CHICAGO -- While hydrogen as a transportation fuel has faced many challenges over the years—little fueling infrastructure, few vehicle options and high development costs—the winds appear to be shifting in its favor.
芝加哥--尽管在过去的很多年里，氢能做为交通燃料面临着很多的挑战-极少的加氢站，很少的汽车选择权和氢能发展的高成本-现在风向转变了，对氢能的发展有利了。
At the Davos economic forum in Switzerland earlier this year, some of the world’s largest oil companies and automakers agreed to encourage the use of hydrogen as a transportation fuel to help global efforts to meet goals under the Paris climate agreement, Reuters reported.
今年在瑞士达沃斯的世界经济论坛，一些世界知名的石油公司和汽车制造商赞同鼓励氢能做为交通工具的燃料，帮助全球努力达到巴黎气候协定的目标，路透社报道说。
"In this context, we are convinced that the unique contribution that hydrogen solutions offer needs to be strongly reaffirmed now," the participants said in a statement. They include oil giants Royal Dutch Shell and Total, as well as automakers Toyota, Honda, Hyundai, Daimler and BMW.
“ 在这个背景下，出于氢能的独特贡献，我们坚信氢能解决方案的需求再次得到了肯定”。参与者们在一份声明中说。这些企业中包括荷兰皇家壳牌石油和托尔塔，也有汽车制造商丰田，本田，现代，戴姆勒和宝马公司。
Here in the United States, the alternative fuel is beginning a growth spurt that could take it far beyond its traditional California markets.
在美国，可再生能燃料刚开始突飞猛涨，将会远远的超过它的传统市场加州。
Here are four ways the hydrogen market is advancing ...
以下是美国氢能市场开始加速前进的4个方面：
1.California expansion
加州市场的扩张
Royal Dutch Shell PLC is partnering with Toyota Corp. on seven hydrogen fueling sites in California, adding to the state’s total of 25 stations.
壳牌石油跟丰田的合作，在加州建立了7座加氢站，在全州的数量增加到了25座。
The sites may be funded partly by the California Energy Commission, which is weighing $16.4 million in grants, while Shell and Toyota would contribute $11.4 million, according to Bloomberg.
这些加氢站的资金部分由加州能源中心进行支持，总额有1640万美元，壳牌石油和丰田贡献了1140万美元，据彭博咨询报道。
Toyota has made a target to reduce its new vehicle emissions by 90% by 2050, which would require it to shift away from internal-combustion models toward technologies such as hydrogen fuel cell vehicles (FCV), including its Mirai sedan. Shell, meanwhile, has long dabbled in hydrogen fueling. It has seven stations worldwide, including two in the Los Angeles area. The oil giant’s CFO, Simon Henry, recently projected that oil demand could peak in only five years.
丰田的目标是至2050年，它的新汽车的排放要减少90%，这就可能要求它要更换汽车的内燃机模型，进而转向氢能燃料电池车技术，包括它的Mirai轿车。壳牌公司，同时，涉猎加氢站很久了。它在全球范围内有7座加氢站，其中在洛杉矶附近有2座。这家石油公司巨头的CFO，西蒙.亨利，近来预测说石油的需求高峰只有5年了。
2. New Jersey’s initiation
新泽西州加氢站的启动
The borough of Lodi will be the first in the state of New Jersey to host a hydrogen fueling site.
洛迪自治区是将会是新泽西州第一个建设加氢站的地方。
In late February, the local zoning board approved plans from hydrogen infrastructure provider Air Liquide U.S. for the fueling location, which will be at an existing Shell-branded gasoline station on Essex Street. According to The Record, the plan includes the installation of a hydrogen fueling dispenser, storage facility and upgrades to the site.
在二月份末，本地区董事会同意了由美国液空公司加氢站的基础设施建议，将会建在亚瑟斯街的已经存在的壳牌石油加油站那里。根据这个记录，这个计划包括加氢站的安装，加氢的分配器，储氢设备以及对这个加氢站的更新等。
3. New York's integration
纽约州的市场整合
Air Liquide is partnering with Toyota to expand fueling infrastructure on the East Coast as the automaker rolls out the Mirai FCV. In 2017, the team plans to begin building a dozen hydrogen fueling sites in New Jersey, New York, Rhode Island, Massachusetts, Connecticut and Delaware. These include sites under construction in Hartford, Conn., and Braintree and Mansfield in Massachusetts.
液空公司正在跟丰田公司合作，拓展在美国东海岸地区加氢站的建设，因为丰田推出了它的Mirai燃料电池车。在2017年，这个团队计划在新泽西，纽约，罗得州岛，马萨诸塞州，辛辛那提州和特拉华州，建设10几座加氢站。这些在建的加氢站在康涅狄格州哈特福德，马萨诸塞州的布伦特里和曼斯菲尔德。
The Lodi site is located off and Route 17 and is close to the Garden State Parkway and Route 4, which made it an ideal spot, Aaron Harris, technical director for Air Liquide's hydrogen energy systems, told the newspaper.
新泽西的洛迪加氢站坐落于17号国道，临近花园州高速公路和4号高速公司，是一个理想的地方，Aaron Harris，液空公司的氢能系统技术总监告诉本报说。
While New Jersey gasoline stations are full-service by law, hydrogen customers will do their own fueling. The gas station’s employees are being trained to assist.
根据法律，新泽西的加油站提供全方面的服务，顾客可自行进行加氢。加油站的工作人员已经受过培训帮助客户进行加氢。
Air Liquide is also adding two hydrogen fueling sites in New York.
液空公司同样也增加了纽约的2座加氢站。
The company has entered into a long-term lease with Applegreen PLC, a Dublin-based c-store chain that is expanding into the United States, for a location in Hempstead, N.Y.
液空公司跟Applegreen 公司有一个长期租赁的合作，位于都柏林的喜士多连锁店，现在扩张到了美国，在纽约的亨普斯特德。
“We value the opportunity to be one of the first service stations in the Northeast working with Air Liquide to integrate a hydrogen station on-site,” said Joe Barrett, COO of Applegreen PLC. “Integrating the hydrogen station is a beneficial addition for us, as we are able to provide state-of-the-art services to all our customer types, including those with hydrogen fuel-cell electric vehicles.”
“我们非常珍惜这个在美国东北产地区跟液空公司一起合作建设第一座服务型加氢站的机会”， Joe Barrett，Applegreen 公司的COO说。“跟加氢站的合作对我们来说是个有益的补充，我们可为所有类型的客户提供最高水准的服务，包括那些氢能燃料电池车。”
The second lease is for an undisclosed site in Brooklyn, N.Y. Air Liquide plans to have both sites operational by the end of 2017.
第二个租赁地点在布鲁克林，不过并未透露详细地址，液空公司计划这2座加氢在2017年年底实现运营。
4. Milestone price point
氢气零售价的里程碑
A provider of hydrogen fueling infrastructure has announced it has reached a key pricing milestone for the alternative fuel at five of its California fueling sites. The stations are offering hydrogen at less than $10 per kilogram.
一个加氢站基础设施供应商宣布说，已经达到了氢能定价的关键里程碑，因为可再能能源在加州已经有5座加氢站了。这些站点提供的氢气每公斤低于10美元。
Ed Kiczek, global business director for hydrogen energy systems for Air Products, Lehigh Valley, Pa., cited technology advancements for helping the company’s fueling sites reach this price point.
Ed Kiczek，空气产品公司氢能源系统的全球销售总监，在宾夕法尼亚州利哈伊谷，引用了进步的技术帮助公司在加氢站的价格定位。
"There has also been a marked increase in vehicles using our stations, and an even greater outlook for the volume of hydrogen fuel-cell electric vehicles to be coming to market in 2017 and 2018," said Kiczek.
“有越来越多的汽车开始用我们的加氢站，而且可以展望2017-2018年会有越来越多的氢能燃料电池汽车进入市场”， Kiczek说。
Air Products supplies the five hydrogen fueling sites stations from its production facilities in Wilmington and Carson, Calif. The stations are in West Los Angeles, Woodland Hills, Fairfax and Santa Monica, with a fifth opening soon in Lawndale.
空气产品公司利用在加州威明顿和卡森的生产线，为5座加氢站供氢。这些加氢站在西洛杉矶，林地市，费法斯，圣塔莫尼卡，第5座在德尔市即将营业。
