"GREEN" BUSES * UK - Fuel cell buses in fast lane to maturity
UTC Power boss predicts hydrogen fuel cell buses will soon be more cost effective than incumbent diesel buses
London,UK -BusinessGreen, by James Murray -13 May 2008: -- Fuel cell-powered buses will soon prove more cost effective than their diesel counterparts as manufacturing costs continue to fall, reliability improves and the price of diesel continues to climb... That is the prediction of Jan van Dokkum, president of UTC Power, the fuel cell division of engineering conglomerate UTC, which this month celebrated the largest US order yet for the company's hydrogen bus fuel cells... Californian bus operator AC Transit has agreed to buy a minimum of eight of UTC Power's 120 kW PureMotion Model 120 fuel cell systems, and Van Dokkum expressed confidence that the firm would exercise its option to procure a further 13 of the systems...
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