Hydrogen Fuel ICE Bus developed by TCU
2009 Volume 34 Issue 2 Pages 41-46
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2009 Volume 34 Issue 2 Pages 41-46
An urgent social need of the reduction of the most important greenhouse gas or carbon dioxide in the Earth’s atmosphere pushed us to make a vigorous effort to realize practical and wide use of vehicles with internal combustion engines fueled by hydrogen in general. Then, the development of a mini-bus with an internal combustion engine fueled by hydrogen was started at Tokyo City University formerly Musashi Institute of Technology. Because buses are public transport and many people can enjoy the transportation at a time. It was thought that the mini-bus would help us to let the public feel the effectiveness of the bus fueled by hydrogen for the reduction in the greenhouse gas.
Because of the urgent social need, it was decided at the start that the mini-bus should be developed by using verified, not new technologies with great confidence and reliability. The development ended in great success, having had it run on public roads with a license number plate on. It was also found that the emission was almost so low as the zero-emission. The total driving distance was over 4400 km with no problem by May 19, 2009. It was also found that the mini-bus could run about 200 km per one charge of 10 kg hydrogen.
