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and inject it into mobile reservoirs. ArianeGroup, in partnership with CMA CGM and Engie, plans to install a demonstrator in a port from 2025 and market in 2030.
The French have also been looking at urban air mobility closely (ex: air taxis, integration into urban airspace, maintenance, charging etc); the French greater Paris region airport rail transportation and investment authorities recently held a competition revolving around urban air technologies. Categories included vehicles, infrastructure, operations, air space integration and acceptability.
About 30 international companies were selected and will join the competition’s first laureate, Velecopter, to show demonstrators and begin testing at the Pontoise airfield starting next June. The idea is to work with French and European safety and regulatory authorities and to test some of the technologies (like the Volocopter Volocity air taxi) during the 2024 Paris Olympics.
France wants to ensure its autonomy with hydrogen production
Two large French companies, Total and Engie, join forces to produce renewable hydrogen on a large scale. Powered by solar farms with an aggregate capacity of over 100 MW, the 40 MW electrolyzer will produce five tons of green hydrogen per day.
The two energy companies signed a cooperation agreement to design, build and operate the largest renewable hydrogen production site in France, in the PACA region. Construction and installation will start in 2022 and production in 2024. This project is subsidized by the French and European authorities.
France is pushing the development of autonomous vehicles
About thirty actions are planned over the next two years to strengthen the autonomous vehicle ecosystem in France and for the deployment of automated road mobility services. It requires the precision of the regulatory framework set by the French Mobility Orientation law (LOM), the establishment of cybersecurity criteria, and the establishment of benchmarks to allow the circulation of autonomous vehicles without an operator from 2021. These vehicles will be able to welcome the public from 2022.