The Slovak public transport operator Dopravný podnik Bratislava (DPB) has ordered four hydrogen buses from bus manufacturer Solaris. The first four Urbino 12 hydrogen vehicles will be delivered in July 2023.
SASA, Bolzano's public transport operator, will add 13 zero-emission vehicles, three electric and ten hydrogen-powered, all 18 metres long, to its fleet.
By 2030, the fleet will include 400 new hydrogen or battery-electric buses.
Source: Rai News.
The Innsbruck public transport operator Innsbrucker Verkehrsbetriebe (IVB) announced that a hydrogen-powered bus is being tested.
The company plans to use a Solaris Urbino 12 Hydrogen on various lines in the city and the region in the next few weeks to obtain comprehensive conclusions about the daily range.
Source: Mein Bezirk.
Bratislava's public transport operator, Dopravný Podnik Bratislava (DPB), will be the first to operate a fleet of hydrogen-powered buses in Slovakia. The Ministry of Investment approved the project to purchase low-emission buses for the capital and signed an agreement with DPB on a non-refundable financial contribution.
By the end of 2023, 47 additional hydrogen-powered buses will be on the roads of Ile-de-France. The purchase of these buses was approved today, 12 July 2022.
The new buses will join the existing fleet of seven hydrogen-powered buses deployed under the 3Emotion project, co-funded by the Clean Hydrogen Partnership. The latter have been tested since 2019 in real operating conditions.
German transport operator Regionalverkehr Köln GmbH (RVK) has ordered 100 hydrogen-powered fuel cell hybrid buses from Solaris and Wrightbus.
Seven new hydrogen vehicles will be added to the X1 bus fleet in the coming weeks until June, according to the president of Transports Metropolitans de Barcelona (TMB), Laia Bonet. In early April last year, the public transport operator presented Spain's first hydrogen bus on a public transport network and then put it into circulation. Four of these seven buses will be operational from 30 May, while the rest will be operational in June.
Air Liquide, CaetanoBus and Toyota Motor Europe have signed a memorandum of understanding to develop integrated hydrogen solutions. This will include the development of infrastructure and vehicle fleets to accelerate the expansion of hydrogen mobility for light and heavy-duty vehicles.
The Bielefeld transport operator moBiel has started to test four hydrogen fuel cell buses from CaetanoBus in real-life operation. The test is intended to demonstrate, among other things, how far the buses can travel with a 37.5 kg hydrogen tank load.
Source: Sustainable Bus.
The Solaris Roadshow 2022 made a stop in Taranto (Italy) with the presentation on the seafront of the "Solaris Urbino 12 hydrogen" bus, a zero-emission vehicle powered by hydrogen fuel cells.
