Mazda Motor Corporation and HyNor (Hydrogen Road of Norway) will collaborate in the development of hydrogen fuel and hydrogen vehicles.
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HyNor chairman Ulf Hafseld and Seita Kanai, a director and senior managing executive officer in charge of research and development at Mazda, have signed a memorandum of understanding for collaboration and support in the development of a hydrogen economy.
The memorandum states that HyNor intends to purchase 30 RX-8 Hydrogen RE vehicles commencing summer 2008m the first hydrogen vehicles the automaker has sold outside Japan.
“HyNor is very pleased to sign this agreement with Mazda and we think this cooperation will speed up the process of introducing hydrogen as a zero-emission fuel”, said Hafseld.
“By using the internal combustion engine as a feasible technology to accelerate realisation of the real hydrogen world, we can develop a hydrogen infrastructure much faster.
HyNor is focusing on a carbon neutral infrastructure, and using hydrogen in the cars will ensure a complete carbon free line of fuel.”
HyNor is a unique Norwegian joint industry initiative to demonstrate real life implementation of a hydrogen energy infrastructure along a route of 580 kilometres from Oslo to Stavanger in Norway.
The project comprises all steps required to develop a hydrogen society with adaptation to local conditions. The joint project is planning for various means of transport: buses, taxis and private cars and varying types of transport systems: urban, inter-city, regional and even long-distance national transport.
In August 2006, Mazda attended a ceremony which commemorated the opening of Norway’s first hydrogen filling station created by HyNor. This is also where the first on-road demonstration of a RX-8 Hydrogen RE vehicle outside Japan was held.
