City of Burbank to Premier World's First Plug-In Fuel Cell Transit Bus

[jpak]

http://www.marketwatch.com/news/story/City-Burbank-Premier-Worlds-First/story.aspx?guid=%7BBA90DF33-52A2-459F-9632-23179021BB6D%7D

BURBANK, Calif., Dec 17, 2008 /PRNewswire via COMTEX/ -- Demonstration Project to Launch with Zero Emissions Vehicle in Spring 2009

The City of Burbank has been selected as a national test market for a new zero-emissions, ultra-quiet prototype bus that uses a hydrogen fuel cell instead of a diesel or gasoline engine. The breakthrough vehicle will be unveiled in a spring 2009 Downtown Burbank ceremony and then go into immediate service on various routes within the City's BurbankBus network.

Designed and fabricated by Colorado-based Proterra, the revolutionary vehicle can travel 250 miles before needing to be recharged, runs at double the fuel economy of a diesel bus and releases nothing but water from the engine exhaust. In addition to being created and built in this country, it relies on power that is 100% derived from U.S. sources, thereby reducing dependence on foreign energy.

The vehicle features several world-firsts for public transportation:
-- It is the first-ever light-weight composite bus that is purpose-built to
be a plug-in hybrid, offering the advantage of super fuel efficiency
-- It is the first to apply mass-produced smaller output (< 50 kW or
< 67 HP) automotive fuel cells as range extension to a plug-in hybrid
bus, and as such substantially reduces vehicle and lifetime operating
costs
-- And it offers the world's first fast-charge battery technology,
which is capable of fully recharging the battery in a record 6 minutes.
This allows buses to re-power during driver rest breaks.

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[Laelth]

1. This, it seems to me, is very good news. n/t

The United States is a LIBERAL Country.

:dem:

-Laelth

[NNadir]

2. Oh good. We're all saved, at least unitl, two years from now, we have the WORLD'S LARGEST

SOLAR POWERED "PRICE OF SOLAR FALLING BY 2050 TO LESS THAN FREE" bus.

Then of course, we'll be saved again, by 2050.

[jpak]

3. Koo koo, Koo koo. Koo koo

:rofl:

[Systematic Chaos]

4. Go lie down by your dish.

n/t