June 2004

Fuel cell buses in Tiananmen Square: DaimlerChrysler’s Citaro hybrid fuel cell bus, foreground, is parked at the bottom of the steps leading up to the Great Hall of the People, discharging HYFORUM 2004 participants going to the opening plenary session. Further in the background is the 100 kW hybrid third-generation fuel cell city bus built by Tsinghua University, with the fuel cells designed and built by Shanghai ShenLi High Tech Co. (The other buses, right, were standard transit buses used to ferry more HYFORUM participants to the event).

BEIJING - The 2008 Olympics here are shaping up as a milestone test for Chinese hydrogen and fuel cell technologies, and judging by what Chinese scientists presented at HYFORUM 2004 here, China may emerge as a powerhouse, perhaps in the not too distant future - with some western help.

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