本物の gas guzzlers get their fill as UK's first public hydrogen 燃料 駅／配置する opens in Swindon

By Ray Massey, 輸送（する） Editor
Updated: 17:51 BST, 20 September 2011

Britain’s first public filling 駅／配置する for 汚染-解放する／自由な cars that run on hydrogen 燃料 has opened in Swindon.

The ‘gas’ 駅／配置する is 位置を示すd at car 製造業者 Honda's South Marston 工場／植物 and 存在 seen as an important step in a UK-wide 計画／陰謀 to make hydrogen 乗り物s a viable 代案／選択肢 to 石油 and ディーゼル driven cars.

専門家s 収容する／認める there are 現在／一般に only a handful of cars in the country 有能な of using hydrogen 燃料 ? but 予報する that within a few years there will be ‘hundreds of thousands, if not millions’ as 製造業者s such as Honda put more 原型s into 生産／産物.

On 傾向: Britain's first public filling 駅／配置する for 汚染-解放する／自由な cars that run on hydrogen 燃料 has opened in Swindon

The 汚染-解放する／自由な cars use the gas in a 燃料-独房 which creates a 化学反応 that 解放するs energy in the form of electric 力／強力にする to 運動 the wheels ? with? 無 exhaust 放出／発行s apart from water which is pure enough to drink.

Honda’s own FCX Clarity was の中で eight hydrogen-力／強力にするd cars 列ing up for a fill-up on Tuesday ? 含むing a London Taxi, Mercedes-Benz 救急車, a London Bus, and a micro-cab.

顧客s have a smart-card account and are 法案d for their usage. Honda reckons that the hydrogen 作品 out around 5p per litre 同等（の） cheaper than 従来の 石油.

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The Honda FCX Clarity - the first commercially produced hydrogen-力／強力にするd car

The new filling 駅／配置する is 存在 seen as an important step in a UK-wide 計画／陰謀 to make hydrogen 乗り物s a viable 代案／選択肢 to 石油-driven cars.

Honda's hi-tech eco-friendly FCX Clarity is the world's first 生産／産物 hydrogen-力／強力にするd? '燃料 独房' car? - with its own on board 力／強力にする 駅／配置する that creates electricity to 運動 its electric モーター.

It has a 範囲 of? 280 miles, a 最高の，を越す 速度(を上げる） of more than 100mph, and can sprint from 残り／休憩（する） too 60mph in 9 seconds, yet 放出するs nor harmful 汚染.
In the USA it is 賃貸し（する）d for around £400 a month ? 同等（の） ot a car costing £30,000 to buy - though the 開発 models cost nearly £10million to produce.

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Hollywood actress US actress Jamie 物陰／風下 Curtis - who starred in 'A Fish Called Wanda' and horror movies 'Halloween' and 'The 霧' ? was の中で the first to take 配達／演説／出産 of the 乗り物, 40 of which are in use in the USA.
The only drawback? Finding somewhere to fill it up. Until now.

At the Swindon ‘gas’ 駅／配置する, the hydrogen is pumped under 圧力 into the 171-litre 燃料 戦車／タンク at the 支援する of the car.

Professor Kevin Kendall a hydrogen and 燃料 独房 専門家 from Birmingham University said: ‘A hydrogen car is cleaner than an ordinary car. It will do more miles to the gallon and be more 効果的な than a 従来の 燃焼 car.’

‘This will clean up cities enormously. There are no 放出／発行s どれでも.’

He 追加するd: ’Every big 製造業者 is making a hydrogen car with a 燃料 独房. By 2015 to 2020 when it all kicks off, there will be hundreds of thousands? if not millions of these around.’

Hydrogen is the 高度に flammable? はしけ than 空気／公表する gas used to give '解除する' to airships like the Zeppelin - most famously the Hindenburg which 爆発するd in 炎上s in the 1930s - though scientists say it was aluminium イオン the exterior paint that 原因（となる）d the 爆発. But Honda and academics? and? other car-製造者s says it is safer than 石油 ? and 申し込む／申し出s three times better 燃料 efficiency than a 伝統的な, 石油-力／強力にするd car.?

Professor Kendall said 消費者s should not be 関心d about the ‘Hindenburg 影響’: ‘It’s just like 石油. You have to be careful.’

Although there are a number of 私的な hydrogen filling 駅／配置するs in the country, this is the first public one. The 目的（とする） is to ‘kick-start’ the 運動 to hydrogen cars by ending the ‘chicken and egg’ conundrum: that people won’t buy hydrogen cars unless there is a 網状組織 of filling 駅／配置するs ? dubbed a ‘hydrogen 主要道路’ ? to fill them up.

Swindon Borough 会議's regeneration 団体／死体, 今後 Swindon, was awarded a £250,000 認める from the South West England 地域の 開発 機関 ーするために build the 燃料 駅／配置する at Honda in Swindon.

今後 Swindon 大統領 Ian Piper said: ‘It's 絶対 ground-breaking stuff. It is the first one in the UK and we think it's 広大な／多数の／重要な that Swindon is at the 最前部 of this.

’’We have got to start putting in the 組織／基盤／下部構造 to kick-start the 開発 by the 製造業者s.It 論証するs that Swindon can be an innovative place.’

‘The car-making 部門 is very important to Swindon, and it's important for Swindon to be at the 主要な 辛勝する／優位 in this way.’

BOC, the UK's largest 供給者 of 産業の gases, has 任命する／導入するd and is operating the 施設. As one of the 事業／計画（する） partners, the gases company is also 供給するing その上の 私的な 部門 基金ing to the 投機・賭ける.

John Kingston, 環境の 経営者／支配人 of Honda UK said:'Honda is proud to 申し込む／申し出 an 代案／選択肢 energy 解答 that could 減ずる our dependence on 化石 燃料s and the 影響 of モーターing on 気候 change.’

The ‘Hydrogen 主要道路’ 率先 has been 始める，決める up to 促進する the viability of new, 代案／選択肢 燃料 科学（工学）技術s and build a number of hydrogen-fuelling 駅／配置するs across the south west.