HYDROGEN BUSES NEWS * WORLDWIDE
* UK - HB for London, next summer
Truro,Cornwall,UK -Gas World, by Hill -5 Nov 2009: -- Five hydrogen fuel cell buses are to be brought to England’s capital and are expected to be in operation from next summer... The Olympic Delivery Authority has granted planning permission for a hydrogen refuelling facility to be built in East London... A fleet of five buses will be operated by the First Group, which has been granted the planning permission for the facility to be located at its bus garage on Temple Mills Lane, Leyton... The five hydrogen hybrid fuel cell buses are due to join Transport for London's (TfL) bus fleet next year, operating on route RV1, which runs between Covent Garden and Tower Gateway... * Canada - Hydrogen Buses Arriving for 2010 Vancouver Winter Olympics
Vancouver,BC,CAN -Eco Friendly -Nov 6, 2009: -- B.C. Transit has announced that the first of 20 hydrogen fuel cell buses will arrive in about a week and a half, on November 17 in Whistler, British Columbia, Canada. The first bus will arrive next Monday and will be in service for passengers the following week... Whistler, BC is one of the end points in the British Columbia Hydrogen Highway system. When complete, visitors will be able to travel from Whistler to Squamish to Surrey to Vancouver to Richmond and then to Victoria and back. The 2010 Winter Olympics will take place in Vancouver, BC... The other 19 hydrogen fuel cell buses will arrive in Whistler before the end of December where they will undergo commissioning and servicing. So far, tests of the fuel cell buses have proven that they can be in service for 22 hours straight and hold up under temperatures of -20C, which may come into play when the 2010 Winter Olympics start in February 2010...
* UK - Buses converted to fuel cells
Sunderland, UK -The Engineer Online -6 November 2009: -- Sunderland University has joined forces with Shanghai’s Shen Li High Technology and local experts ComeSys Europe and AVID vehicles to create ECO2Trans, a project to convert two buses to a fuel-cell, battery and capacitor combination... One North East has sponsored the £314,000 project to convert the two Gulliver U500EUK buses using expertise from companies in China, Germany and the UK... The aim of ECO2Trans, said Kok, is to educate people about the possibilities of hydrogen as a fuel, by demonstrating the efficiency of fuel cells. Sunderland University is also looking to develop the next generation of engineers and technicians to work on low-carbon transport platforms... (Photo from bioage.typepad: Sunderland’s Dirk Kok, Mark Armstrong, Maggie Ren and Adrian Morris with one of the buses)Labels: hydrogen fueled buses
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