Viritech publishes call to action for hydrogen tech

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Cleantech engineering company Viritech has published a call to action urging the UK government to prioritise investment in hydrogen technology.

Viritech develops technologies including integrated hydrogen powertrains, vehicle control systems, structural graphene pressure vessels and high-performance energy storage to enable hydrogen application in automotive, aerospace, marine and distributed power generation.

Available here, the company's call to action outlines the UK’s opportunity to take a leadership position on development of clean hydrogen technology to power air, road and marine transport in line with the UK’s climate ambitions ahead of its hosting of COP26 this November.

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Timothy Lyons, Viritech's founder said: “As a nation, we have done a respectable job of not just pioneering lithium-ion technology and advancing battery tech, but our gigafactory potential is way behind other European markets such as Germany and France in terms of both timing and quantum; hydrogen offers the UK the chance to take a lead in an environmentally and economically critical technology, leveraging our amazing domestic capacity for automotive engineering ingenuity.”

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