Dubai’s Roads and Transport Authority (RTA) has signed an agreement with Swaidan Trading Company to trial a hydrogen bus operating in the desert city’s challenging environment.
The agreement was signed by Ahmed Hashem Bahrozyan, CEO of RTA’s Public Transport Agency, and Swaidan Al Naboodah, Managing Director of the Company. The initiative is part of RTA’s efforts to provide ‘sustainable, eco-friendly public transportation’.
Bahrozyan said, “We are pleased to sign this agreement to trial and experiment with the first hydrogen bus in the Emirate of Dubai in cooperation with one of the leading national companies in the field of supplying buses according to international specifications and standards.”
The hydrogen bus, equipped with a fuel cell system from the Chinese company Zhongtong Bus Holding Co, will be tested on the city’s streets.
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