hydrogen fuel cell buses

ChatGPT generated panoramic image depicting two professionals standing next to a rusting, abandoned hydrogen-powered bus

Why Do Transit Agencies Keep Falling for the Hydrogen Bus Myth?

In recent months I’ve assembled a long, long list of hydrogen bus trials that ended up with the transit agencies realizing what should have been obvious before they started: hydrogen buses are a lot more expensive and battery electric buses are much cheaper and more reliable. More come out of … [continued]

ChatGPT generated panoramic image of a group of people huddled shivering in a snow covered bus stop beside an out of service bus labeled "H2"

Hydrogen Buses Hurt The People They Are Meant To Help

A sign of a great city is that the rich take public transit. Well, not really. They take light rail and subways. But they don’t take buses. In many cities, light rail systems attract a more affluent ridership compared to buses, highlighting a persistent disparity in public transit usage. Studies … [continued]

ChatGPT generated create a panoramic image of a bus filled with warm passengers driving along a frozen Canadian street

Heat Pumps For Electric Buses Blow Another Meme Out Of Water

Every time I publish anything on electric buses — and I’ve published a lot on them recently — hydrogen bus fans point out that in the west, diesel heaters are often included in buses for winter time use. They say that as if the waste heat from fuel cells was … [continued]

ChatGPT generated panoramic image of a hydrogen bus with lots of representations of high CO2e emissions and a big warning sign about truth in advertising

It’s Against The Law In Canada To Call Hydrogen Buses Zero Emissions

In the middle of 2024, I documented the remarkable disappearance of claims of environmental virtue from the websites and social media of Canadian oil and gas companies and the lobbying groups they employed. Overnight, the degree of factual accuracy on their public sites went up by a remarkable amount. Why? … [continued]

ChatGPT generated panoramic image of Winnipeg City Council looking at a hydrogen bus full of Canadian money on fire

New Flyer Low Emission Buses Too Expensive So Winnipeg Buys Diesel

Into Canada’s ongoing challenges with bus fleet decarbonization comes Winnipeg, which hasn’t featured much so far in the ongoing tale of transit think tank CUTRIC’s incompetence, sole sourcing and hydrogen-centric conflicts of interest. However, it did have a role in a piece assessing Canadian bus manufacture New Flyer’s strategic missteps … [continued]

ChatGPT generated panoramic image of consultants rubbing their hands greedily over a shell game with the shells labelled H2

Deloitte Complicit In Indefensible Brampton Hydrogen Bus CUTRIC Study

In one of my articles related to the debacle that is Canada’s transit think tank CUTRIC’s guidance and modeling on bus fleet decarbonization, especially the Brampton fleet report that was off by about $1.5 billion on a $9 billion price tag, I shared the open letter to the Board I’d … [continued]

ChatGPT generated panoramic image of a pair of scales labeled CUTA with a transit bus labeled "H2" on one scale and a transit bus covered in circuitry on the other.

Agenda Of Canadian CUTA Transit Conference Shows They Have Hydrogen On Brain Too

Globally, there are almost 700,000 battery electric buses in operation and perhaps 6,000 hydrogen buses. In Europe in 2023, about 6,400 new battery electric buses were registered vs. about 140 hydrogen buses. As I noted recently, there have are more hydrogen bus trials that have been abandoned than operational hydrogen … [continued]