The first Greek bus running on hydrogen was tested on regular schedules on Wednesday by OSY SA, which runs the buses and trolleys for the Transport for Athens (OASA Group).
The bus has been operating in the center of Athens for around a month on the cyclical route of Ano Patissia to Zappio, tranporting hundreds of passengers daily for free.
“The future in transportation is in hydrogen, and it is possible that the future of road transport is based on the vehicle we tested,” OSY CEO Stefanos Agiasoglou said. “We started the test drive of hydrogen-powered buses to assess their operation under real conditions, and to determine the way to prepare our facilities for the demands of hydrogen-powered vehicles,” he added.
OSY is participating in the first European pilot programs for the use of hydrogen in transport, and will soon acquire three such vehicles, funded by the European Union.
Solaris general manager Theodoros Chatzipanagiotou noted that the company has been applying hydrogen-powered technology since 2015, and it has a zero carbon footprint.
Source: Ekathimerini.com
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