India unveils its first indigenously developed Hydrogen Fuel Cell Bus

The government of India unveils the newly developed Hydrogen Fuel Cell Bus, developed by KPIT-CSIR in Pune. Addressing the gathering, he said that Prime Minister Modi’s hydrogen vision is important for India. The project ensures ‘Atma Nirbhar’ means of affordable and accessible clean energy, meeting climate change goals and creating new entrepreneurs and jobs. The fuel cell uses hydrogen and air to generate electricity to power the bus, and the only effluent from the bus is water, thus making it possibly the most environmentally friendly mode of transportation.

Commenting on the launch, Dr Jitendra Singh, Union Minister of State (Independent Charge) Science & Technology; Minister of State (Independent Charge) Earth Sciences; MoS PMO, Personnel, Public Grievances, Pensions, Atomic Energy and Space, said “Green hydrogen is an excellent clean energy vector that enables deep decarbonisation of difficult-to-abate emissions from the refining industry, fertiliser industry, steel industry, cement industry, and also from the heavy commercial transportation sector.”

For comparison, a single diesel bus plying on long-distance routes typically emits 100 tonnes of CO2 annually, and there are over a million such buses in India.

Singh said, “The high efficiency of fuel cell vehicles and the high energy density of hydrogen ensures that the operational costs in rupees per kilometre for fuel cell trucks and buses are lower than diesel-powered vehicles, and this can bring a freight revolution in India. Moreover, fuel cell vehicles also have zero greenhouse gas emissions. ”

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