Jean-Patrick Masson heads to Glasgow to praise Dijon’s hydrogen bus model
Let’s go for the COP26 in Glasgow, Scotland! The great global climate mass to begin this Sunday, October 31, 2021 and last two weeks. Dozens of heads of state will try to come to an agreement in order to limit – if it is still possible – to 1.5 degrees global warming. Among the participants, Jean-Patrick Masson, vice-president of Dijon Métropole in charge of ecological transition. He will travel to Glasgow next Saturday and is due to stay there for a week. As a member of “Urban France”, an association of large French cities and metropolises, he will participate on Wednesday 10 November in a conference on the theme of “Sustainable mobility”.
Four first hydrogen vehicles on our streets in 2022
It is during this meeting that he must discuss the future hydrogen buses and dump trucks that the Metropolis is preparing to put into service on its territory. “Dijon can be an example since in reality in Europe there are very few hydrogen bus fleets and our project is one of the most ambitious projects”. This is why again explains the chosen one, “it’s important to talk about it to other countries, other cities”. By June 2022, four first garbage dumpsters will circulate in our streets while in 2023 will follow 27 hydrogen buses, assures Jean-Patrick Masson. They will be supplied by two stations, one in the North, the other in the South. “That of the North will operate thanks to the electricity produced within the incineration plant”.
– Olivier Estran
A virtuous circle as Jean-Patrick Masson explains again “since the household waste will be used to produce the electric energy and the hydrogen which feeds the dump trucks”. The station in the South will be dedicated to buses “which will be powered by photovoltaic electricity”. A program which should run until 2030 thanks to the renewal of vehicle fleets. And in 2030, it is all 180 buses and 42 garbage dumpsters in the city that should be switched to hydrogen and will therefore no longer emit greenhouse gases according to Jean-Patrick Masson.
– Olivier Estran
Find this report in the morning of France Bleu Bourgogne this Tuesday, November 2, 2021 (98.3 or 103.7) from 6 a.m. to 9 a.m.