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The ECObus has been touring the state to showcase the zero-emission mobile learning center and give the public experience of hydrogen fuel cell technology.
Ebus displayed its 22 foot (6.7 m) prototype fuel cell bus in Chattanooga en route to the University of Delaware, where it will undergo testing as a shuttle. The firm's second fuel cell bus will go to the University of Texas later this year.
Jim Frierson, executive director of the Chattanooga-based Advanced Transportation Technology Institute, would like to see the new technology demonstrated in the city. ATTI is already in a research partnership with the University of Tennessee at Chattanooga, which is open to looking at remaking its existing shuttle bus loop.
If the vehicle were run purely on batteries, it would go about 75 miles (120 km) before recharging is needed, Enzo Bauk, Ebus' director of engineering, told the Chattanooga Times Free Press. But the electricity-producing fuel cell extends the range to up to 250 miles (400 km), he added.
Complete with an audiovisual system and interactive workstations, ECOtality's ECObus is equipped to educate the community -from school children to civic decision-makers -about hydrogen's potential as an alternative to carbon fuel-burning vehicles. Compressed hydrogen fuel stored at APS Hydrogen Park will power the bus throughout the tour.
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