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Balllard to Provide Fuel Cells for Up To 20 Buses for 2010 Whistler Winter Olympics

VANCOUVER, AUGUST 5 - Ballard Power Systems will be supplying its brawny fuel cell engines to power up to 20 fuel cell buses for the 2010 Olympic and Paralympic Winter Games in the resort of Whistler, British Columbia, the company announced just before the weekend.

Ballard said it was selected by the operator of the buses, BC Transit, in a contract that may be worth up to US $14.7 million. BC Transit will buy the buses with financial assistance from the governments of British Columbia and the Canadian federal government.

The first bus equipped with Ballard’s heavy-duty next-generation fuel cell module is to be delivered for evaluation in 2008, with 19 more to follow in 2009. All will be integrated into BC Transit’s fleet after the games.

Ballard is part of a consortium working on the fleet, which as far as can be determined now, may be the biggest in the world at that time, according to Canadian media reports. Partners include ISE Corp., of Poway, CA as supplier fo electric drive train and battery technology, and New Flyers Industries Canada, ULC, Winnipeg, Manitoba, as supplier of the bus itself.

(A fuller version of this report will appear in the September 2007 issue of H&FCL)

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