106 battery-electric and hydrogen buses will be delivered to Austria. The Austrian transport operator ÖBB Postbus is going to deploy them between 2022 and 2025 throughout Austria.
Madrid will test for the first time a Solaris Urbino 12 hydrogen bus for intercity journeys, which will operate with passengers on one of the lines in service of the public transport network of the Regional Transport Consortium of Madrid.
The city of Jaworzno in Poland started testing the Solaris Urbino 12 hydrogen bus on 2 March 2022. The trials will last four weeks. Local transport operator PKM Jaworzno wants to learn all about what the deployment of hydrogen has to offer in urban transport.
Solaris has won a tender for the delivery of five hydrogen-powered Urbino 12 hydrogen buses to Palma de Mallorca, the capital of the island of Mallorca.
The European Metropolis of Lille, in partnership with ENGIE, has approved the creation of the company Hyléos. Using the electricity produced by the waste from the Halluin Energy Recovery Centre, it will produce renewable hydrogen to power 42 hydrogen-powered buses and five household waste collection vehicles. The deadline is 2024.
The Municipality of Bologna has sent to the Ministry of Infrastructures and Sustainable Mobility the "papers" to access the financing for the purchase of 127 hydrogen-powered buses.
The first 34 vehicles will arrive in December 2024 and the others in June 2026.
The Municipality of Venice will have more than EUR 87 million to purchase 106 hydrogen-powered and 33 electric vehicles for local public transport and build the relevant infrastructure. The funds will be made available through the National Recovery and Resilience Plan (NRP), setting a clear timeframe for implementing the projects. The investment is to be completed by 30 June 2026, with an obligatory intermediate step involving the purchase and commissioning of 33 of these new vehicles by the end of 2024.
On 17-18 November 2021, the fourth edition of the European Zero Emission Bus (ZEB) Conference took place in Paris. With a world-leading Climate Action Plan, underpinned by the international Paris Agreement and national commitment towards a fully decarbonised economy by 2050, Paris provided the perfect venue for ZEB 2021. This conference aims to accelerate the adoption of zero-emission vehicles, sharing information and experiences and offering guidance on the procurement and financing of new fleets.
On 28 October 2021, a large fire broke out in a depot of the transport company Arriva in Doetinchem, in the Dutch province of Gelderland. An investigation by local and regional safety authorities is underway to determine the cause of the fire. A diesel and a hydrogen fuel cell electric bus were in the maintenance building, which was destroyed in the fire. Firefighters and police reported that there were no casualties or injuries. "Unfortunately, the brand-new hydrogen bus has burned down," said an Arriva spokesperson.
The German transport operator ESWE Verkehr officially took delivery of its first Caetano hydrogen fuel cell bus on 5 October 2021. By the end of December 2021, nine fuel cell buses from Portugal will be delivered to Wiesbaden. The mobility service provider has thus reached the next milestone in its corporate history.
