The town of Charlottetown in the small Canadian province of Prince Edward Island had been experimenting with hydrogen powered buses since 2007. But it turns out that, in spite of the environmental benefits, the program was simply too expensive to maintain.
The buses have been shipped back to Ford after sitting in storage for nearly a year. Problem was, the fuel needed to be imported from Quebec, which was quite expensive. And not only that but it took a full two hours to fill up each bus.
The original plan was to use hydrogen produced at a nearby wind turbine farm, but those plans eventually fell through and the two buses relied on funding from the federal government and the actual fuel supplier. When that money ran out, the buses had to be taken off the road.
Hydrogen fuel burns much cleaner than traditional gasoline, with the only emissions being water.
Via the CBC
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