Clean Energy Partnership (CEP) is a joint project for world's most versatile hydrogen demonstration. It is aiming for emission-free mobility and has several
hydrogen stations.
As of May 2010 the CEP is a consortium of thirteen partners:
Berliner Verkehrsbetriebe BVG (Berlin transit authority),
BMW,
Daimler
Daimler is a German surname. It may refer to:
People
* Gottlieb Daimler (1834–1900), German inventor, industrialist and namesake of a series of automobile companies
* Adolf Daimler (1871–1913), engineer and son of Gottlieb Daimler
* Paul Da ...
,
Ford,
GM/
Opel
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,
Hamburger Hochbahn
Hamburger Hochbahn AG (HHA), founded in 1911, operates the underground system and large parts of the bus system in Hamburg, Germany.
History
The HHA was founded by Siemens & Halske and AEG as a consortium on 27 May 1911. The first chairman w ...
(Hamburg transit company),
Linde Group
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,
Royal Dutch Shell
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,
Statoil
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,
Total
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Mathematics
* Total, the summation of a set of numbers
* Total order, a partial order without incomparable pairs
* Total relation, which may also mean
** connected relation (a binary relation in which any two elements are comp ...
,
Toyota
is a Japanese multinational automotive manufacturer headquartered in Toyota City, Aichi, Japan. It was founded by Kiichiro Toyoda and incorporated on . Toyota is one of the largest automobile manufacturers in the world, producing about 10 ...
,
Vattenfall Europe, and
Volkswagen Group
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.
Milestones
*In November 2004 the first hydrogen station was opened in
Messedamn,
Berlin
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,
Germany
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.
*On July 13, 2006 Volkswagen Group joined the partnership.
In September, 2009 seven members of the Clean Energy Partnership signed a Memorandum of Understanding with NOW GmbH (Nationale Organisation Wasserstoff- und Brennstoffzellentechnologie, "National Organisation Hydrogen and Fuel Cell Technology", a state organisation. represented by the Federal Ministry of Transport, Building and Urban Development.
It called for two phases of work
# "leverage plans to install new hydrogen fuelling stations by 2011"
# Depending on the progress of this, a nationwide roll-out of hydrogen fuelling stations will be continued, supporting the introduction of series produced hydrogen powered vehicles in Germany around 2015.
As of September 2006 CEP had 17 hydrogen stations.
References
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External links
Homepage of Clean Energy PartnershipHonda FCX ClarityHonda aid CEP programs through providing two FCX Clarity fuel cell cars
Ulrich Hottelet: State funding for hybrid dreams The Asia Pacific Times, October 2009
Hydrogen economy
Fuel cell vehicles