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Detailed explanation-1: -President Ramnath Kovind unveiled the first Indigenous High-Temperature Fuel Cell System. This system is developed by the Council of Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR) under New Millennium Indian Technology Leadership Initiative (NMITLI).

Detailed explanation-2: -Toyota recently launched the Mirai, making it India’s first hydrogen fuel cell EV (FCEV). Union Minister of Road Transport and Highways Nitin Gadkari unveiled the sedan.

Detailed explanation-3: -Union Minister Dr Jitendra Singh unveils India’s first truly indigenously developed Hydrogen Fuel Cell Bus developed by KPIT-CSIR in Pune; Says, the launch is in tune with PM Modi’s National Green Hydrogen Mission.

Detailed explanation-4: -She is known for her independent films and documentaries, including one about Alexander Graham Bell. In 1839, the first fuel cell was conceived by Sir William Robert Grove, a Welsh judge, inventor, and physicist. He mixed hydrogen and oxygen in the presence of an electrolyte and produced electricity and water.

Detailed explanation-5: -The first fuel cells were invented by Sir William Grove in 1838. The first commercial use of fuel cells came more than a century later following the invention of the hydrogen–oxygen fuel cell by Francis Thomas Bacon in 1932.