Highways

Turin 2006: the Hydrogen Sidewalk

One of the exciting legacies of the 2010 Winter Olympics is the "Hydrogen Highway". This is a plan to have enough hydrogen fuelling stations in the Vancouver/Whistler area so that hydrogen can be a viable fuel source in the area during the Olympics. This solves one of the main issues with Hydrogen fuelling. Nobody can make any cars until their is a fuelling structure, but nobody can build a structure unless there are vehicles to use it. This Hydrogen Highway should help make the 2010 Olympics a showcase of Hydrogen technology. For more information see NRC page on the Hydrogen Highway

Turin isn't planning on a full fuelling infrastructure. However, they are planning on having as part of the fleet, hydrogen powered scooters. These are little scooters that will be able to go up to 22km/h and can go up to 2 hours before refuelling. So far I haven't seen a picture or a description of these scooters, so I'm not sure exactly what they mean by the term "scooter". With only a 2 hour range these are quite limited on how they could be used. Cool nonetheless though.


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