HYDROGEN FUEL CELL BUSES FEATURE – EU PILOT STUDY
April 1st, 2006
BY DEIRDRE MASON
IS the fuel cell bus a runner? The question is key to any passenger transport executive's decisions on how to meet increasingly stringent emission controls, and the continuing EU HyFLEET:CUTE trials of a fleet of hydrogen-powered fuel-cell Daimler-Benz Citaro buses in London will help UK transport planners to decide for themselves. The buses have a power output of more than 200kW and carry pressurised hydrogen gas bottles on the roofs. Liquid hydrogen is delivered to the refuelling site, where it is dispensed as a gas to the cylinders. As the ...
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