An Italian company has announced that it is developing a scooter which will be powered by a fuel cell.

GR Grafica is in the process of developing the scooter, which would be the world's first to be powered by a fuel cell and could have a significant impact on the use of scooters as an alternative green technology.

"So far we've been able to manufacture merely four prototypes of the model," GR Grafica's managing director Giacomo Beltramo, said.

However, Mr Beltramo went on to say that his laboratory is carrying out further research and a commercially available scooter could come into existence in the near future, reports UNI news agency.

One of the prototypes was displayed at a recent conference and Grafica is hopeful that the new technology will prove successful in getting more people to use environmentally-friendly vehicles in and around towns and cities.

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