Fuel Cell Buses * USA - A Tale Of Two Transit Agencies
In the San Francisco Bay Area, two public transit agencies are conducting trials with "Zero Emission Buses", or ZEBs
San Francisco,CAL,USA -PLANetizen: Front Page, by Irvin Dawid -3 March 2008: -- ... They are using different types of hydrogen fuel cell technologies, with very different results... Current trials are producing mixed results... A new report from the Santa Clara Valley Transportation Agency has shown that the fuel cell buses are extremely costly to operate. Consequently, VTA wants to drop the hydrogen trial and purchase diesel-hybrid buses... Meanwhile, results from across the Bay at AC Transit have shown a vastly different outcome, presumably because a different type of fuel cell technology was used... They "operated hydrogen-hybrid buses for two years, ones that also use electrical batteries to help cut hydrogen fuel costs and provide a smoother ride and easier acceleration and braking, much like in hybrid cars. Officials at the agency are sold on the program"...
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