According to Lun Jingguang, a state project coordinator with the China Fuel Cell Bus Program Office, the country’s Ministry of Science and Technology will spend the money over the next five years to conduct research on such vehicles and promote the development of hydrogen cell automobiles.
Professor Ouyang Minggao, with Qinghua University’s Automotive Engineering Department, believes, “China [will] be able to develop buses powered by hydrogen in 2015 and cars in 2020, with the hydrogen cells much cheaper than similar products made overseas.”
Currently Beijing and Shanghai both have hydrogen-fuelled vehicles development programs already into their second-generation and the Chinese government also hope to have hydrogen-powered vehicles up and running at the Beijing 2008 Olympic Games and the 2010 World Expo.
