Fuel Cell Vehicles Meet Classic Cars at Palo Alto Concours d'Elegance

Palo Alto - June 19, 2006: This Sunday, June 25, the California Fuel Cell Partnership will bring a number of hydrogen fuel cell vehicles to the Palo Alto Concours d’Elegance held at Stanford University. The fuel cell vehicles will give the well-known classic car show a flavor of the future. Attendees of the event will have the opportunity to view and test drive the FCVs from DaimlerChrysler, Hyundai, Nissan, Toyota and Volkswagen. The test drive will take place between 9:30AM and 3PM near the event entrance on Oak Street.

Concours d’Elegance gives people the opportunity to see where personal transportation has been and the California Fuel Cell Partnership shows the public where cars are going. The California Fuel Cell Partnership—a collaboration of 31 member companies including auto manufacturers, energy providers, government agencies, fuel cell technology companies and transit agencies—is committed to educating current and future drivers in California about the potential of hydrogen and its use in fuel cell vehicles. FCVs are zero-emissions vehicles that use an electrochemical reaction between hydrogen and oxygen to create electricity to power a vehicle. The only tailpipe emission is water.

CaFCP is committed to promoting fuel cell vehicle commercialization as a means of moving toward a sustainable energy future, increasing energy efficiency, and reducing or eliminating air pollution and greenhouse gas emissions.

For more information about the Concours visit www.paconcours.com. For more information about CaFCP please contact Meghan Blake by phone (916) 870-2016, or email mblake@cafcp.org.