Anglo Platinum takes stake in JM Fuel Cells

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Plug, Connected Energy for web-based fuel cell management In New York, Connected Energy Corporation and Plug Power have signed an agreement to provide Plug customers with a web-based system for centrally managing Plug Power GenSys™ fuel cells. Connected Energy’s COMSYS™ Central Operating Management System means that users can securely monitor operations, access data history, receive alarm notifications, produce reports, and dispatch GenSys fuel cells anywhere at any time. The system can also integrate sitespecific meters and sensors, and other equipment such as chillers and boilers. Data from the disparate sources are transformed into a standardized XML data set and transmitted securely over the Internet encapsulated in a Virtual Private Network (VPN) tunnel. The system provides an intuitive, web-based interface to unmanned sites, and is a key element in enabling widespread distributed generation and cogeneration implementations. Service personnel can begin diagnosing a situation 24/7 at work, home or on the road, to more effectively leverage Plug’s expertise across a wide range of customer sites. Contact: Plug Power Inc, 968 Albany-Shaker Road, Latham, NY 12110, USA. Tel: +1 518 782 7700, Fax: +1 518 782 9060, www.plugpower.com Or contact: Connected Energy Corporation, Four Commercial Street, Rochester, NY 14614, USA. Tel: +1 585 697 3800, Fax: +1 585 697 3880, www.connectedenergy.com

Anglo Platinum takes stake in JM Fuel Cells Platinum group metals producer Anglo Platinum is contributing its share of the intellectual property rights and expertise developed under a 1993 agreement with Johnson Matthey for R&D into fuel cell components and enabling technologies, together with a £20m (US$32m) payment, in return for the 17.5% stake in a new company, Johnson Matthey Fuel Cells Ltd. The new company will manufacture and market all the fuel cell components currently being developed by JM including MEAs, fuel processors and fuel cell catalysts. It will continue to be managed as part of the JM group, and purchase services from the group. The Anglo Platinum relationship will give the new business improved access to future platinum supplies.

Johnson Matthey Fuel Cells was formed in April 2000, as a separate business unit within the Catalysts & Chemicals Division, dedicated to the development and manufacture of catalysts, MEAs, fuel processors and catalyzed components for low-temperature fuel cell systems. It currently employs more than 150 people in its research and manufacturing facilities in Europe, the US and Japan, and is currently constructing a dedicated MEA manufacturing facility in Swindon, UK. Contact: Johnson Matthey Fuel Cells, Regus House, Windmill Hill Business Park, Whitehill Way, Swindon SN5 6QR, UK. Tel: +44 118 949 7095, Fax: +44 118 949 7295, www.matthey.com Or contact: Anglo Platinum, PO Box 62179, Marshalltown 2107, South Africa. Tel: +27 11 373 6111, Fax: +27 11 373 5111, www.angloplatinum.com

Toyota, Honda deliver first leased FCVs in Japan, California In a neck-and-neck race to bring their fuel cell cars ‘to market’, Toyota and Honda have delivered their first vehicles to the Japanese government, and to two universities and the City of Los Angeles in California. In Japan Toyota delivered four leased cars to the Cabinet Secretariat, the Ministry of Economy, Trade & Industry, the Ministry of Land, Infrastructure & Transportation and the Ministry of the Environment, on ¥1.2m (US$10 000) a month contracts lasting 30 months. Toyota expects to lease further FCHV fuel cell/NiMH battery hybrid sport utility vehicles to other government bodies, including central and municipal offices, and energy-related companies. In California Toyota Motor Sales (TMS) USA delivered the first of a total of six ‘market-ready’ hydrogen FCVs to the University of California, Irvine (UCI) and the University of California, Davis (UCD), with the other four following during 2003; as in Japan, each will be leased for 30 months. Toyota plans to establish fully functional ‘model communities’ in northern and southern California, predicated on developing and expanding a hydrogen fueling infrastructure. Working with the California Air Resources Board, South Coast Air Quality Management Board, Stuart Energy and Air Products, the communities will have a network of six refueling stations up-and-running within six months. Meanwhile, Honda has delivered a Honda FCX hybrid fuel cell/ultracapacitor vehicle to the Japanese prime minister’s official residence. The vehicle, built to Japanese specifications, is being leased by the Cabinet Office for ¥800 000 a month (US$6700) on a 12-month contract.

January 2003