NHA Members Selected for Bus Program Awards

Eleven member companies of the National Hydrogen Association are on teams receiving portions of $43.5 million from the Federal Transit Authority (FTA) to make 10% of all U.S. bus purchases hydrogen fuel cell buses by 2015. Members include Ballard Power Systems, Daimler-Chrysler, GE Research, Hydrogenics, ISE Corp., New York Power Authority (NYPA), Nuvera Fuel Cells, Shell Hydrogen, South Carolina Research Authority (SCRA), University of South Carolina (USC), and UTC Power. Weststart/CALSTART, an NHA affiliate, was also selected to receive a share of the funding.

Ballard, ISE Corp., Shell Hydrogen, and UTC Power have teamed with the Washington Metro Area Transit Authority, which was granted $8.4 million for advanced bus development and in-service evaluation of hybrid fuel cell buses. USC and SCRA have a $5.67 million project that will bring the first fuel cell bus to South Carolina in time for the NHA's 2009 Annual Hydrogen Conference in Columbia. Other projects include GE and NYPA's lightweight fuel cell hybrid bus; a fuel cell bus fleet in Massachusetts with Nuvera Fuel Cells; DaimlerChrysler and Hydrogenics' compound fuel cell hybrid bus in San Francisco; and an ISE Corp./UTC Power collaboration which will design and demonstrate a 40-foot fuel cell bus for use in hot desert climates.