DIJON: A green fleet of 62 buses and 22 dumpsters converted to green hydrogen
At this stage of development of Hydrogen solutions applied to “heavy” mobility (VI, Buses and Cars) a mode of development already observed for NGV, which has passed through the commissioning of Dumpsters for Household Waste (BOM) and buses.
.The first framework for experimenting with the future of hydrogen for vehicles that can go through public authorities, in particular due to the use of a budget envelope, not constrained by the questions of the business model which is imposed on private users .
In this context, the projects announced by several agglomerations can illustrate our point of view. Indeed, in France, household refuse collection vehicles are most often managed by inter-municipal cooperation structures, some of which have already engaged in “greening” operations for their fleets, the framework applying to passenger transport also being able to allow a framework of mutualisation. An emblematic example, the city of Dijon, which aims to convert its fleet of garbage dumpsters to renewable hydrogen, allowing at the same time to use the energy production and distribution infrastructures for the bus fleet.
THE CITY OF DIJON PROJECT
The objective of the Dijon metropolis is indeed to achieve total decarbonization of its public transport by 2026, via a “green” fleet of 62 buses and 22 garbage trucks converted to green hydrogen. By 2030, the entire fleet could be entirely supplied with hydrogen, i.e. 180 urban buses (the largest French fleet), the search for optimization of the project combining the commissioning of BOMs and a fleet of bus.