Hydrogen bus fleet in Ústí nad Labem (Czech Republic)
Photo by Jeremy Mosley (Pexels)
In August 2021, a project to develop a fleet of about 20 hydrogen-powered buses in Ústí nad Labem was announced. The regional media reported that the project’s implementation and the building of related infrastructure would have a chance to obtain a considerable European subsidy, as it received the status of a strategic project of the Ústí Region within the Just Transition Operational Program. The transport company estimated the cost of the project at 723 million Czech crowns (about EUR 29 million, and the subsidy should amount to 85 percent).
The project consists of the construction of hydrogen purification technology, a hydrogen filling station, the reconstruction of bus maintenance workshops and the purchase of the vehicles itself. At the public filling station, the company expect unattended operation non-stop seven days a week. Cars and trucks are expected to have the opportunity to pump from the pressure tanks there, at a filling speed of three to four buses per hour. This is an adaptive, and potentially transformative strategy at a middle transition stage.
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