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hydrogen's "dirty secret" is that it comes primarily from fossil fuels.
Our first hydrogen fueling facility was opened in November of 2002 at our Richmond Division to operate a single 30-foot fuel cell electric bus.
Back in 2008 Beijing Olympic Games, only 3 units hydrogen fuel cell buses were put into operation. The figure jumped to 196 units in 2010 World Expo held in Shanghai.
But when the Santa Cruz Metropolitan Transport District (Santa Cruz Metro) test-drove one of the "best electric buses money could buy for our needs" — weighing it down with sandbags to replicate the weight of its full passenger capacity — it had problems navigating the steep hills outside the coastal city.
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{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: date and year (link)La technologie hydrogène est prometteuse, confirmait Michaël Delafosse le 4 janvier. Mais nous étions aidés sur l'investissement mais pas sur le fonctionnement. Or, il reviendrait six fois plus cher qu'avec des bus électriques.[Hydrogen technology is promising," confirmed Michaël Delafosse on January 4. But we were helped on the investment but not on the operation. However, it would be six times more expensive than with electric buses.]
hydrogen is considered "brown hydrogen" because of the carbon footprint left by producing the fuel, which is made almost entirely by natural gas. Green hydrogen, which is hydrogen fuel produced and delivered with zero emissions, remains cost-prohibitive.
Hydrogen buses have a longer range, about 300 to 350 miles per refueling, versus 175 to 200 miles per charge for an electric battery. Since hydrogen buses need to refuel only by filling their tanks up with hydrogen gas, they take about 15 minutes to fuel; battery electric buses can take several hours to recharge. And since hydrogen buses have only a hydrogen tank and a fuel cell, they can be as much as 11,000 pounds lighter than a bus lined with heavy electric batteries, making their travels less taxing on roads and bridges.
Tree told me that Metro, in the early stages, would be looking at about $9 to $13 per gallon equivalent of compressed hydrogen fuel. In California, diesel rose to an average price of about $6.43 per gallon as of Sept. 28. Tree was quick to note, however, that hydrogen fuel cell vehicles get more than twice as much mileage out of a gallon-equivalent of hydrogen as a gallon of diesel, evening out the overall cost per mile.
The MTA says they have committed to a zero-emission bus fleet by 2040.
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