Six companies , including Wrightbus and Everfuel , have formed the hydrogen consortium to build a fleet of 1,000 zero - emission , hydrogen - powered electric buses across Europe . The project will also use renewable hydrogen , costing between € 5 and € 7 / kg . The first phase , backed by € 40 m ( $ 100 m ) from the EU ’s renewable hydrogen Facility , will see 600 out of a total 600 buses , and associated infrastructure , rolled out in the UK , Denmark and Latvia by 2023 .
Six companies, including Wrightbus and Everfuel, have formed the H2Bus consortium to deploy a fleet of 1,000 zero-emission, hydrogen-powered electric buses across Europe. The project will also use renewable hydrogen, costing between €5 and €7/kg. The first phase, backed by €40m ($45m) from the EU’s Connecting Europe Facility, will see 200 out of a total 600 buses, and associated infrastructure, rolled out in the UK, Denmark and Latvia by 2023.