Fleet News Europe reports that Ford is planning to sell a mass-produced hydrogen fuel cell vehicle into the German fleet market. The report says that from 2010, Ford believes it will be manufacturing at least 50,000 units of the vehicle per annum.

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Dr Franz-Martin Dubel, Ford of Europe’s alternative powertrains marketing manager, told Fleet News Europe at a media briefing in Aachen that Ford is planning to run the first vehicles with small fleets in Germany and California in 2004, with full launch slated for 2010.


In January, the US government announced a programmme with the heads of GM, Ford Motor Co. and the Chrysler arm of DaimlerChrysler AG, to develop a “Freedom Car”. Under the “Freedom Car” programme, the government will help to fund research into fuel cells with the aim of speeding up the technology’s eventual arrival onto the market.

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