The visiting group consisted of Prof. Lun Jingguang, Coordinator of National Project Office, Ma Xingfa, Director of Shanghai Project Office, Prof. Yu Zhuoping and Prof. Gao Weimin, members of Shanghai Project Expert Team.

　　1) GM GAPC

　　The company is located in Mainz, Germany. GAPC reception people include Mr. Thiesen, Mr. Schmidt, staff engineer, and Mr. Herrmann, project leader of H2 fuel cell program. Mr. Thiesen gave a presentation about GM's achievements in the field of FCV. GM set up the GAPC for FCV R&D in 1997. At present, there are more than 500 employees, working in Rochester, Warren and Torrance in USA, Mainz in Germany and Tokyo in Japan. They are separately undertaking R&D of fuel cell materials, stacks, system and prototype. GM focuses on light vehicles in the field of FCV development. In 1997, GM developed "Hydrogen I" FC car based on the Opel Zafira. Now "Hydrogen III" has been unveiled. High power battery is no longer used for auxiliary energy, and the whole fuel cell power train (motor/fuel cell/voltage converter) has been modularized, replacing IC engine power train on the auxiliary frame satisfying the same space requirements. Hydrogen tank (gaseous and liquid, same space arrangement) is placed under the back row seat, which makes the back row is 30mm higher than the original one. The car passed the front crash experiment examination. The top speed is 160km/h. The performance of "Hydrogen III" has approached that of present IC engine cars.

　　Later, Prof. Lun Jingguang made a presentation about the program "Demonstration of Fuel Cell Bus Commercialization in China", Prof. Yu Zhuoping gave an outline of the work progress in Shanghai and Prof. Gao Weimin made a brief introduction about PATAC and reviewed the "Phoenix" FCV developed by PATAC and GM. After that, the experts in GM replied to the questions put forward by the group members.

　　After the discussion, the group visited GAPC's laboratories and "Hydrogen III" prototype. The laboratory facilities include fuel cell stack test-bed, fuel cell engine system experimental bench, vehicle dynamics test bench, the corresponding environment simulation room, prototype assembly shop and so on, many of which are new test-beds for both outsourced and self-developed components.

　　2) Daimler Chrysler Corporation

　　The company is located in Mannheim, Germany. Mr. Walter Rau, General Manager of D-C FC bus program, Dr. Jiang Rencai, General Manager of Eastern Asia market development, Dr. Manfred Schuckert, Development Manager of Quality Assurance Division, and Mr. Oliver Schneider, Manager of FC bus design Division entertained the group.

　　Mr. Rau firstly gave a presentation concerning the D-C FC bus program and the factory in Mannheim, where Karl Benz made the first vehicle in the world. At present the factory mainly produces city buses with yearly output of 2500 and there are 3000-3500 employees. Currently 27 FC buses of EU FC bus program CUTE, 3 FC buses of Australian program STEP (to examine high heat environment performance of the FC bus) and 3 FC buses of Iceland program ECTOS (specially examine the cold environment performance of the FC bus) are being produced in this factory together with common city buses. These FC buses received an on-road license by German Vehicle Management Administration and are warranted for 2 years. Up to now, there's no FC bus that can operate for over 2 years. It is estimated that from 2010 to 2015, D-C FC buses will be put into batch production and commercial operation. The end of 2003 will finish the first generation 33 FC buses required by EU and Australia programs. Two years later the company will accumulate data and decide to develop the next generation models.