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Chief Scientist, Vice President of Tongji University, Professor Wan Gang, in a speech last week revealed that a report on the Shanghai Fuel Cell Vehicle Program has been submitted to the municipal government, is to be assessed.

According to the plan by the year 2010, the new generation of zero emission fuel cell vehicles car — volume is expected to enter public life.
It is reported that the World Expo 2010, the 20 fuel cell buses, 300 fuel cell car, electric vehicles, as well as 1000 a number of fuel cell cars and postal cars venues will be put into operation, then, Shanghai will build a five hydrogen refueling station for these vehicles to meet the demand for hydrogen fuel.

Wan Gang said, according to start in March this year, “China’s commercialization of fuel cell bus,” the operating plan, in October next year, 6 million cost of the fuel cell bus will be coming out the streets of Shanghai, while Shanghai will build a fixed hydrogen refueling station and a mobile hydrogen refueling station.

This fuel cell bus demonstration in Shanghai 1.6 million kilometers run and running in the model system to collect and analyze test data to verify the technical feasibility of fuel cell buses, fuel cell  buses to promote the industrialization in China and application.
It is reported that this hydrogen-rich materials as renewable energy, fuel cell vehicles, because of zero-emissions and high energy usage of the advantages of a global automobile manufacturer’s research and development focus.

Developed countries, automobile giant, has invested heavily in this area for a few billions of dollars in research costs, domestic enterprises are fully catch up. It is reported that China’s fuel cell vehicle as a major R & D base in Shanghai late last year was the successful production of fuel cell vehicles bench “Beyond One”, the performance target.

Experts predict that the next 3,4 month, the third-generation fuel cell power system is expected to Shanghai successfully developed and loaded to the Santana 2000 sedans, MPV MPV, SUV, such as Sports Car of the three models.

This shows that Shanghai Automotive with clean energy is progressing smoothly.

Hydrogenics Corporation (TSX: HYG)(NASDAQ: HYGS), a leading developer and manufacturer of hydrogen generation and fuel cell products, today announced that it has received orders for electrolyzers worth, in aggregate, approximately $5 million from Groupe Cevital of Algeria and the Obeikan Investment Group of Saudi Arabia. These Hydrogenics HySTAT units, expected to be delivered in late 2009 and early 2010, will be used to produce high-quality hydrogen for vegetable oil processing and glass production.

“These awards, including a 2MW plant, once again demonstrate Hydrogenics’ global leadership position in electrolyzers and our growing presence across Africa and the Middle East,” said Daryl Wilson, President and CEO. “We are grateful to be providing this critical equipment to such well-known, respected organizations as Obeikan and Cevital. Our reliable, high quality electrolyzers have been chosen because of their reputation the world over, and, as the economy stabilizes, we expect to see additional orders in the months and quarters to come.”

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Hydrogenics Corporation (www.hydrogenics.com) is a globally recognized developer and provider of hydrogen generation and fuel cell products and services, serving the growing industrial and clean energy markets of today and tomorrow. Based in Mississauga, Ontario, Canada, Hydrogenics has operations in North America and Europe.

Seoul City set in motion its drive to produce hydrogen ― a clean, renewable energy source ― from natural biogases emitted by landfills in Sangam-dong in northern Seoul.

It will sign a memorandum of understanding with a consortium led by SK Engineering & Construction on the project today.

The city aims to complete the construction of the hydrogen-extraction facility in October 2010, with the facility going operational the following month.

The hydrogen station will be the first of its kind in the world to extract hydrogen from methane as a clean fuel source, Seoul City said in a statement.

The energy produced from the facility will be used to fuel two buses and two cars. The four vehicles, whose total retail value is estimated at 5.2 billion won, will be supplied by Hyundai Motor free of charge. There will potentially be a remaining 320 kilowatts of energy, to be used as power supply elsewhere.

The methane that landfills produce naturally through decomposition can be stored and compressed into energy, according to the Energy Information Administration, a U.S.-based organization that compiles statistics from the government. The project is part of the Seoul Green Energy Declaration made in April 2007 that called for 10 percent of South Korea’s energy sources to be renewable by 2020.

The new facility, however, will take the energy-producing process a step further. After separating the methane’s main components, the hydrogen will then be compressed to reach 99.9 percent purity, according to Seoul City.