The Future of Fuel Cell Buses is Here

Fuel Cell technology works and is being used rightworld and they have being working on this
now in many large cities running their bus fleetsproject for a decade. With each upgrade and
and yet there is still more research that needs torendition they are improving performance and
be done. The Fuel Cell Buses are getting morereliability. Typically a fuel cell bus can go about 80
powerful, more reliable and have a much longermiles per hour which is much more than they
range then before.ever really need to go.
In studying the efforts of SunLine Bus, aSunLine is up-grading battery packs to run Li-ion
company in Palm Desert, CA we can see how farbattery packs to replace the PbA battery packs.
Fuel Cell Technology has come. SunLine hasThey are also upgrading with more pressure from
regular bus service using these Hydrogren Cell3,600 to 5,000 psi in the Hydrogen Storage
Buses and has been running them for a numberTanks. Their fuel cells are being replaced with a
of years. They work very well and the citizensnew innovative design - the 75 kW Ballard Fuel
like the idea of riding around in a bus, which doesCell System which also comes with an extended
not pollute.warranty of 12,000 hours of use or 5 years.
Proof of concept is completed and it only takesThose who ride on Fuel Cell Buses have only
will to see Fuel Cells come to fruition in thepositive things to say about them, they are quiet,
Trucking Industry as well. The data shows somepowerful and no smoke. Everyone likes them and
spectacular accomplishments in uptime andbest of all these buses are decreasing America's
maintenance making it a viable option.dependence on Middle Eastern Foreign Oil makes
SunLine Bus is on the leading edge in implementingour nation safer, stronger and cleaner.
these technologies and testing them in the real