While battery electric buses are seen as a way to lower air pollution, hydrogen-powered buses could be the answer on long distance routes electric don't have the range for.
after being awarded an $8 million grant in November to buy two New Flyer hydrogen fuel cell powered buses and to outfit the Gun Hill Road bus garage in the Bronx with hydrogen fueling equipment. Those buses will be tested until the end of 2024., the agency has researched hydrogen bus use by other transit agencies around the world, said Jim Smith, a spokesman.
Battery range drops further in cold weather and when electric heating systems are used, NJ Transit officials said.in Illinois replaced 20-year old diesel buses with two hydrogen powered buses in 2021 and has its own hydrogen fuel production station powered by solar energy to turn water into hydrogen, MTD officials said. It can fuel 12 to 15 hydrogen buses. Plans call for hydrogen buses to make up 70% of the bus fleet by 2040.“It’s not a combustion process. It’s an electrochemical process.
“This is a potential role for fuel cell buses in a future where NJ Transit is fully zero emission,” Smith said. “The key thing is before we focus on hydrogen, we need to make sure that there’s funding in place to ensure that we are hitting the electrification mandates in the governor’s 2020 EV law,” he said.
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