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Mazda officially delivers first Mazda RX-8 Hydrogen RE in Norway

by Sam Abuelsamid on May 13th 2009 at 7:35PM

Mazda RX-8 turnover ceremony
Late last month, Mazda delivered the first of 30 European-spec RX-8 Hydrogen RE cars. At a ceremony in the Norwegian capital of Oslo this week, the vehicles were accepted by Norwegian crown prince Haakon at the opening of one of two new hydrogen fueling stations in Oslo. These stations are part of a new hydrogen fueling infrastructure that Norway is building out along the route between Oslo on the eastern coast and Stavanger on the western North Sea coast.

Also on hand for the event was Norwegian Minister of Transportation, Ms. Liv Signe Navarsete, who drove off in the new RX-8 after the crown prince fueled it up for the first time. Being a dual-fuel car, the Hydrogen RE is capable of running on either hydrogen or gasoline. Besides the switch from right to left hand drive, the European version of the RX-8 also gets a manual transmission in place of the automatic in the Japanese version. Mazda plans to deliver the remaining cars beginning this summer.



[Source: Mazda]


PRESS RELEASE:

Mazda unveils first Norwegian-specification RX-8 Hydrogen RE at Oslo Ceremony

Norway's Crown Prince attends historic event to open two new hydrogen filling stations on the Oslo-Stavanger route.
Norway's Minister of Transportation drives new Mazda RX-8 Hydrogen RE vehicle.
More RX-8 Hydrogen RE facelift vehicles will be delivered for leasing in Norway beginning this summer.

Leverkusen, 11 May 2009. Another environmentally focused solution from Mazda

Saint_Spinner

Cool. But I wanna see the specs.

Christople

slow, expensive, and not practical by todays US standards


still, if they can do it, we should take a look... although obama just cut funding to hydrogen stating it was way off before decent results