California Fuel Cell Partnership To Feature Fuel Cell Vehicles at Fair

    WEST SACRAMENTO, Calif.--July 18, 2001-- The transportation technology of the future can be seen at the Orange County Fair this weekend as the California Fuel Cell Partnership displays automobiles powered by space-age electric fuel cells. The vehicles will be staged near the Fair's Grandstand Arena from Friday, July 20 through Sunday, July 22. A driving demonstration of a fuel cell car will take place in the Arena on Saturday night, July 21, at 7:30 pm.

The vehicles featured for the display at the Fairgrounds include:

--	DaimlerChrysler's Necar 4, an A-Class passenger car popular in Europe;
--	Ford's Focus FCV, a compact passenger car; and
--	Nissan's Xterra, a sport utility vehicle.

    DaimlerChrysler will perform a driving demonstration of their vehicle in the Grandstand Arena just prior to the Fair's "Demolition Derby" on Saturday evening, July 21. Other partnership members - including Ballard Power Systems, Shell Hydrogen, Stuart Energy, Toyota, and the South Coast AQMD -- will provide technology and fuel exhibits, along with other educational displays throughout the weekend at the Partnership's display on the Fairgrounds.
    The Partnership - a pathbreaking collaboration of auto companies, fuel providers, fuel cell technology companies and government agencies - plans to demonstrate more than 70 fuel cell-powered cars and buses in California by 2003, and seeks to demonstrate the potential of this new technology as a safe, practical, clean and efficient alternative to conventional vehicles. The first vehicles are fueled with hydrogen and are zero-polluting - the only emission is a little water and heat.