DWV has published a statement on the matter of the fuel cell for transportation which you will find on our internet site among the press releases. To the list of contents Energy and Climate Initiative Matthias Wissmann, federal minister for transportation, presented on 11. The intention is to identify the one or two most promising alternative fuels until the end of 1999 and then find common strategies for their market introduction. Participants are BMW, Daimler-Benz, MAN, and VW as well as ARAL, RWE, and Shell. The decisions for the use of alternative energy technologies must be made early with before the background of the further increasing traffic and the necessity to use the finite resources reasonably.
Many participants see hydrogen as one of the top candidates.
We have no guarantee for success, but we must start. This is not the way The German energy economy could achieve the objective of a sustainable energy system even today if it would make use of its technical potential. This is the result made by the Prognos Institute at Basle for the federal ministry of economy. To the list of contents Politics New wine into old bottles Ecological energy is apparently only hydropower and modern coal technology, at least for the World bank. Saving energy, renewable primary energies, and even natural gas are noted only marginally, hydrogen and fuel cells not at all.