MEPS BACK NEW EUROPE-WIDE HYDROGEN VEHICLE TECHNICAL STANDARDS
September 1st, 2008
BY KEITH NUTHALL
OVERWHELMING support for a European Union (EU)-wide technical standard for hydrogen vehicles has been secured at the European Parliament. MEPs voted yesterday (2/9) by 644 votes-to-two approving a European Commission proposed set of rules for building these next generation vehicles.
The parliament's spokesman on the issue (its rapporteur) Arlene McCarthy, a British Labour MEP, said: "At a time when petrol prices in Europe have doubled and with ever growing concern about the effects of climate change it is clear we need new hopes for future ...
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