GREAT NEWS : PARIS GOES HYDROGEN ! VAN HOOL BUSES WITH AIR LIQUIDE So glad for the parisians,really hopeful news.
The Board of Directors of IDFM approves the purchase of 47 additional hydrogen buses.
As a reminder, our objective: - 100% clean vehicles by 2025 deployed in dense areas. - 100% clean vehicles by 2029 throughout Île-de-France.
Hydrogen buses arrive in Ile-de-France ,Viva la France ! 7:50 a.m., July 11, 2022
ByJulien Descalles Translatd from french : EXCLUSIVE. Nearly 50 buses that do not emit greenhouse gases will be ordered. They will be added to the seven vehicles already tested.
By the end of 2023, 47 additional hydrogen buses will be criss-crossing the roads of the Ile-de-France region. The acquisition procedure will begin on Tuesday, during the next board of directors of Île-de-France Mobilités (IDFM). An investment of 48 million euros to enrich a fleet which today has seven. These have been tested since 2019 in real operating conditions on two Yvelines lines, between Versailles and Jouy-en-Josas and between Satory and Viroflay.
At a time when the transport organizing authority is carrying out "the largest bus fleet renewal plan (10,500 vehicles), outside of China", with 100% clean vehicles by 2025 deployed in urban areas, and by 2029 throughout Île-de-France based on electricity and bioNGV, why invite a new technology, which is moreover in its infancy? “We need to test all possible alternatives in order to further strengthen our energy mix. And thus not to depend on a single source of supply”, specifies Stéphane Beaudet, vice-president of the Region in charge of transport and sustainable mobility. A desire further reinforced by the war in Ukraine and by the inflation which weighs on gas prices.
Mobility with zero emissions If the ecosystem is still embryonic – barely 43,000 vehicles are equipped with a fuel cell in the world, a few hundred in France, the promises, on the other hand, are numerous. “From an environmental point of view, the hydrogen bus first guarantees mobility with zero emissions, underlines Laurent Probst, CEO of IDFM. But it also has other advantages over electric. Brakes and tires produce fewer particles, since it carries a battery weighing only one ton. And then the autonomy is greater, more than 300 kilometers against 180. Hence a more favorable deployment in the outer suburbs or for long-distance lines. "Another advantage: a full tank in a quarter of an hour, the equivalent of going to the pump of a diesel bus.
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A dozen supply sites in 2024 Porte de Saint-Cloud (16th), the four guns of the HysetCo station will also provide "exemplary" hydrogen when it opens in July. "A ton will be produced there every day by water electrolysis; it will be the largest production and distribution station in Europe for low-carbon and storable energy”, assures Loïc Voisin, president of a company which has TotalEnergies, Air Liquide and Toyota as shareholders. Enough to insure up to 200 full of hydrogen in the form of compressed gas - count from 70 to 90 euros for 500kilometres for all types of customers: trucks, dumpsters, individuals... But also taxis from the Hype company, which HysetCo also owns. "A way of resolving the question of the chicken and the egg: the sector being embryonic, should we start by developing the infrastructures or rather the uses? »
“With a fleet of 200 hydrogen vehicles and the establishment of a network of stations, we play on both ends of the chain”, explains the manager. By 2024, a dozen sites, including soon Le Bourget airport, should thus network Île-de-France. In addition to the Porte de Saint-Cloud site, which required nearly 15 million euros of investment to transform a former open-air car park, three other stations – distribution only – are already in operation, at the Porte de Saint-Cloud. la Chapelle (18th) and at Orly and Roissy airports. Step by step, hydrogen is weaving its web in Greater Paris. https://twitter.com/IDFmobilites/status/...7Ctwcon%5Es1_&ref_url= |