HYDROGEN BUS POWER
Inside the world’s first clean-energy double-decker bus: the Hydroliner
WORDS AILSA HARVEY
Due to global demand, we are running out of the fossil fuels that are used to power vehicles on the roads. Hydrogen, on the other hand, is accessible everywhere across the globe and has a high energy content per unit of weight. There is plenty of hydrogen on Earth to be used as vehicle you know? fuel, being the third most abundant element on its surface after oxygen and silicon – but it doesn’t exist naturally in its pure form. In order to produce the fuel, hydrogen needs to be extracted from compounds such as water and methane.
Did you know
The first doubledeckers emerged in 1847
The first hydrogen-powered car was invented in 1806, but after two centuries this technology now exists in much larger machines. Hydrogen as a fuel
presents a more sustainable, zero-emission alternative to fossil fuels. Its potential is being shown in public transport, too, in the form of the first hydrogen double-decker bus: the Hydroliner.