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Old March 12th 12, 10:43 AM posted to uk.transport.buses,uk.transport.london
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Default Full hybrid buses
On 12/03/2012 10:23, d wrote:
On Mon, 12 Mar 2012 09:55:50 +0000
Graeme wrote:
On a related note , what happened to those hydrogen buses that were plying
their trade around central london about 8 years back and that Mayor Ken made
such a big deal about at the time? Were they sold, scrapped, or just left in
a
depot to rot?


Presumably they could have been converted back to conventional fuel. We

Doubt it, AFAIR they used a fuel cell, not just a piston engine running on
hydrogen.

http://www.tfl.gov.uk/corporate/6585.aspx may answer your question.

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