HYDROGEN BUSES * Brazil - Launches First Fuel Cell Bus in Latin America
Sao Paulo,Brazil -VOA News (UK) -6 September 2009: -- If you travel by bus in Sao Paulo, Brazil these days your vehicle may be powered by hydrogen fuel cells. The city's urban transportation system recently launched the first of up to five hydrogen buses. The hydrogen reacts with oxygen to produce electricity and water... The bus uses a hybrid system that combines the hydrogen fuel cells with high power batteries. It can be driven three hundred kilometers on the hydrogen cell and an additional fifty kilometers on its batteries... The bus carries passengers in communities around Sao Paulo... The United Nations Development Program, the World Bank and other private, public and international groups supported the project... (Photo: New "clean" bus is expected to reduce pollution in heavily populated Sao Paulo)Labels: hydrogen fueled buses
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