The 75-passenger hydrogen-powered bus running a morning shuttle service for COP24 delegates will be available to take conference guests for a short journey every day at noon to the most historic mining district of Katowice from the city center. 11 December will be the only day when the journey will not be available due to the Hydrogen Day for the media with a scheduled demonstration of refueling the vehicle with hydrogen. The City Smile Ursus Bus is the first such vehicle manufactured by a Polish company that combines the advantages of the diesel technology and the electric vehicle technology. It is equipped with a pair of fuel-cell modules that use hydrogen stored in roof tanks to fully charge its traction batteries. This state-of-the-art technology makes the vehicle very quiet and environmentally friendly, because the combustion of hydrogen generates almost entirely water vapor.

JSW SA is involved in the development of clean hydrogen technologies. The company has enormous potential in this area due to the prospect of using hydrogen separated from coke oven gas generated in JSW’s coking plants. Purified hydrogen may be put to use, among its other applications, in hydrogen cells for emission-free generation of electricity, environmentally friendly public transport and powering electrical devices.