CHINA
The Beijing Public Transport Corporation is using a fleet of 212 hydrogen buses to support the 2022 Winter Olympics and Paralympics in the city as part of a broader overall effort made by organisers in an attempt to keep the Games carbon neutral.
In total, there were around 11,000 new energy vehicles deployed in connection with the Games, which were equipped with real-time monitoring systems to permit data collection. The real-time monitoring shares that data with controllers, including monitoring of the hydrogen fuel cell buses’ systems, within seconds. After the 2022 Winter Olympics are over, the 212 hydrogen-fuelled buses will form part of the operator’s regular fleet.
The city of Zhangjiakou, which is co-hosting the events, already has 444 fuel cell buses in operation, covering nine of the its routes and which have already carried 62 million passengers over 21 million kilometres. Zhangjiakou is home to two hydrogen production facilities and eight refuelling stations.
Based on the vehicles in Zhangjiakou, the buses are reported to reduce carbon dioxide emissions from exhaust by 11.8 tones per 10,000 kilometres driven and are capable of operation in temperatures as low as -20ºC.
