Big Turnout, New Products, Calls for Greater Effort Highlight Fuel Cell Seminar SAN ANTONIO, TX - A glimpse of how Toyota sees its fuel cell future, calls for much more funding from both sides of the Atlantic, a good-sized number of new products and equipment, two- and four-wheeled scooters and cars at the obligatory Ride-and-Drive event kept participants in the 2004 Fuel Cell Seminar here informed, busy and entertained.
WASHINGTON, DC - The mammoth fiscal year 2005 omnibus appropriations bill rushed through Congress last month includes about $264 million for hydrogen and fuel cells, an early rapid check of the bill indicates, but these numbers are subject to refinement and confirmation.
SAN ANTONIO - About half of the $60 billion that the U.S. Fuel Cell Councils president Robert Rose proposes spending on hydrogen and fuel cell technology, should go to r&d and infrastructure, and the other half to market stimulation.
WASHINGTON, DC/BERLIN - Hydrogen fuel got a permanent base in the nations capital last month in the shape of a new fueling pump alongside existing pumps for regular, premium and diesel.