Birmingham University’s hydrogen vehicles praised

• Mar. 17 by Lakhjit Lotay (0)

The University of Birmingham‘s hydrogen cars are being dubbed a saviour to the environment and they hope that this will eventually lead to a hi-tech and low carbon future for the region.

The Midlands’ Microcab and Modec are companies that supports electric vehicles and at the moment, 100 low emission vehicles are being tested within the Midlands.

The Microcab project also explores the inspection of hydrogen as a clean source of energy and at the current moment the project is mainly focusing on two key areas which are transport and energy technologies.

The Midlands region is also lead to have become one of six European regions in a new association which will also be looking at how they can stimulate the growth if low-carbon economies.

Even though still at the testing stage of hydrogen vehicles, they are meant to be very good for the environment in the same sense as electric cars as both of the schemes will cut back CO2 emissions.

Rob Clapham of the University of Birmingham said:

‘There are many projects at the moment taking place in the region, there has recently been £30million project announced in the West Midlands which will trial a 110 electric and hydrogen vehicles on the streets of the Midlands, overall it is paving the way for low carbon and electric vehicles in the future

Hopefully the research the University are carrying out can lead to companies moving into the area and wanting to engage with that, it’s all about developing an industry at the moment.

The Microcab project started all the way back in 2007; it will only be a matter of time before people will be driving low carbon electric cars and a couple of people have already started to drive electrical vehicles as part of a project, I reckon that in the next five to ten years there will be a significant of electric and hydrogen cars rolling out.’