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[Martin Svennson] Hello. My name is Martin Svensson from Hydrogen Sweden and I'm co-ordinating
the European Hydrogen Road Tour. Today we are here in Bristol at the Create Centre where
we are offering the possibility to have a chance to test drive these fuel cell hydrogen-powered
electric vehicles.
[Dr Ulrich Bunger] It's one of our duties within this European Commission funded project
not only to drive the vehicles and to collect performance data in Norway, but also to talk
about it and tell the rest of Europe what we have observed, what we have learnt in the
operating of the vehicles and fuelling stations. We are visiting nine cities, nine seminars
with 8 public test drives. That's a crucial part of the whole thing - that people can
drive the vehicles. You only understand the advantages of this type of technology if you
use the vehicles.
[Road Tour rep] We are driving in a B-class F-Cell vehicle, which is a battery electric
vehicle with a fuel cell system.
[Test driver] It was a very good drive this morning. The car works just as you would expect.
It's noticeably quiet to drive - a very pleasant experience I would say.
[Event delegate] You get a picture of where the battery is being used, where the fuel
cells are and what's being recharged during your drive. It's very smooth, very functional.
If there was the infrastructure that gave me the hydrogen in the right place, then I
would be very interested.
[Councillor Harrison] We're looking at the new Bristol Hydrogen Ferry, at its first outing
in public. It will be getting on the water for public use in a couple of weeks time,
but here it is out on the harbour.
(Jas Singh) My name is Jas Singh. I'm Managing Director of Auriga Energy, the fuel cells
developers, and I'm a director of Bristol Hydrogen Boats, which built the boat, integrated
it and will be operating the hydrogen fuel cell powered boat - the Hydrogenesis. "I see
the project as filling a gap, where maritime pollution was being addressed and fuel cells
present a zero carbon, zero emission solution to our problem of being reliant on fossil
fuels and turning out lots of pollution. The biggest challenge has been getting through
the certification processes. Because this is a new technology, there are no written
rules, therefore what we are proposing presents the need for a new set of rules to be developed,
so that people can certify it.
[Richard Rankin] I'm one third of Bristol Hydrogen Boats. My company is called Number
Seven Boat trips, I'm Richard Rankin. The actual designer of the boats shape was Keith
Dunstan from the Bristol Packet, another company. The designer and installer of the fuel cell
system was Jas Singh from Auriga Energy. The performance with the fuel cells is as we expected.
We're only, at the moment, testing up as far as three kilowatts and we're already getting
up to within 1 knot of the hull design speed, so 12 kilowatts is going to give an excess
of power.
[Emma Guthrie] Air Products is the supplier of the hydrogen for the ferry project and
we are also the supplier of the fuelling station that delivers the hydrogen into the ferry.
The thing with the station is that it's setting new ground as it's in a publically accessible
space. The technology is quite well proven and there's a number of stations - not necessarily
fuelling ferries, but using the same technologies to fuel buses and fuel cars. It's the context
here that's new. We've got a station that's in publically accessible grounds, so we're
breaking new boundaries here in terms of putting the station in this type of environment. This
morning we had a fleet of hydrogen cars that came through Bristol. That's showing that
there's a hydrogen corridor emerging. It's starting in South Wales and coming along the
M4 through Swindon, through Bristol and coming into London where we have another fleet of
vehicles that are operating and some more stations there. We really see that Bristol
is forming a key part of that hydrogen corridor and that will be the first set of stations
that will come into the UK.
[Shaun Jordan] I'm Shaun Jordan, working for the Environmental iNet based at the University
of the West of England. We are involved in supporting innovation, mainly among small
and medium-sized business in Bristol and across the South West. We're absolutely delighted
to be supporting this event today and to be seeing an example of local innovation on the
water - floating around, making absolutely no noise and causing no pollution. It's just
fantastic.