ISRO develops hydrogen fuel cells for buses

India’s space scientists have developed hydrogen fuel cells to power a bus using their knowledge of the homegrown cryogenic technology for rockets. The two-year effort has yielded positive results and the scientists are now preparing for the fuel cells to be fitted into a bus. According to V. Gnana Gandhi, the honorary adviser of the Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) and the technical team leader in this project, ISRO and Tata Motors entered into a memorandum of understanding in 2006 to design and develop a bus using hydrogen as a fuel through the fuel cell route. (November 18, 2008)