March 13, 2010

Instead of relying on those overhead lines, the new hybrid-powered bus gets its juice from a fuel-cell. The hydrogen hybrid bus, decked out in an eco-friendly green and blue paint scheme, could represent the next generation of buses for BC Transit. The idea is that these buses will eventually replace the ones that are still running on fossil fuels. They're not quite ready for a provincial-wide rollout just yet, as this Victoria edition is an "alpha bus," but the working prototype is "ahead of any other buses globally."
The hybrid powertrain is a combination of batteries that need to be recharged at night and hydrogen fuel tanks which are stored in the roof of the bus. With a full 29 kilogram load of hydrogen, the bus can travel up to 480 kilometres. A slight step up in size from the hydrogen powered technology we've seen most recently.
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