Transport for London (UK) announced plans to cut carbon emissions by 40% and save £90,000 per year in energy costs thanks to a retrofitted green power plant.
Some of the hydrogen buses, intended to provide transportation during the 2010 Winter Olympics in Vancouver (BC), have been stalling out and software problems appear to be the cause.
Researchers at the Los Alamos National Laboratory and the University of Alabama announced a breakthrough in hydrogen storage that could pave the way for economical hydrogen-fueled vehicles.
Iceland’s ambitious plan to convert all ground transportation to hydrogen power by 2040 is at least 10 years behind schedule and may have to accommodate electric cars.
Susan Bregman is editor of The Transit Wire. She has been a consultant on transit policy and planning for fifteen years and before that worked for the Boston Transportation Department. In 2004 she founded Oak Square Resources, LLC, which focuses on transit research, policy, and communications.