This has been announced by the Municipal Transport Company of Madrid.
The first 10 EMT hydrogen buses with a Toyota battery will arrive in 2024. This has been announced by the Madrid Municipal Transport Company, which has awarded CaetanoBus the contract for which these 10 units will be delivered. We are talking about the first major tender for this type of zero-emission bus in the capital of our country, a project that will be completed next year.
And the chosen one is the H2.City Gold model, a bus equipped with the second generation of Toyota’s fuel cell group. The Madrid EMT fleet does not currently have any buses of this nature, so they will be the first. Transportes Metropolitanos de Barcelona (TMB), Alsa and Avanza do have these hydrogen buses, and soon the Municipal Transport Company (EMT) of Tarragona and the Technological Institute of the Canary Islands (ITC) will also receive it.
“Spain is a key market for CaetanoBus, and we are very happy to become market leaders with the supply of 10 more units of our H2.City Gold to another important public transport operator such as EMT Madrid”, said Nuno Lago de Carvalho, Commercial Director of CaetanoBus. “Hydrogen-based mobility is key to decarbonizing large bus fleets, and crucial to combating climate change in a sustainable way.”
These buses have a nominal power of 70 kW. This is Toyota’s new hydrogen fuel cell system, a new generation that has managed to be more compact and lighter. And this technology is assembled in Europe, at Toyota Motor Europe’s (TME) research and development center in Zaventem, Brussels. This generation ensures a lower consumption of hydrogen and greater comfort, according to CaetanoBus.
