Fleet of New Microcab FCEVs for West Midlands CABLED Trials
26 Sep 2011
Microcab, the FCEV spinoff of Coventry University,
is launching its next-generation H2EV hydrogen vehicle this week
with a fleet to be deployed to the UK's West Midlands CABLED
(Coventry and Birmingham Low Emission Demonstrator)
trials.
The car, the brainchild of the University's
Professor of Sustainable Transport Design John Jostins, combines a
3 kW PEMFC with a Lotus-engineered chassis and has a claimed range
of 100 miles.
The role of Microcab and Coventry University in the CABLED trial
will be to help examine and evaluate (through the University's Low
Carbon Vehicles Grand Challenge applied research programme) the
social and economic impacts of running hydrogen fuel cell vehicles
within a city environment, and ultimately gain a better
understanding of the market potential of hydrogen as an alternative
fuel.
The fleet launch follows the installation of a hydrogen
refuelling station at the University earlier this year and last
week's public hydrogen station
opening in Swindon.
Images: Coventry University
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