Hydrogen station to be built in Shanghai

Dec. 22, 2005
Shell Hydrogen BV and Shell (China) Ltd. signed an agreement with Tongji University in Shanghai to build Shanghai's first hydrogen filling station for fuel-cell vehicles.

By OGJ editors
HOUSTON, Dec. 22 -- Shell Hydrogen BV and Shell (China) Ltd. signed an agreement with Tongji University in Shanghai to build Shanghai's first hydrogen filling station for fuel-cell vehicles.

The station, expected to be completed by yearend 2006, is part of a Ministry of Science and Technology program to develop electric vehicles.

The city of Shanghai expects 1,000 fuel-cell vehicles to be in operation by 2010, including buses sponsored through a United Nations development program.

Tongji University will develop and operate the hydrogen station. Shell will contribute technical advice and funding.