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**Fuel Cell Today’s LIVE coverage of the Hydrogen and Fuel Cell Group Exhibition during the Hannover Trade fair in Germany-April 23rd 2004**
Publication date: 22-April-2004 Source: Fuel Cell Today/Hannover Trade Fair
Welcome to today’s live report, this will be the last day we are reporting from the Hydrogen and Fuel Cell Group Exhibit during the Hannover Fair. One of the exhibits which attracted the most attention is the fuel cell powered Fiat Seicento on the booth of Nuvera Fuel Cells (D40-4). The car, powered by a 40kW PEM fuel cell was presented to the public in October 2003 together with another fuel cell powered Fiat Panda.The company offers the chance to test drive the vehicle in the exhibition hall. During yesterday’s roundtable “Stationary Fuel Cells”, representatives from Fuel Cell Technologies, European Fuel Cell, Axane and MTU CFC Solutions were discussing the chances for the technology in this sector. Although the four companies pursue different paths in terms of technology and power range, the speakers agreed, that back-up and premium, grid and off-grid power will certainly be one of the earlier markets for fuel cells. MTU (E46-1) is also present on the exhibition floor, presenting its flagship stationary fuel cell unit, the MCFC “HotModule”. The 250kW system has been installed in various places, including sites in Japan, Germany and the USA. MTU announced that in the future, larger systems up to 3MW and smaller systems below 250kW will be available. Quite remarkably, MTU’s parent company DaimlerChrysler doesn’t exhibit during this years show, having had the biggest booth last year. Competitor General Motors/Opel, having displayed their HyWire model last year is also not present. Visit Fuel Cell Today ~

Welcome to today’s live report, this will be the last day we are reporting from the Hydrogen and Fuel Cell Group Exhibit during the Hannover Fair.

One of the exhibits which attracted the most attention is the fuel cell powered Fiat Seicento on the booth of Nuvera Fuel Cells (D40-4). The car, powered by a 40kW PEM fuel cell was presented to the public in October 2003 together with another fuel cell powered Fiat Panda.The company offers the chance to test drive the vehicle in the exhibition hall.

During yesterday’s roundtable “Stationary Fuel Cells”, representatives from Fuel Cell Technologies, European Fuel Cell, Axane and MTU CFC Solutions were discussing the chances for the technology in this sector. Although the four companies pursue different paths in terms of technology and power range, the speakers agreed, that back-up and premium, grid and off-grid power will certainly be one of the earlier markets for fuel cells. MTU (E46-1) is also present on the exhibition floor, presenting its flagship stationary fuel cell unit, the MCFC “HotModule”. The 250kW system has been installed in various places, including sites in Japan, Germany and the USA. MTU announced that in the future, larger systems up to 3MW and smaller systems below 250kW will be available.

Quite remarkably, MTU’s parent company DaimlerChrysler doesn’t exhibit during this years show, having had the biggest booth last year. Competitor General Motors/Opel, having displayed their HyWire model last year is also not present.

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