ZEFER (Zero Emission Fleet vehicles for European Roll-out) will deploy large fleets of 60 hydrogen (H2) fuelled vehicles in each of three European capitals – Paris, London and Brussels.
These vehicles will be used in the applications where H2 fuelled vehicles are the most valuable – fleets which drive long distances every day, which need rapid refuelling, and which operate in polluted city centres where zero-emission H2 vehicles can have the greatest impact on avoiding pollution.
The €26m ($31.2m) pan-European initiative will introduce 180 fuel cell electric vehicles (FCEVs) into a combination of taxi, private-hire and police fleets. These vehicles will be in regular use each day, creating H2 demand from each vehicle roughly four times that from a normal privately-owned car. This will help to ensure high utilisation of the early networks of H2 fuelling stations which are already operating in each city. This improves the economics of operating the stations and hence helps accelerate the commercialisation of H2 as a zero-emission fuel for Europe’s cities.
The project will gather data and disseminate results to demonstrate the business case for future FCEV adoption and test the performance of cars and infrastructure under high-mileage conditions.
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