are MichaelMackey of General Physics Corp, AllenSpivey of the Gas Technology Institute, andRich Kolodziej of Washington’s NGV Coalition.

Randy DeyJeff Seisler

Air Products & Chemicals is working to parlaydecades of experience in industrial hydrogen, thebulk of it made from natural gas, into a leader-ship position in hydrogen fuel for vehicles.

“The key to rolling out the energyinfrastructure,” says Dave Mc Carthy,the company’s future energy solutionscommercial manager, “is tapping intothe industrial infrastructure.”

Air Products has mobile fuelingunits to support today’s vehicle testprojects, where it is already applyingits own dispensing technology. Thelatest mobile fueler, the HF 150, has capacity of150 kilograms of hydrogen, which it can pump at350 bar, or 5,000 psi.

Air Products can supply hydrogen madeonsite from natural gas too, using reformersfrom other suppliers and applying its own PSA(pressure swing absorption) purification tech-nology.

Besides supporting NHA 2005 this week—that’s an Air Products dispenser at Shell’sBenning Road station here in Washington—Air Products has supplied onsite hydrogen atnumerous trade exhibitions and public events,including the most recent world electric vehiclesmeeting in Long Beach, Calif.

Benning Road is the first public-accesshydrogen station at a retail gasoline station inNorth America.

"This is a milestone demonstration project,”Air Products future energy solutions director

Tama Copeman said in a release when it opened,“North America's first integrated hydrogen andgasoline station.”

The world’s first is at a BP station inSingapore. Both employ “Air Products tech-nology that’s wrapped in the customer’s brand,”Mc Carthy says.

Air Products mobil fuelers made it possible fora Honda fuel cell car to be driven from LosAngeles to its new home in Las Vegas last

month, where an Air Products instal-lation will be used to fuel it for MayorOscar Goodman.

Air Products supplies hydrogen tothe California Fuel Cell Partnershipin West Sacramento and to the nearbyInstitute of Transportation Studies atUC Davis, to the Santa Clara ValleyTransportation Authority in Milpitas,

Calif. for three Gillig buses with Ballardfuel cells, and to researchers across thecountry at H2VRC, the Hybrid and HydrogenVehicle Research Center at the PennsylvaniaTransportation Institute, part of Penn State.

“We’ve got more than 30 hydrogen fuelingstations in operation,” Mc Carthy says. “Webelieve we’re the leader.”

Air Products maintains a website with exten-sive information on hydrogen as a vehicle fuel.The company is active in training too, with aprogram dubbed KnowH2ow.

But don’t look for rosy accounts of hydrogen’sprospects in the firm’s latest annual report.

There is, in fact, no mention of hydrogen as avehicle fuel at all.

Yet Air Products will make between $850 mil-lion and $900 million in capital outlays this year,“driven primarily by the growing hydrogenmarket.” How so? The firm is already smack in

the middle of successful efforts to reduce vehicleemissions.

Most of the hydrogen Air Products sells torefiners, produced in more than 60 large-scalefacilities, is used to remove sulfur and other con-taminants from conventional fuels.

As such the company already has a clean airimpact that dwarfs anything happening in thealternative vehicles sector of today.

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Air Products’ Current Capability Is KeyDave Mc CarthyCommercial ManagerFuture Energy SolutionsAir Products & Chemicals (Booth 250)

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A Series 200 hydrogen storage and fuelingdispenser from Air Products is in place justsix and a half miles from NHA 2005, at a Shellstation at 3355 Benning Road, off I-295 innortheast Washington toward Silver Spring.

NHA 2005 ride-and-drive vehicles arefueling at Benning Road this week.

A joint effort of Shell and GM, it’s the firstpublic H2 fueling at a retail gasoline stationin the U.S. The world’s first, in Singapore,also has an Air Products Series 200.

The firm brings natural gas-derivedhydrogen to Benning Road in liquid form bytruck. In a separate project, later this year itwill begin dispensing fuel from an onsite gasreformer at Penn State (210 miles from here).

Air Products Fuels NHA Air Products supports Shell at Benning Road.

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General Motors says it may meet the hydrogenstorage challenge with solid metal hydridematerials, which can store H2 at low pres-sures. GM is engineering storage cannistersusing sodium alanate hydrides with scientistsat the Sandia Lab in California. Sodium alanatehas the thermal properties GM wants for ahydride system; research elsewhere is ex-pected to yield materials with similar thermalproper ties but the ability to hold morehydrogen—lithium borohydride is a candidate.

GM says it’s solved such fuel cell ‘show-stoppers’ as energy density and catalyst cost,and wants the world to know it’s handling thestorage issue. Later this week GM will unveil anew fuel cell module in upstate New York.

Sandia Lab’s Daniel Dedrick with sodium alanate.

GM Eyes Solid H2 Storage

Hydrogenics comes to NHA 2005 as a muchlarger company, having acquired Stuart Energyvia a stock swap deal that was announced inNovember and closed last month.

Hydrogenics, whichalready had hydrogenproduction capability,now has far more of it,picking up the Stuart andVandenborne industrialH2 supply businesses.

Hydrogen productionfrom the former Stuart,

electrolysis-based, now accounts for about half ofHydrogenics revenues.

Hydrogenics is working with ChevronTexaco,says president and CEO Pierre Rivard, onmaking hydrogen by reforming natural gas.

Hydrogenics can produce hydrogen, dispenseit, and use it in fuel cell modules ranging from

seven to 65 kilowatts for applications rangingfrom forklifts to yachts, including power backup.

There is already a business case for H2forklifts and minevehicles, Rivardsays. Forklifts pow-ered by his firm’sfuel cells have beentested by General Motors at its sprawling Osh-awa plant and will next be evaluated by FedEx.

Rivard describes a design strategy of usingultracapacitors to minimize the size of the fuelcell in a given vehicle. The Hyster forklifts withHyPM10 modules, for example, are capable ofbursts of 40-watt power with just a 10-kilowattHydrogenics fuel cell pack. “We cater to thepeak using ultracaps,” Rivard says.

Fuel cells are closer to commercialization thanmost people understand: “We’ve been achieving50 percent cost reductions year after year,”Rivard claims. The ambient-pressure Hydro-genics design is conducive to long stack life.

Rivard says he’s in talks with Los Angeles-based Ebus about fuel cell buses, and notes that

Hydrogenics now has a California office(manned by Kevin Harris). Delivery vehiclesfueled at the wind-powered Hydrogen Village inToronto are already showing lower per-milecosts than conventional vehicles, Rivard claims.

Hydrogenics also makes test equipment, havingbought Greenlight Energy in 2003. The testingbusiness counts some 450 installations among 55customers, and is a good way of building alliancesto be in place when Hydrogenics fuel cell prod-ucts achieve real com-mercial status. “It fostersalliances,” he says. “It’s areputation-builder.”

Rivard says it ’s amistake to think that rel-atively cheap oil willstifle hydrogen. “TheStone Age did not endfor a lack of stones,” hesays. “We’re moving to-ward an increasingly fastfuel for an increasinglyfast economy.”

Pierre Rivard

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Hydrogenics Now Includes Stuart EnergyPierre RivardPresident & CEOHydrogenics (Booth 345)

Hydrogenics uses windpower to make H2 onthe Toronto lakeside.

General Motors sees fuel cell vehicles as neces-sary to maintain its position in coming decades.

With hydrogen fuel cells, “We can give ourcustomers absolutely everything they aspire tohave,” says technology VP Larry Burns.

To keep on selling big premium vehicles in aworld with costlier conventional fuels andincreasing greenhouse gas emission pressures,GM has to shift to electric drivetrains, and theautomaker sees hydrogen fuel cells as the key togetting the power and efficiency it will need.

Fuel cells, in other words, represent the onlyway to sustain a profitable personal mobilitybusiness—with zero-emission vehicles that drivelike today’s cars with 300-mile range and arecompetitively priced—as new markets emerge ina world that’s fast using up a finite supply of oil.

“With fuel cells you can have your cake andeat it too,” GM fuel cells commercializationdirector Tim Vail said after GM took reportersto the Sandia Lab (the organizations are a yearand a half into a just-publicized four-year engi-neering effort) in Livermore, Calif. two weeksago. Burns and Vail, and GM chemical andenvironmental sciences laboratory director JimSpearot, were among the officials who met withthe media in a so-called “deep dive” intohydrogen storage technology.

Vail said it will take the financial muscle of an

automaker to come up with workable fuel cellsolutions, intimating that non-OEM fuel cellsuppliers, and the carmakers who depend onthem, will be left behind.

He said GM’s fuel cell people face regulargrueling sessions with CEO Rick Wagoner andvice chairman John Devine.

“The auto industry is 98 percent dependenton petroleum,” said technology VP Burns. “Wedon’t think that’s a very robust position to bein.” He pointed to Brazil, China, India, Mexicoand Russia as markets that will help take theworld’s current world vehicle population ofsome 750 million vehicles to 1.1 or 1.2 billionby 2020.

GM took reporters to the Sandia Lab inLivermore and to the GM-, Boeing- andRaytheon-owned HRL Labs in Santa Monica.

There’s No Altruism In It

Larry Burns, GM hydrogen technology ambassador.

a 10-kW HyPM10 module

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Quantum Seeks Manufacturer for Versatile Fueler Quantum (Booth 510 here) is looking for licensees to manufacture portable hydrogen fueling units forwhich it secured U.S. patent rights last year. Quantum claims rights to portable and transportablehydrogen fuelers that accept low pressure hydrogen from external sources, and can compress and dis-pense at either 5,000 or 10,000 psi. The firm is promoting the units under the HyHauler andHyHauler Plus brandnames. They are covered by U.S. patent number 6,755,225. Quantum is “com-mercializing these refuelers with the major automakers and the U.S. Army, and is interested inlicensing the technology to other manufacturers,” says president and CEO Alan Niedzwiecki.

‘Vital’ Fideris for Critical Test Equipment & Service“You probably spend from 25 to 40 percent of your development budget on testing,” says Fideris pres-ident and COO Jeff Bentley. The fuel cell industry spends upwards of $400 million per year on testing,Bentley said at this month’s Global Alternative Fuels Forum in Berlin. Fiderisclaims the world’s first onsite calibration service for fuel cell test equipment,whether Federis-built or from another manufacturer. Fideris technicians makehouse calls, so test cells don’t have to be disassembled nor equipment shipped.“Downtime is reduced from weeks to days or even hours,” Bentley says. Fiderishas opened an office in Zurich, too: Dr. Pankaj Agarwal is managing director ofFideris Test Solutions GmbH.

VTA Fuel Cell Buses Are Entering Service at LastThree Gillig buses with Ballard fuel cell drives entered service with the Santa Clara Valley TransitAuthority in Northern California late in February, following delays involving at least one hydrogenleak and a fire, and at least one false alarm, all of which prompted serious concern on the part of localfire authorities—and delay on the part of an ultra-cautious VTA. The 40-foot hydrogen-fueled vehi-cles, the heart of an $18.8 million, multi-year, California Air Resources Board-mandated effort, wereto have been operational this past summer or autumn (F&F, September 20).

German ‘Charly’ Scooter Shows Dana ExpertiseOhio’s Dana, a $7.9 billion company with operations in 30 countries, is talking updevelopment of its own fuel cell stack componentry, including bi-polar plates andseals it says can help make fuel cells more efficient and economical. The Dana prod-ucts were shown on a German-built scooter displayed at this past autumn’sFord-sponsored Convergence 2004 SAE automotive electronics show in Detroit.

H2Gen Investigating Ethanol as a Hydrogen FeedNorthern Virginia’s H2Gen Innovations has new funding from investors, as well as from partnersinvolved in a $5.4 million Department of Energy program aimed at finding cheaper ways to makehydrogen, for which H2Gen is the prime contractor. H2Gen specializes in production of hydrogenvia natural gas reformation. The DoE program seeks to apply reformation technology to other feed-stocks, notably ethanol. “Hydrogen made at the fueling station from renewable alcohol fuels is theleast costly option to produce renewable hydrogen today,” says an H2Gen release. Investors includeAir Products, Chrysalis, SoCal Gas, and Japan’s Itochu.

ePower Synergies Is Born of John Deere ePowerBruce Wood, formerly of John Deere ePower Technologies, has formed ePowerSynergies, which is effectively taking over Deere’s work on fuel cell vehicles.ePower’s goal is to be a Tier One supplier of hydrogen fuel cell systems for off-road work vehicles, not only for the Deere line, Wood told F&F, but forcompanies like Toro that compete with Deere. Cordova, Ill.-based ePower main-tains close ties to fuel cell developer Hydrogenics. Wood says he expects torelease word on several projects at the EVS-21 world electric vehicle show inMonte Carlo next week.

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Mississauga, Ont.-based Astris Energiis promoting alkaline fuel cells,claiming such advantages as cheapermaterials (there is a liquid electrolyte,thus no costly membrane), toleranceof lower-cost, commercial-gradehydrogen as fuel, and higher energyefficiency.

Astris unveiled a golf cart it said isthe first in the world to be powered byAFCs at the most recent Fuel CellsCanada (Booth 130 here) meeting inToronto, and reported a deal withItaly’s Electronic Machining thatcould lead to near-term application ofthe Astris alkaline fuel cell technologyin devices for stationary and distrib-uted generation.

“As well as generating immediaterevenue through the sale of our con-sulting services and products to ElMa,there is a great potential market inItaly and Europe for Astris’ alkalinefuel cell technology,” Astris VP DavidRamm said in a release. “ElMa pro-vides us with a beachhead from whichto exploit this market.”

San Diego’s ISE Research is outfittinga bus from Belgium’s Van Hool withan electric drivetrain including fuelcell stacks from UTC Fuel Cells(Booth 230), and Siemens Elfa motorsand controllers, for Oakland, Calif.’sAC Transit.

Aalabama’s Fab Industries, a naturalgas specialist that’s expanding intohydrogen (and is also expanding toCalifornia) did the hydrogen fuelsystem using SCI tanks.

The Van Hool buses fit AC’sstrategy of not only moving beyonddiesel fuel but presenting attractivevehicles that will stimulate the use ofpublic transportation.

A Milestone BusTakes to the Road

AC’s fuel cell Van Hool bus in San Diego

Courtesy Fleets & Fuels, a biweekly real-time business intelligence publicationon alternative technology vehicles—gaseous-fueled, electric, hybrid-electric andfuel cell vehicles, and renewables. 415-896-5988 www.fleetsandfuels.com

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ChevronTexaco is applying technology looselyderived from the steam reforming prevalent in therefineries to onsite hydrogen production forvehicle fueling.

Engineering, in termsof catalyst choice andprocess steps, is an entirelynew challenge, says RickZalesky. He presides overhydrogen development atCTTV, ChevronTexacoTechnology Ventures.

C T T V i s w o r k i n gunder DoE contracts, one involving Hyundaiand UTC Fuel Cells aimed at testing approxi-mately 30 vehicles in real-world conditions.CTTV will supply fuel at as many as half a dozensites, most of them to be based on natural gas.

The just-opened station at Hyundai’s tech-nical center in Chino, Calif. will employ an auto-thermal reforming process using oxygen instead

of steam to extract hydrogen from methane.The single-reactor CTTV Halias processorcan run on propane as well as natural gas.

A station at the University of California,Davis, will be based on steam reforming.

The Davis station and probably at leastone other will include stationary fuel cellsdesigned to demonstrate the efficiencies ofdistributed electricity generation: hydrogenthat’s made onsite from natural gas will beused onsite to make electricity.

CTTV will set up a hydrogen station withfuel derived via electrolysis for SoCal Edison.

“Since we don’t know how to do this (establishhydrogen as an economically viable fuel), we’retrying to explore all the pathways,” Zalesky says.

The DoE program with Hyundai andConnecticut-based UTC may include a hydro-gen station in the Northeast to test performanceunder winter conditions.

Future hydrogen stations may also be locatedat existing natural gas stations. “I don’t knowhow much of the infrastructure is re-usable as wehave not studied this,” Zalesky says. “Obviously,the raw material is available at the site.”

CTTV is hoping to be able to test a single-step reforming process now in developmentunder a separate DoE pact at one of the stationsbeing built for the Hyundai vehicle trials too.

ChevronTexaco’s Kevin Nguyen will discussthe production of hydrogen by steam reformingnatural gas at a session this Wednesday after-noon. It’s titled, “Chicken... Meet the Egg! ACost Effective Hydrogen Supply Solution.”

“Our corporate strategy is focused on naturalgas as being the primary feedstock to the hydro-gen economy, at least in the early years,” sayshydrogen infrastructure VP John Brady.

Rick Zalesky

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ChevronTexaco’s Leveraging Natural GasRick ZaleskyPresident (Hydrogen)ChevronTexaco Technology Ventures

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April 2-6, EVS-21, the 21st Worldwide Battery,Hybrid and Fuel Cell Electric Vehicle Symposium &Exhibition. Grimaldi Forum’s Espace Ravel in MonteCarlo, Monaco. Act Now for Sustainable Mobilitytheme. Georges Dick is general secretary. EVS-21,Simone Mirza, +377-97-77-54-21; fax +377-97-77-54-22; simonemirza@evs21.org; www.evs21.org

April 11-14, SAE World Congress organized by SAEInternational. Billed as the world’s premier automo-tive trade show and conference. Cobo Center inDetroit, Mich. SAE Customer Service, 724-776-4970 or U.S.-Canada toll-free 877-606-7323;customerservice@sae.org; www.sae.org/congress

April 11-15, the Hannover Fair in Hannover,Germany. Includes a special section on hydrogenand fuel cells hosted by Germany’s Fair-PR. Fair-PR,Arno Evers, +49-8151-99892-3; fax +49-8151-99892-43; arno@fair-pr.com; www.fair-pr.com;www.hannovermesse.de

May 1-3, Eleventh National Clean Cities Conference& Exhibition. Wyndham Palm Springs Hotel in PalmSprings, Calif. Clean Cities Coachella Valley Regionto host in partnership with the Las Vegas-basedAlternative Fuel Vehicle Institute. Clean CitiesCoachella, Bert Kronmiller, 760-325-1577, ext111; fax 760-325-8549; kronmiller@pschamber.orgor, for AFVI, Annalloyd Thomason, 702-254-4180;info@ngvi.com; www.eere.energy.gov/cleancities;www.afvi.org/palmsprings

May 4-6, FCTI 2005, Fuel Cell Technology Instituteand Hydrogen Workshop immediately followingClean Cities at the Wyndham Palm Springs Hotel.Organized by the National Fuel Cell ResearchCenter at the University of California, Irvine.UC Irvine FCTI, 949-824-1999, ext 212;fcti@nfcrc.uci.edu; www.nfcrc.uci.edu/fcti2005

May 6, First International Hydrail Conference,aimed at advancing railway technology powered byhydrogen fuel cells. Renaissance Charlotte Suites,Charlotte, N.C. $150 registration fee. AppalachianState University, Dr. Dennis Grady, 828-262-6827;gradydo@appstate.edu; www.hydrail.org

May 20, General Meeting of the California HydrogenBusiness Council. Hosted by California EPA inSacramento. CHBC, Catherine Rips, 760-341-2924;catherine@ripsconsulting.com or info@californiahy-drogen.org; www.californiahydrogen.org

May 24, USFCC Congressional Fuel Cell Expo 2005in the Cannon Caucus Room, Cannon House OfficeBuilding in Washington, D.C. US Fuel Cell Council,Bernadette Geyer, 202-293-5500; fax 202-785-4313; bernie@usfcc.com; www.usfcc.com

June 7-8, Fuel Cell 2005 Conference & Exhibit onAdvancements in Fuel Cell Applications &Technology. Hyatt Regency in Minneapolis, Minn.Organized by Fuel Cell magazine, Greg Schriener,720-528-3770 or toll-free 800-803-9488; fax 720-528-3771; gregs@infowebcom.com;www.fuelcell-magazine.com

June 8-12, 11th annual meeting of the EuropeanNatural Gas Vehicle Association: World Fair ofNatural Gas & Hydrogen Vehicles with A ProfitableEURnvironment for NGVs theme. Bolzano (Bozen),Italy. ENGVA, Jeff Seisler, +31-23-554-3050; fax+31-23-557-9065; info@engva.nl; www.engva.net

July 4-8, Lucerne Fuel Cell Forum 2005, the 2ndInternational Fuel Cell Conferences with Exhibition.Kultur- und Kongresszentrum Luzern in Lucerne,Switzerland. Includes the 3rd European PolymerElectrolyte Fuel Cell Forum. European Fuel CellForum, +41-56-496-7292,Fax+41-56-496-4412;forum@efcf.com; www.efcf.com

October 4-6, the Ninth Grove Fuel Cell Symposiumat the Queen Elizabeth II Conference Centre inWestminster, London. Grove-Elsevier conferencesecretariat, Gill Heaton, +44-1865-373625; fax+44-1865-375855; grovefuelcell@elsevier.com;www.grovefuelcell.com

November 14-18, 2005 Fuel Cell Seminar. PalmSprings, Calif. Fuel Cell Seminar HQ (CourtesyAssociates, Washington, D.C.), Molly Bartkowski,202-973-8671; fax 202-331-0111; fuelcell@cour-tesyassoc.com; www.fuelcellseminar.com

November 22-25, EHEC 2005, the 2nd EuropeanHydrogen Energy Conference & Exhibition.Zaragoza, Spain. Organizers include the Europeanand Spanish Hydrogen Associations. Abstracts fortechnical papers due March 31. EHA, SecretaryDr. Ulrich Schmidtchen, +49-700-49376-835; fax+49-700-49376-329; schmidtchen@h2euro.org orinfo@ehec.info; www.ehec.info

December 6-8, EDTA 2005, the Electric DriveTransportation Association Conference &Exposition 2005, organized by the Electric DriveTransportation Association. Vancouver. EDTA,Kara Elsden, 202-408-0774; fax 202-408-7610;kelsden@electricdrive.org; www.electricdrive.org;www.edtaconference.com

2006June 13-16, 2006, 16th World Hydrogen EnergyConference at the Lyon Congress Center in Lyon,France, Technical abstracts due October 3, 2005.AFH2 (Association Française de l’Hydrogène),Stéphanie Paysant, +33-53-59-02-11; fax +33-45-55-40-33; info@afh2.org; www.afh2.org /for abstracts, Pascale Bridou, +33-53-59-02-18;fax +33-45-55-40-33; scientific@whec2006.com

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ISSUES SURROUNDING HYDROGEN IMPLEMENTATION.

WEDNESDAY, MARCH 30, 2005

8:30 AM – 9:15 AM PLENARY IVCOTILLION

9:30 AM – 10:45 AM PLENARY VCOTILLION

10:45 AM – 11:45 AM IDEA FORUM CONCLUSIONS

11:45 AM – NOON CLOSING REMARKS AND RAFFLE

1:00 PM – 4:00 PM INTERAGENCY HYDROGEN R&D TASK FORCE

SBIR/STTR WORKSHOP

SALON I

THURSDAY, MARCH 31, 2005

FRIDAY, APRIL 1, 2005