Bar Ilan University is testing an experiment in a shuttle that will run on hydrogen

Prof. Aryeh Tsavan, President of Bar-Ilan University, and Yossi Rosen, Chairman of the Israel Energy and Environment Institute, announced cooperation as part of a meeting of senior officials in the energy industry

Hydrogen-based propulsion was at the center of the meeting of energy industry executives initiated by the Israel Energy and Environment Institute in collaboration with Bar-Ilan University. Israel has the tools to be a renewable energy powerhouse and to be a global laboratory for groundbreaking innovations in the field. The political situation also affects the energy industry and the lack of an elected government was the topic with which Yossi Rosen, chairman of the Israel Energy and Environment Institute, opened the discussion at the event of the CEOs' and Chairmen's Forum in which the senior CEOs of the energy industry took part: "In a situation where We are, without regulators, it is very difficult to promote processes, but the world is moving forward and we also need to be creative and work in cooperation."
Yossi Rosen announced a collaboration with Bar-Ilan University, which has groundbreaking academic research in the field of alternative energy. At the initiative of Prof. Aryeh Tsavan, working relationships developed in the fields of energy and joint working groups of institute representatives were established with researchers from Bar-Ilan University. Prof. Lior Elbaz, who leads the field of hydrogen at the university, and Prof. Doron Orbach, head of the electrochemistry group at Bar Ilan University and head of the National Electric Propulsion Center, spoke at the conference.

Prof. Aryeh Tsavan, president of Bar-Ilan University, has been accompanying the field of alternative energy for the past three decades as a researcher, entrepreneur and now as president of a university that deals extensively with renewable energy research. Prof. Tsavan: "This is no longer science fiction but something acute for the survival of the human race. This is one of humanity's most significant challenges and we intend to continue to be at the forefront of research in the field while cooperating closely with industry."

Bar-Ilan is a green campus that serves as an urban laboratory for a wide variety of experiments with environmental implications.

Prof. Tsavan announced at the meeting a unique experiment for Bar-Ilan University in which they are looking into the possibility that a hydrogen-based shuttle will join the campus transportation system and transport students from place to place. Today, Bar-Ilan operates five electric shuttles, including those that have been made available for the transportation of people with disabilities, and has already received permission from the Ministry of Transportation to add an autonomous shuttle that will soon begin transporting students on campus, as part of an ongoing experiment. The hydrogen-based shuttle/car project is currently under consideration with a number of leading companies in the field. The initiative and research in the field is led by Prof. Lior Elbaz, head of the Israeli Consortium for Fuel Cells at Bar-Ilan University.

Prof. Lior Elbaz said at the conference: "Energy controls us in all areas of life, but it has consequences. The temperatures are rising and the younger generation, who are living the consequences, are listening to Greta and not to the leaders, so they are reducing consumption. We have alternative Argya sources, it's not a dream, it's already been done in the world. California is a good model for this and India and Germany are also going there. They understood that with batteries it is difficult to move large markets."

Prof. Doron Orbach, Head of the Electrochemistry Group at Bar Ilan University and Head of the National Center for Electric Propulsion.
He said at the conference: We are not in the ivory tower anymore, we manage to combine basic science and applied science in order to serve the State of Israel and its strategic power. It is very important to know that the State of Israel, although it is small, from a scientific point of view it occupies a much larger volume than its relative size, and precisely in the field of electrochemistry and lithium batteries we have an excellent position at the forefront of the world, there is intensive work in Israel in general and in Bar-Ilan in particular on the development of rechargeable lithium batteries "

The Forum of CEOs and Chairmen of the Israel Energy and Environment Institute is the senior forum of the energy industry in Israel, which includes chairmen and CEOs of the major energy, infrastructure and chemical companies. The purpose of the forum is to discuss strategic and technological issues concerning the growth of the energy economy in the world and in Israel. The chairman of the institute is Yossi Rosen and the CEO is Yossi Aryeh.