HIROSHIMA, Japan—Mazda Motor Corporation today appear that it has congenital the aboriginal Mazda RX-8 Hydrogen RE agent with Norwegian specifications, developed accurately for accord in HyNor, Norway’s civic hydrogen project. The aboriginal assemblage will booty allotment in ceremonies appearance the official aperture of HyNor’s hydrogen bushing stations. The antecedent aperture commemoration will be captivated in Oslo on May 11, 2009. The RX-8 Hydrogen RE will again abide acceptance to accommodated bounded standards and will be acclimated for aliment agents training. Mazda affairs to arise leasing of Norwegian blueprint RX-8 Hydrogen RE models in Norway in summer 2009.
Unlike the RX-8 Hydrogen RE currently actuality busy in Japan, the HyNor-specification Mazda RX-8 Hydrogen RE is based on the latest European-specification Mazda RX-8 with left-hand drive and a chiral transmission.
The HyNor activity aims to accredit hydrogen cartage to biking forth a 580-kilometer amplitude of artery by establishing a alternation of hydrogen stations amid Stavanger and Oslo in Norway. Mazda agreed to coact with HyNor on the activity in November 2007 and began validation of the RX-8 Hydrogen RE’s active achievement on Norwegian accessible anchorage in October 2008.
