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ARB Provides $250K for New H2ICE Shuttle for San Mateo County
12 February 2008
The California Air Resources Board (ARB) has provided a $250,000 grant for the state’s Hydrogen Highway program to sponsor a hydrogen-fueled shuttle for operation between the Palo Alto Caltrain Station and East Palo Alto.
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| The hydrogen-fueled shuttle. Click to enlarge. |
The shuttle is a Ford E-450, powered by a supercharged 6.8-liter V-10 engine modified to run exclusively on hydrogen (H2ICE). (Earlier post.) As part of its test fleet, Ford will deliver by year’s end 30 such buses to customers across North America.
As we continue to wean ourselves off petroleum fuels, we will see more and more hydrogen powered shuttles like this on our roadways. This shuttle illustrates the great potential hydrogen has to power California’s vehicles and subsequently its economy.
—Mary Nichols, Chairman of the California Air Resources Board
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Posted by: sjc | February 13, 2008 at 08:27 AM
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This is great. Not a big thing, but the people that ride the shuttle will love it. A clean modern bus that does not pollute as much and does not use imported oil. This can have a real positive effect on public opinion about public policy if done right.