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BC Finalizes Hydrogen Supply Agreement for Buses; OKs Low-Speed Electric Vehicles

December 11, 2007

BC Transit has finalized a six-year, C$20-million (US$19.9 million) contract with Air Liquide Canada Inc. of Montreal to supply hydrogen for the Province’s 20 new fuel cell buses to arrive beginning next summer. When the buses are operational, BC Transit will have the largest hydrogen fuel cell bus fleet worldwide, according to BC Transportation Minister Kevin Falcon.

Air Liquide, together with Canadian companies Sacre-Davey Group, Hydrogen Technology and Energy Corporation and Hydrogenics Corporation, will design, supply, operate and maintain two hydrogen fuelling stations. The first fuelling station will be located in Victoria at BC Transit’s Langford Transit Centre, to be completed by mid-2008. The other station will be located in Whistler at a new BC Transit facility that is currently being planned. The fuelling station is scheduled for completion by mid-2009.

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