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Norway’s first hydrogen cars get the green light

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Norway’s transport minister has approved car-maker Statoil’s two hydrogen-fuelled cars. The cars can now be legally driven on European roads.

$quot;These are the first approved cars of their kind in Norway,$quot; says Brage WÃ¥rheim Johansen, who heads the hydrogen entity in the new energy business unit.

$quot;This is an important approval and a recognition that they are just as safe as conventional ones.$quot;

The cars are one of the elements in the national HyNor project. The project will make driving a hydrogen-fuelled vehicle between Stavanger and Oslo possible by 2009. In August 2006 Statoil opened its first hydrogen pump at its Forus service station near Stavanger.

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