# California Fuel Cell Partnership Opens 1st Satellite

> Hydrogen Fueling Station
>
> The California Fuel Cell Partnership (CaFCP) today commissioned its
> first \"satellite\" hydrogen fueling station in the San Francisco Bay
> Area, providing clean fuel for fuel cell electric vehicles. The
> station - an electrolyzer system using electricity and plain water to
> make hydrogen - represents another step forward for demonstrating
> alternatives for a hydrogen fuel cell vehicle infrastructure.
>
> The fueling station is located at the AC Transit bus facility in
> Richmond,
>
> California. The equipment is manufactured and installed by Stuart
> Energy of Ontario, Canada. Both AC Transit and Stuart Energy are
> members of the CaFCP. The partnership also contributed resources and
> expertise to the project. The primary purpose of the fueling station
> is to serve automotive companies affiliated with the CaFCP, who
> operate their fuel cell vehicles at the CaFCP headquarters in West
> Sacramento. The two locations are about 70 miles apart. The station is
> an important part of the partnership\'s continuing effort to
> understand and develop technologies needed to bring the vehicles to
> market. \"This is a key achievement for the partnership this year - to
> be able to extend the test-drive range of our fuel cell vehicles
> beyond the Sacramento area, and to learn about potential fueling
> infrastructure technologies through real-world experience,\" said Don
> Huberts, CaFCP Chairman and CEO, Shell Hydrogen.
>
> Jon Slangerup, President and CEO of Stuart Energy said, \"This station
> is
>
> important for us and for the future of hydrogen fuel. Lack of a
> hydrogen
>
> fueling infrastructure is commonly cited as a challenge to the
> introduction of fuel cell vehicles. Stations such as this are directly
> addressing this challenge. Stuart Energy\'s hydrogen fueling products
> are cost-effective, clean, convenient and available today. This
> station is a critical first step that could ultimately form the
> foundation of a hydrogen-fueling infrastructure for emission-free
> hydrogen-powered vehicles.\"
>
> AC Transit General Manager Rick Fernandez said, \"AC Transit begins an
>
> exciting new chapter in its 42-year history with the opening of this
>
> hydrogen fueling station at our Richmond Operating Division. We are
> proud to be members of the California Fuel Cell Partnership and to
> join cooperatively with Stuart Energy and other members of the
> Partnership in a determined effort to prove to the world the value of
> hydrogen and fuel cells.\"
>
> CaFCP News
>
> The hydrogen station, with a storage capacity of 47 kilograms of
> hydrogen,
>
> is capable of supplying the daily fueling needs of a small fleet of
> vehicles at a fueling rate of one to two minutes per vehicle.
> Additional satellite stations for fuel cell vehicles are planned in
> the next few years throughout California.
>
> Ceremonies featured a demonstration of quick and easy fueling of four
> fuel
>
> cell cars manufactured by DaimlerChrysler, Ford, Hyundai, and Toyota,
> before a crowd of several hundred people from the Richmond community,
> public officials and CaFCP.
>
> The California Fuel Cell Partnership is a voluntary effort to advance
> a new vehicle technology that could move the world toward practical
> and affordable environmental solutions. The Partnership will
> demonstrate fuel cell-powered
>
> electric vehicles under real day-to-day driving conditions; will
> demonstrate the viability of an alternative fuel infrastructure
> technology; explore the path to commercialization; and increase public
> awareness of fuel cell electric vehicles. The Partnership expects to
> place about 60 fuel cell passenger cars and fuel cell buses on the
> road by 2003. For more information, visit
> [http://www.fuelcellpartnership.org](http://www.fuelcellpartnership.org/).
>
> For more information, please contact the California Fuel Cell
> Partnership
>
> at: 916-371-2870 or by email: info@cafcp.org
> \<mailto:info@cafcp.org\>.
>
> Kim Burmahln
>
> South Bay Clean Cities Assistant Coordinator
>
> City of San Jose - Environmental Services Dept.
>
> 777 N. First Street, Suite 300
>
> San Jose, CA 95112
>
> \(408\) 277-4312
>
> \(408\) 277-3606 - fax
>
> <kim.burmahln@ci.sj.ca.us>
>
> Article provided by:
>
> Wednesday, October 30, 2002
>
> Joe Irvin
>
> 916- 371-2899
>
> cell: 916-600-2564
>
> jirvin@cafcp.org
>
> www.cafcp.org