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Hydrogen Energy Roadmap, which is awaiting approval by the Ministry of
Non-Conventional Energy, Government of India, is aiming to generate about
1,000 megawatts of hydrogen-based power and developing a million hydrogen-fuelled
vehicles in India by 2020.
The Government is planning to invest
Rs25,000 crore to cover the cost of creating infrastructure for hydrogen
production, storage and distribution.
Indian Oil Corporation is currently
testing vehicles powered by a mixture of 10 percent hydrogen with compressed
natural gas. In Oct 2005, it set up its first hydrogen fuelling station
in Faridabad.
So far, experiments have shown that
hydrogen applications in fuel cells are three times more efficient than
the internal combustion engines.

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