Fiat are today presenting three of their most 'environmentally-friendly' project vehicles, the Panda Panda, Panda MultiEco and Panda Hydrogen, during H2Roma 2006, a two-day conference in Rome dedicated to the pursuit of sustainable motoring. While these cars, along with prototypes from other carmakers', will be displayed in Romeo's Piazza del Popolo for the public to view; the conference speakers' will include Giuseppe Bonollo, the Director Product Portfolio Management of Fiat Auto who will lay out the carmaker's vision for the future in the area of sustainable mobility.

The H2Roma concept was born in 2002, inspired by researchers from Rome's University la Sapienza and from the CNR and ENEA, all the parties committed to developing and exposing the potential of Hydrogen as one of the cleanest energy solutions. Since then H2 Roma has grown into a firm project which aims to develop the "Culture of Energy", by communicating that the future technology is now at hand and making it understandable in order to generate a more conscious attitude towards the cultural change required.

Speeding things up rather than running after them in order to have an edge over any options concerning the future developments offered by the Hydrogen energy vector to a wider and wider audience, is the mission of H2Roma. Hydrogen, with its own characteristics is perfectly complementary to renewable resources, indeed it is able to overcome their limits, that is, variability, aleatory aspects and low energetic density. An energetic model based on these pivot elements allows to create completely closed energy sources cycles: it does not consume finite resources, does not generate waste or negatively affect the environment. The result is a really true sustainable energy system, which is the model that inspires H2Roma activities and ultimately its views of the future. H2Roma reaches its audience through a carefully articulated communication project which is able to project the 'science language' and to make it intelligible to a wider audience. It is an objective mission, able to recognise people’s needs and priorities and to report them to the researchers.
 

This year's H2Roma 2006 conference has seen a swage of leading carmakers taking part. Fiat, BMW, Ford, General Motors, Honda, PSA Peugeot Citroën, Toyota and Volvo have all chosen H2Roma 2006 to speak about their future plans. These companies are the world-wide leaders in innovation and technology and today in the Protomoteca Hall in Campidoglio, they will meet the leading research institutions and absorb independent research on the topic "Energy and Mobility Turnaround: renewable resources, new technologies, new fuels." The Independent researchers taking part today are made up of: CIRPS (Center Interuniversitario di Ricerca for the sostenibile Development of the University of Rome); ITAE (Institute Advance Technologies for the Energy of the National Research Council) and ENEA (Agency for the New Technologies, the Energy and the Atmosphere). They will outline their ongoing projects and the results they have achieved. The carmakers will in turn lay out their own visions and choices on sustainable mobility and as tangible signs they will expose, in the agorà of the advanced technologies, cars and prototypes that already adopt these advanced solutions in the perspective of the zero emissions.

Among the speakers will be Giuseppe Bonollo, Director Product Portfolio Management of Fiat Auto, Dr. Lars Peter Thiesen, Manager Hydrogen & Fuel Cell Strategy of General Motors Europe, Jean Pierre Goedgebuer of PSA Peugeot Citroën and Dr. Niklas Gustavsson for Volvo. Meanwhile on 21 and 22 November, not so far from the Campidoglio, in Piazza del Popolo, an exhibition area, people will have the opportunity to see these greener cars, including the three Fiat prototypes.