The City of Surrey is unveiling what it calls Canada’s only municipally run hydrogen fuelling station on Wednesday.
The city will use it to fuel up its new zero emission hydrogen fuel cell vehicles.
The station and the vehicles are part of Surrey’s new green energy fleet plan, which will see up to 21 alternate fuel vehicles added to the its fleet over the next nine months, including hydrogen, electric and compressed natural gas.
Last month, the city approved the new corporate emissions action plan to help it meet its target of reducing greenhouse gas emissions in the city by 20% by 2020.
A shortage of fueling infrastructure has been among the largest impediments to the introduction of more new vehicles powered by electricity and hydrogen.
BC Hydro spokeswoman Simi Heer likened advancing electric vehicle networks to the chicken-or-the-egg conundrum in a BIV interview this past summer.
“If the infrastructure’s here and auto manufacturers see that the infrastructure’s here, would they be more willing to push those cars in B.C.?” (See “Power shortage threatens to stall electric vehicle progress” – June 22-28; issue 1078).