BC Transit Fuel Cell Bus Project Evaluation Results : Second Report

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• Creators:
  Post, Matthew ; Eudy, Leslie
• Corporate Creators:
  National Renewable Energy Laboratory (U.S.)
• Corporate Contributors:
  United States. Dept. of Energy. Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy ; Alliance for Sustainable Energy, LLC
• Subject/TRT Terms:
  • Fuel cell vehicles
  • Bus transit operations
  • Evaluation and assessment
  • Electric buses
  • urban transit operation
  • zero-emission buses
  • liquid hydrogen
  • availability
• Publication/ Report Number:
  NREL/TP-5400-62317
• Resource Type:
  Tech Report
• Geographical Coverage:
  British Columbia
• Corporate Publisher:
  National Renewable Energy Laboratory (U.S.)
• NTL Classification:
  NTL-PUBLIC TRANSPORTATION-Bus Transportation
• Abstract:
  Beginning in 2009, British Columbia Transit (BC Transit) led a project to conduct a 5-year demonstration of 20 fuel cell electric buses (FCEB) in Whistler, Canada. The FCEB fleet was introduced during the 2010 Winter Olympic Games and operated through March 2014. The primary goals of the project were to investigate the status of the technology, to demonstrate that FCEBs could provide daily service in an urban transit operation, and to contribute to the provincial government’s climate action goals. During the demonstration it was the world’s largest FCEB fleet in a single location. BC Transit collaborated with the California Air Resources Board (CARB) and the U.S. Department of Energy’s National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL) to evaluate the buses in revenue service. CARB enlisted NREL to conduct a third-party evaluation of the BC Transit fleet to aid in understanding the status of the technology in transit. CARB staff has been gathering data on zero-emission buses to assess the status of the technologies as directed by its Board during the July 2009 hearing
• Format:
  PDF
• Funding:
  DE-AC36-08GO28308
• Download URL:
  https://rosap.ntl.bts.gov/view/dot/36119/dot_36119_DS1.pdf
• File Type:
  [PDF - 2.61 MB]
• Collection(s):
  US Transportation Collection
• Main Document Checksum:
  urn:sha256:0c2e56d82d2eda04f09a118cf0a457f2bd3237c0927ee1856621d66e79a6297d