China's leading electric vehicle maker1 BYD announced Wednesday to team with US Hybrid2 Corporation to develop a hydrogen fuel cells battery-electric bus.
中电动汽车生产商比亚迪周三宣布与美国混合动力公司合作研发一款使用氢燃料电池的电动客车。
According to a press release of BYD (Build Your Dreams), this bus, the first kind of electric bus using fuel cells technology, will serve Honolulu's Daniel K. Inouye International Airport in Hawaii, one of the busiest airports in the United States with more than 21 million passengers per year.
Hydrogen fuel cells, which creates electricity by splitting hydrogen electrons from the protons, is believed by experts better for trucking than the battery cells used in most electric cars like Tesla because the system is much
lighter3.
The new bus is being developed as part of Hawaii's Clean Energy Initiative (HCEI) to meet sustainable energy objectives of decreasing dependency on imported oil and reducing greenhouse gas
emissions4.
The initiative is a central
component6 of the Hawaii state's goal to be powered 100 percent by renewable energy by 2045.
"We are ecstatic to partner with US Hybrid. Together, we can bring
innovative7 ideas to the state of Hawaii and deliver clean, renewable transportation solutions," Macy Neshati, Senior
Vice8 President of BYD Heavy Industries said in the statement.
US Hybrid
founder9 Abas Goodarzi was quoted as saying that in light of the state aggressively pursuing clean power, his company is glad to showcase "the most efficient zero
emission5 technology in the industry."