ISE Corporation Delivered the Northeast's First Hydrogen Fuel Cell Bus (CT)

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SAN DIEGO, CA--ISE Corporation, a leading integrator of hybrid-electric and integrated fuel-cell drive systems for buses, has delivered a 40-foot hybrid-electric fuel cell-powered transit bus to CTTRANSIT. CTTRANSIT is provider of public transit local and express bus services in the Greater Hartford, New Haven, and Stamford Connecticut metro areas, and will operate the bus in revenue service once it arrives in Hartford.

ISE, with other industry partners, have been working under a $2.9 million grant from the Federal Transit Administration to the Greater Hartford Transit District to develop the Northeast's first hydrogen fuel cell bus. The bus is built on a Van Hool A330 chassis, and the system is powered by UTC Power PureMotion™ 120 fuel cell power system.

Under the subcontract agreement, ISE supplied one variant of its fully modular ThunderVolt® hybrid-electric drive system to meet CTTRANSIT’s need. In addition to being highly energy efficient, ISE’s hybrid-electric drive system requires a smaller fuel cell to power the bus, thus lowering acquisition cost. This advanced hybrid system uses high voltage batteries to recuperate stopping energy that would normally be expended on the brake pads, reducing brake wear and maintenance.

ISE’s other industry partner in producing the bus is AC Transit of Oakland, Calif., which now has three fuel cell-powered buses in operation. Another ISE-integrated identical bus, demonstrating hot weather potential, is in full time service at Sunline Transit Agency in Palm Desert, Calif.

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