CTE’s experience deploying zero-emission trucks and buses around the country has proven that successful deployments require matching the appropriate technology to the application. Fuel cell and battery electric technologies are not mutually exclusive, as some political discussions may indicate. Different operational demands necessitate different technology solutions, each with benefits and tradeoffs for various operating conditions, duty cycles, and agency resources. This applicability factor is crucial within the transit bus industry and will become increasingly important as these technologies expand to other transportation sectors with particularly strenuous duty cycles.
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