Hydrogen car deal for hydrogen highway
Posted: 15 May 2006
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HyNor has entered into an agreement with the US company Quantum Technologies to acquire15 hydrogen-powered automobiles. The vehicles are Toyota Prius models with a hybrid solution that becomes even more environmentally friendly by their conversion to hydrogen power.
Nine of the cars will be affiliated with Hydro’s hydrogen filling station at Haerya in Porsgrunn, which is scheduled to start operating by spring 2007.
“In order to build Hydro’s first hydrogen station in Norway, we have been dependent on local users wanting to get a hydrogen-powered car. We’re therefore pleased that we have more than enough and have managed to acquire 15 vehicles,” says Alexandra Bech Gjorv, head of Hydro’s activities within new energy forms.
Hydro starts construction of its new hydrogen station on May 31, and will host a reception for invited guests to honour the occasion.
HyNor is a Hydro-led joint project that has brought together some 30 public and private partners determined to boost the use of hydrogen as a fuel in Norway’s transport sector. The goal is to build a series of local hydrogen filling stations in Stavanger, Lyngdal, Porsgrunn, Drammen and Oslo.
Completed in 2009, the string of stations will comprise a “hydrogen highway” between Stavanger in southwestern Norway and Oslo in the southeastern part of the country.
“The point of the project is to raise hydrogen’s visibility as a new, safe and environmentally friendly fuel that is well suited for daily transportation,” says Bech Gjørv.
Four cars will be affiliated with the filling station in Stavanger. Two vehicles will be used by HyNor’s venture partner HyTrec in Trondheim.
Miljobil Grenland, a Porsgrunn-based professional operator of a fleet of electric cars, has signed an agreement, on behalf of the HyNor project, with the C alifornia-based Quantum Technologies and will lease the cars to users in Porsgrunn, Stavanger and Trondheim.
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