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Generation II of the Georgetown University Fuel Cell Bus Program began in 1993, when the Federal Transit Administration sponsored the development of 40-foot fuel cell powered buses to demonstrate commercial feasibility. This program was to draw on the experience and knowledge gained during the Generation I Program, which produced three 30-foot fuel cell powered transit buses.
In 1994, UTC Power (formerly known as International Fuel Cells), a division of United Technologies Corporation, was contracted by Georgetown to develop a 100 kW fuel cell for transit bus use. UTC Power has extensive experience with stationary fuel cell power plants; the fuel cell developed for the first Generation II bus, delivered in 1998, was a derivative of the successful PC25 (now PureCell 200) power plant. The fuel cell installed in the bus was a 100 kW phosphoric acid fuel cell, operating on liquid methanol. The fuel cell is the primary energy source, and traction batteries provide surge power and a means to recover braking energy by regeneration. For further technical details, please see the UTC Bus Technical Information page. UTC Fuel Cell Bus Configuration
For technical details, please visit the Technical Information page.
Or visit the photo gallery of the UTC Bus. Downloadable 2-page brochure for the UTC Bus: UTC Bus Brochure (1.7 MB) Adobe Acrobat Reader is required to view this file. |