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H2 Olympics power: BC Transit gets first fuel cell bus with Ballard stack

Over two years ago, we first learned the British Columbia Transit was planning to acquire 20 fuel cell-powered buses for use in the Whistler area ahead of the 2010 Winter Olympics. The first of those buses was recently delivered to the transit company with the rest arriving over the coming weeks and months. The 20 bus-fleet will be the single largest deployment of hydrogen-fueled buses in the world. The buses are built on chassis supplied by ISE Corporation and use fuel cell stacks supplied by Ballard Power Systems. Ballard sold off its ... Read more →

Mercedes-Benz testing Citaro FuelCELL hybrid bus Jeremy Korzeniewski

Mercedes-Benz has a history of introducing various fuel saving technologies to its line of commercial buses. The automaker first began experimenting with fuel cells in bus platforms back in 1997, ...

Ballard gets contract to supply fuel cells for British Columbia bus fleet Sam Abuelsamid

A couple of months ago we reported on plans to have a fleet of fuel cell buses in British Columbia including twenty of them in the ski town of Whistler. The buses will be in operation by 2009 in ...

Whistler BC to get fleet of fuel cell buses Sam Abuelsamid

Many of the world's best winter athletes will be converging on Whistler, British Columbia in early 2010 for the next Winter Olympic games and they will be followed by thousands of tourists. When ...

First fuel cell hybrid bus hits the road in Connecticut Sam Abuelsamid

The first fuel cell hybrid bus in New England has entered service in Hartford, Connecticut with CTTRANSIT, the state-owned regional bus service. United Technologies division UTC Power is providing ...

Ballard Power Systems to motivate buses in Washington DC and upstate New York 3 years ago on Autoblog Green

Ballard Power Systems has announced a pair of programs to put some more fuel cell powered buses on the road in Washington DC and in upstate New York. Federal Transit Administrator James Simpson announced that the FTA will be funding a $49 million fuel cell bus research and development program. $13 ...

Stretch Batmobile might one day be used for public transportation 3 years ago on Autoblog Green

Every wanted to ride in a stretch limo at 155 miles an hour? How about a stretch limo that looks like the Batmobile? If the Delft University of Technology gets the Superbus public transportation concept off the drawing board, you'll get your chance. The news of the Superbus came out last month in ...

Proton Motor Delivers Fuel-Cell Hybrid Midi-Bus 3 years ago on Autoblog Green

German based Proton Motor Fuel Cell has developed a hybrid fuel cell powertrain that includes a nickel-metal-hydride battery pack that they have installed into the first of a series of buses. The first of these mid-sized buses was recently delivered to the city of Carth in Germany. The fuel cell ...


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