Toyota joins Clean Energy Partnership, helps build new H2 stations
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Toyota has joined the Clean Energy Partnership (CEP) in Europe to help promote low- and zero-emission vehicles and related infrastructure. The automaker will be providing five of its Highlander-based FCHV-adv fuel-cell vehicles available for the CEP test fleet in Berlin and Hamburg, Germany. In addition, Toyota and CEP member Total will help to build more hydrogen fueling stations in Germany starting with a completely CO2-free facility at the Berlin-Brandenburg Airport. Several other hydrogen stations in Berlin, Hamburg and along the routes between the two northern German cities are in the planning stages.
Toyota remains committed to bringing series production fuel cell vehicles to market by 2015 and sees fuel cells as the best long-term solution to zero emissions transportation. CEP is working to ramp up supplies of hydrogen from renewable sources to 50 percent of production over the next few years. Wind farms are now a common site in Germany and already produce one fifth of the electricity there.
[Source: Toyota]
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