Opportunities and Obstacles for the Introduction of a Fuel Cell Electric Vehicle Strategy in Europe as an Extension of the Product Portfolio of European OEMS

Bekar, Abdurrahman; Fekete, Milan

Opportunities and Obstacles for the Introduction of a Fuel Cell Electric Vehicle Strategy in Europe as an Extension of the Product Portfolio of European OEMS

Management Systems in Production Engineering

Volume 33 (2025): Issue 2 (June 2025)

By:

Abdurrahman Bekar

and Milan Fekete

Open Access

|Apr 2025

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