Conceptualising your fuel cell bus project

Conceptualising your Fuel Cell Bus Project: Resources to get started

General

• Knowledge of Local/Regional/National zero and low emission vehicle policies. For example:
  • The “Clean Vehicles Directive” on the promotion of clean and energy-efficient road transport vehicles has recently been revised. It is going to impact on the procurement strategies of PTAs/PTOs: https://eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-content/EN/ALL/?uri=CELEX:32009L0033
• FCH JU has co-funded the major FCB demonstration projects under the 7^th Framework Programme and Horizon 2020. It can be expected that its work is going to continue under Horizon Europe (2020 - 2027), particularly in terms of promoting “hydrogen regions.” https://www.fch.europa.eu/
• Basic properties of hydrogen including comparisons with other energy carriers/fuels: http://www.h2data.de/

Dedicated resources for Funding, Planning and Procurement can be found in corresponding tables in the following chapters.

Note: A paper documenting all European Union Policies that link to FCBs will be published as part of the JIVE 2 project by December 2020.

Setting up an FCB Project

• Visiting and talking to experienced cities in your country/elsewhere in the EU
• An “Operators Guide’ to Fuel Cell Bus Deployment” can be found on
• https://fuelcellbuses.eu/projects/jive-2
• More reports from JIVE and JIVE 2 will become available over the coming months at https://fuelcellbuses.eu/projects/jive and https://fuelcellbuses.eu/projects/jive-2. They will include details on the different local projects, such as FEBUS in Pau (France) as part of JIVE 2:
• https://fuelcellbuses.eu/public-transport-hydrogen/brochure-fuel-cell-bus-pau-busworld-2019
• Reports from CHIC project for FCB demonstration (2010 – 2016): https://fuelcellbuses.eu/projects/chic including:
  • Recommendations for Hydrogen Infrastructure in Subsequent Projects
• Reports from the NewBusFuel project on a large scale HRSs, including a Guidance Document: http://newbusfuel.eu/publications/

Information to assist Communications 

• Further reports from CHIC project at https://fuelcellbuses.eu/projects/chic including:
  • Influencing factors to the acceptance of fuel cell and hydrogen technologies in public transport (focussing on bus drivers, stakeholders and the general public)
  • Extract from the above report with key learnings
  • Issues of concern to external stakeholders and critics and pathways to their resolution; also includes an update of this report regarding changing views after two years
• “People, Transport and Hydrogen Fuel: Guidelines for Local Community Engagement when Implementing Hydrogen-Powered Transport”, from the HyFLEET: CUTE project (2006 – 2009) https://fuelcellbuses.eu/publications
• “Sustainability Assessment of FCBs in Public Transport”, March 2018
• http://www.mdpi.com/2071-1050/10/5/1480/pdf