Where can I buy a fuel cell car?
At present, no vehicles powered by fuel cells have come to the UK market. However, the situation is likely to change dramatically over the coming years. Already demonstration fuel cell vehicles are in use on UK roads and include fuel cell black cabs and Citaro fuel cell buses in London. The buses were used as part of the Cleaner Urban Transport for Europe (CUTE) programme, which ran from 2003 until 2007 and successfully demonstrated the potential of hydrogen with 30 fuel cell buses across Europe. Worldwide, several hundred fuel cell car prototypes have been developed, and small fleets of fuel cell cars are being used by companies and government agencies – these include the Mercedes-Benz ‘F-Cell’ cars based on the A-Class car (in Berlin) and the Honda FCX Clarity (in California). Many of these use a fuel cell engine developed by Ballard Power Systems of Canada, one of the first companies to see the potential fuel cell engine technology.Indeed, almost every car manufacturer has a fuel ce
