The Science Museum is the one of the world's most prestigious museums, housing an outstanding collection of science, technology and medicine related innovations. It is also a highly respected organisation dedicated to the promotion of public understanding of science and technology.

An important part of the Museum's work is to look at environmentally friendly technologies, and fuel cell systems that extract electrical energy from chemical energy are of great interest in this area. These systems offer great potential to provide our future power needs, but produce far fewer emissions than is typical from existing generator technology.

Voller was credited in 2002 as one of the first commercial developers of portable fuel cell systems. The hand portable VE100 products that were first released in 2003 are considered the first example of a commercial fuel cell product using a self contained internal hydrogen canister and producing no emissions - the only output is pure water.

The most important step forward was to package the system with a mains inverter, so that electrical devices could be plugged into the system just like a mains plug in the wall.

In total, Voller is donating three systems to the Science Museum:

VE100 pre-production (2002)
Silver flop over box design. This is a one off system and is recognised as the world' first prototype fuel cell system to be self contained with an internal hydride canister and mains inverter.

VE100 v1 (2003)
First commercial system using Voller's characteristic triangular shape case and using internal metal hydride cartridge. Included switch able mains inverter (110v or 230v) and 12v DC outputs, used replaceable battery. Launched at Grove Fuel cell event in London.

VE100 v3 (Built 2005)
Improved and enhanced triangular design included mains inverter (110v or 230v), 12v DC car cigar lighter output and internal rechargeable battery. Included serial data port for remote control access and remote diagnostics. 

Stephen Voller, Chief Executive said: “We are delighted that the Science Museum has accepted our donation and that they will preserve these important technologies for the nation and for future generations to enjoy. I would like to pay tribute to my co-founder Mike Clarke who was the designer and developer of these systems. Mike is a truly gifted engineer, without him these products would not exist and would not
have achieved this world first.”