Takashi Moriya, Stefan Knirsch, Sian Berry.

“Durability, quality control and cost are three areas that need to be controlled going forward. These things are contradictory, so how we do this is going to be a challenge.”

Takashi Moriya is a senior chief engineer in Honda’s fuel cell programme. He outlines the challenges the Japanese carmaker attempts to tackle in a joint project with GM that shall result in a shared hydrogen powertrain by 2020.
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“I know there’s a big discussion ‘why fuel cells?’ if everything in the future will be battery electric: at some point there will be a charging infrastructure and the electric ranges will increase, so who needs fuel cell cars? But we don’t see it so black and white at the moment.”

Audi’s head of development Stefan Knirsch explains the company’s two-fold strategy. Audi will lead all of the Volkswagen Group’s efforts concerning FCVs. Knirsch is confident that hydrogen will soon be produced in “a CO2-neutral way.”
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“If I’m elected mayor I will immediately exclude the most polluting cars, vans and lorries from central London, and speed up the switchover to make all new buses and taxis zero-emission.”

Hear, hear Sian Berry, who is the Green party’s mayoral candidate for London. The election will be held on May 5th. Her opponents also vowed to tackle air pollution in the British capital albeit by less daring means.
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