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Old July 22nd 08, 12:24 PM posted to uk.transport.london
[email protected] thagor2008@googlemail.com is offline
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Default What happened to the hybrid buses?

On Jul 22, 12:58 pm, Rupert Candy wrote:
On Jul 22, 10:12 am, wrote:

Also, what happened to the few fuel cell buses which operated on the
25 for a while a few years ago once the gimm ^H^H^H^H trial was over?


IIRC they went back to Mercedes for 'evaluation', and one has now been
donated to the Science Museum/LT Museum (can't remember which). Pretty
short life for such expensive vehicles...


According to this page:

http://www.tfl.gov.uk/corporate/proj...ment/2017.aspx

There will be 10 of them by 2010. I'd be interested to know where the
H2 comes from since if its just steam out of natural gas or
electrolysed from water using electricity from coal or gas fired
plants then the whole exercise is just a pointless publicity stunt. If
the purpose is to reduce particulates rather than CO2 emissions then
use petrol or LPG engine buses.

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