[ausev] UT CEM Plug-In Hybrid Fuel Cell Bus

[Carey King]

I just checked this bus out today.

http://www.utexas.edu/opa/news/2007/11/electromechanics05.php  

All of the local news stations (as this was a Press Release day) enjoyed 
filming the water come from the tailpipe.  Note they get the hydrogen 
from an on-site natural gas reformer.

The general specs are:
19.3 kW fuel cell
60 kWh NiCd battery pack from SAFT (French) that is about 4K lbs and 
they don't discharge below 20% energy capacity
nominal voltage is 300 V (as low as 240 V when discharged and as high as 
380 when regenerating)
Driving range about 200 miles total
The engineer/technical guy there said it gets about 1 mile/kWh, and 
about 0.8 kWh/mile if they drive carefully