image of bus: AC TRANSIT
I rode on a hybrid electric-hydrogen fuel cell bus last Friday. It was big, boxy and eerily quiet.
I met the bus right outside my apartment.
I met the bus right outside my apartment.
The bus is on loan to Golden Gate Transit from AC Transit, and costs $2.4 million.
According to AC Transit, I am now one of the "first 0.001 percent of people in the world to take a ride on a zero-emission fuel cell bus."
AC Transit, which is a transit agency in the SF East Bay, has three fare-collecting buses in service. They are the premier demonstrators of the efficacy of this technology for public transit.
