The three buses, launched today by the National Transport Authority and Bus Éireann, are probably the most expensive buses that will ever go into public service in Ireland.
Built by Wrightbus near Ballymena in Northern Ireland, the buses cost €800,000 each and will operate on Bus Éireann services between Dublin and Ratoath, Co Meath.
It cost the NTA €2.4 million to buy the three vehicles. There are only 4,200 hydrogen buses world-wide and very few are double-deckers like these. These buses will initially be supplied with highly pressurised green hydrogen produced by BOC Gases Ireland in its electrolyser at Bluebell on the Naas Road in Dublin.
It is working to introduce the necessary skills and infrastructure at its 17 depots to move from an entirely diesel-fuelled internal combustion engine fleet of 1,170 vehicles to one with a mix of zero and low emission buses. That is the equivalent to the emissions savings that would be made by taking 42 cars off the road for a year.
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