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The UC Davis Institute of Transportation Studies hosted a Hydrogen and Fuel Cell Vehicle Programs Open House on Monday, October 20, 2003. Over 280 friends of UC Davis attended the event, and many media outlets covered the program and reported on the featured projects. The keynote speakers for the formal program included Chancellor Larry Vanderhoef, California State Assemblywoman Lois Wolk, California Air Board Chair Alan Lloyd, Toyota Fuel Cell Vehicle Executive Yoshio Kimura, ITS-Davis Director Dan Sperling and Vice Chancelor for Research Barry Klein.

The programs featured are listed below. For each program, the poster presented and the one-page description may be viewed and downloaded. Also below are pictures from the Open House.

Thank you to all attendees, and for those that were not able to attend, thank you for your interest in this report. Finally, thank you to all for your interest and support of ITS-Davis.
UC Davis's new H2 fueling station with Bill Reinert (Toyota, L) and Marshall Miller (ITS-Davis, R)

Hydrogen Fueling Station Poster PDF Description
Hydrogen Pathways Research Program Poster PDF Description
Fuel Cell Vehicle Research Program Poster PDF Description
Hydrogen Enriched Natural Gas Bus Poster PDF Description
Diesel Truck Fuel Cell APU Poster PDF Description
Fuel Cell Research Bus Poster PDF Description
 

UC Davis Press Release PDF
KQED SF Public Radio Audio Clip
wired.com Article
The Davis Enterprise Article
The Daily Democrat (Woodland) Article
 
Complete Coverage included: all five local TV outlets KCRA-3(NBC), KXTV-10(CBS),KOVR-13(ABC) KMAX-31(UPN) and Fox 40; Capital TV News Service; San Francisco and local radio stations KQED-FM 89.3 and KFBK-AM 1530; newspapers Davis Enterprise, CaliforniaAggie, Woodland Daily Democrat; and outlets or wired.com , Fleets & Fuels, and Green Car Journal. Stories have also appeared, to date, in Dow Jones News Service's Tech Wrap program and at www.H2cars.biz.
 

UC Davis Chancellor Vanderhoef confirms the campus’s commitment to advanced environmental vehicle research and education. Graduate student Meena Sundaresan test-drives Toyota's latest FCHV delivered to UC Davis at the Open House. Toyota executive Yoshio Kimura affirms Toyota's commitment to fuel cell vehicle research at ITS-Davis and worldwide.
Mechanical Engineering professor Paul Erickson with the first liquid-fueled FC bus in the U.S., now at UC Davis for research and education programs. ITS-Davis students, faculty and staff pose with the hydrogen enriched natural gas bus. UC Davis's Diesel Truck APU project is demonstrated during the program spotlights segment of the Open House.
Dan Sperling addresses the audience. Some of the 280 attendees of the Open House listen to the talks during the formal program. Research Vice Chancellor Barry Klein serves as the MC.