Produced by Slovakia’s Mobility & Innovation, the eight-metre, 21-passenger H2Bus features a complete alternative fuel system designed and supplied by Luxfer Gas Cylinders.
The system contains four of the company’s G-Stor Pro cylinders alongside valves and regulators, provided in a ‘ready to assemble’ kit.
The system was developed by Luxfer Gas Cylinders’alternative fuel systems site in Nottingham, working alongside worldwide partners to deliver the project in nine months.
Requiring just 10.5 kilograms of hydrogen to achieve more than 400 kilometres of range, the H2Bus contains a hydrogen fuel cell system and electric motor. To maintain optimum fuel efficiency, the weight of all components was minimised, and it was designed to deliver the fastest re-fueling of any equivalent bus on the market.
The minibus will now journey across Slovakia, Italy, Austria, Hungary and the Czech Republic, proving the viability of the technology, with the goal of securing commercial orders.
Luxfer’s European business development manager, Jim Gregory, addressed the attendees at the Bratislava launch. He said: “This project was designed, built, tested and homologated in much less than one year, in collaboration with a dynamic team of engineers and suppliers from seven different European countries - all despite the huge limitations that COVID caused on travel and logistics.”