State-owned Oil India Ltd (OIL) on Saturday said it has completed a beta demonstration of the hydrogen-powered bus developed by Ohm Cleantech under the ‘Startup Nurturing, Enabling, and Handholding (SNEH)’ program of the company.
The 9-meter bus built on a 60kW PEM fuel cell engine will power the electric drive and provide for a minimum range of 450 km while emitting water in the exhaust, the company said in a statement. “The demonstration adds another feather to the green hydrogen hat of OIL as the company has already commissioned a 99.999 percent pure green hydrogen plant in Jorhat, Assam in April 2022,” it said.
On the occasion, SC Mishra, Chairman and Managing Director (CMD) of OIL, said this is a major step towards zero-emission mobility within OIL and also in northeast India. The green hydrogen required for the bus will come from OIL’s Green Hydrogen…