The JIVE2 project is excited to announce the launch of its second hydrogen bus tour, taking place in Latvia, Estonia, Lithuania, and Poland. Starting in September 2023, the bus tour will include a series of national workshops, test drives, and encounters with the general public as well as local stakeholders.
The first JIVE roadshow aimed to deploy a hydrogen bus roadshow across Central Eastern European cities interested in fuel cell technology, namely in Slovenia, Croatia, Czech Republic, Slovakia and Hungary. The roadshow has been a real opportunity for identified cities to trial the technology and understand the reality of hydrogen transportation.
The first roadshow in numbers"
The public transport operator EMT Madrid ordered ten fuel cell buses from the Portuguese manufacturer CaetanoBus. The H2.City Gold model buses are to be delivered to Madrid by the end of the first quarter of 2024.
5 Solaris Urbino 12 hydrogen buses have been ordered by local transportation provider Hamburger Hochbahn. Hamburg will see the introduction of these zero-emission automobiles as early as the second quarter of 2024.
Rebus Regionalbus Rostock, a company based in Güstrow, has ordered 52 Solaris Urbino hydrogen buses, five of which are articulated
Iveco Group opened its new plant in Foggia, Italy, where battery and fuel cell buses will be manufactured, among other products. The new plant was inaugurated eight months after the foundation stone was laid.
Source: Electrive.com
CaetanoBus has been given a framework contract by the Compagnie des Transports Strasbourgeois (CTS) for the provision of 60 hydrogen buses over the next five years.
Residents of Swansea and Neath Port Talbot will be able to board a hydrogen bus for the first time in May thanks to the city's selection as the site of the vehicle's trial run.
Carburos Metálicos, a leading company in the industrial and medical gases sector in Spain that is part of the Air Products Group, has successfully completed its participation in the circulation and refueling test of a hydrogen bus carried out by the Empresa Municipal de Transportes (EMT) de Valencia.
