{"id":128,"date":"2008-04-24T11:28:19","date_gmt":"2008-04-24T10:28:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.vanrental.co.uk\/vanblog\/?p=128"},"modified":"2011-08-12T15:01:13","modified_gmt":"2011-08-12T15:01:13","slug":"more-hydrogen-fuelled-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vanrental.co.uk\/vanblog\/archives\/128","title":{"rendered":"More Hydrogen Fuelled News"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Following my recent post about the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.vanrental.co.uk\/vanblog\/archives\/123\" target=\"_self\">UK&#8217;s first hydrogen fuel station<\/a>, news comes that a much larger station is planned for London by 2010 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.autobloggreen.com\/2008\/03\/23\/complicating-matters-ten-hydrogen-coming-to-london\/\" target=\"_blank\">to power a fleet of ten hydrogen buses<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Interestingly, five of the buses will be powered by internal combustion engines burning hydrogen while the other five will use a fuel cell\/electric motor system.<\/p>\n<p>The fuel station will be provided by Air Products &#8211; the same company that is providing the University of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.vanrental.co.uk\/birmingham\">Birmingham&#8217;s<\/a> hydrogen fuel station.<\/p>\n<p>At the other end of the market (size-wise), PSA (makers of Peugeot, Citroen and Fiat vans) have unveiled an experimental hydrogen fuel cell-powered electric version of the ever-popular Peugeot Partner small van. The electric motor is powered by a 10kW fuel cell that&#8217;s been specifically designed for small van use and fits under the bonnet, giving the van a 300km range.<\/p>\n<p>The hydrogen itself is stored in an &#8216;exchangeable rack&#8217; &#8211; meaning that it can be swapped for a new, pre-filled rack if a refuelling facility isn&#8217;t available. This could be a useful feature given how few hydrogen fuel stations are likely to be available for the next few years.<\/p>\n<p>Impressively, the vehicle can also be started at temperatures down to -20C &#8211; so cold starts should never be a problem in the UK or most of Europe.<\/p>\n<p>(Thanks to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.just-auto.com\/article.aspx?id=94589\" target=\"_blank\">Just-Autos.com<\/a> for this story.)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Following my recent post about the UK&#8217;s first hydrogen fuel station, news comes that a much larger station is planned for London by 2010 to power a fleet of ten hydrogen buses. Also in this post are details of an experimental new fuel cell-powered electric van.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[139],"tags":[151,148,237,234,238,164,235,236],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vanrental.co.uk\/vanblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/128"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vanrental.co.uk\/vanblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vanrental.co.uk\/vanblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vanrental.co.uk\/vanblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vanrental.co.uk\/vanblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=128"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.vanrental.co.uk\/vanblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/128\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2098,"href":"https:\/\/www.vanrental.co.uk\/vanblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/128\/revisions\/2098"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vanrental.co.uk\/vanblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=128"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vanrental.co.uk\/vanblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=128"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vanrental.co.uk\/vanblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=128"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}