Detroit Airport gets hydrogen-powered shuttles

by C. Commisso

March 20th, 2008

Ford Motor Company, along with congressman John Dingle, delivered two ultra-clean, hydrogen-powered buses to Detroit’s Metro Airport this week. According to Ford, the hydrogen combustion engines offers a CO2 emissions reduction of 99.7%. A grant from the U.S. Department of Energy helped fund the new vehicles.

Ford is the first automaker to deliver commercial vehicles with combustion engines fueled exclusively by hydrogen. The hydrogen vehicles are already in use by the Greater Orlando Airport Authority, Orlando Convention Central District, SeaWorld Orlando, University of Missouri Raleigh, the city of Las Vegas, the San Mateo (CA) County Transportation Authority, and in Canadian provinces such as Prince Edward Island and the Canadian cities of Ottawa and Vancouver.

Well, it’s about time the place that invented the technology started using it. Hopefully we’ll be seeing more of these around town.