Once constructed, the station will have the capacity to support up to 50 hydrogen fuel-cell electric buses.
The battery-electric Xcelsior CHARGE H2 buses, built by New Flyer, use compressed hydrogen as an energy source.
VIA’s full fleet conversion will be complete in 2025. More than one-half of VIA’s diesel revenue vehicles have been replaced with CNG buses to date.
The station, built as a partnership between the two entities, is used to fuel City of Columbus vehicles. It is also open to the public and companies with CNG fleets.
Will service the first hydrogen fuel cell bus in operation as part of the Ohio State University campus fleet.
The company will also complete a series of upgrades to the existing facility.
Ten CNG pumps will be added to VIA’s current private fueling facility on North Flores Street. The VIA board of trustees recently voted to replace the agency’s fleet with CNG-fueled vehicles.
After a two-year pilot program testing five propane autogas paratransit buses, the transit agency purchased 50 more this year, and will purchase an additional 75 by 2018.
Campus Area Bus will fuel a portion of its fleet at the $3 million CNG station with long-term plans to transition all CABS buses and other fleet vehicles to alternative fuel models.
Also signed other agreements across the transit markets, including the construction of new stations and extended maintenance and fueling contracts.
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