CUTE Clean Urban Transport for

Sweden is a participant in the EU demonstration project CUTE (Clean Urban Transport for Europe) where 3 Fuel cell buses are run in each of 9 European cities. The hydrogen, which provides fuel for the FC buses, is produced locally by electrolysis. Sweden has recently joined the Hydrogen and Fuel Cell Technology Platform organised by EU. 

CUTE (Clean Urban Transport for Europe) EEC Sixth Framework Programme. 

CUTE (2006) CUTE - Clean Urban Transport for Europe Detailed Summary of Achievements, http //ec Topa.eu/erurgf/res/fp6 projects/ doc/h/drogpi/deliverahles/sumtttary.pdf (last accessed 22 March 2011). 

The first demonstration-type buses having a fuel cell power plant were introduced toward the end of the twentieth century. In London, such buses started operating in suburban commuter transit soon after 2000. During the years from 2001 to 2006, a program of the European Commission called Clean Urban Transport for Europe (CUTE) was run involving regular use of 27 fuel ceU-powered buses in nine European cities. The success achieved by this initiative led to introduction of this type of bus transport in other cities of Europe, Asia, and North and South America (Crawley and Adamson, 2006). 

With regard to fuel cell brrses, a real-scale experiment was carried out between 2003 and 2006, thanks to support from the Etrropean Union, by the Clean Urban Transport (CUTE) project Thirty Mercedes buses, equipped with Ballard fuel eells, were deployed in 10 Etrropean cities on commercial routes. These buses were all FC buses, with no hybridization and therefore no energy recovery when braking. This choice was debatable for an application on tttban routes, but it is explicable by the fact that the objective was more to demonstrate the viability of the concept in a real eontext than to optimize the buses. 

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