據6月30日Natural Gas World報道，印度最大的商用汽車制造商塔塔汽車公司(Tata Motors)從印度國家石油公司(IOCL)贏得了15輛質子交換膜燃料電池（氫燃料電池）巴士的招標。

　　這15輛巴士將在簽署諒解備忘錄之日起144周內交付。除了向IOCL的研究和發展中心提供公共汽車外，塔塔汽車公司還將與它們合作進行研發項目，共同研究燃料電池技術在商用車上的應用潛力。將在新德里的真實環境中進行測試、維護和運營，這些巴士的燃料將由IOCL供應和分配。

　　IOCL主席Shrikant Madhav Vaidya表示，該計劃還將成為公司其他各種關鍵項目的跳板，計劃在該國的不同路線和重要行業引入氫能。他表示:“這些未來的規劃朝著正確的方向發展，使氫成為最終的凈零燃料。”除了與塔塔汽車合作進行燃料電池研究外，該公司還將建立1噸/天的制氫試驗工廠。

　　2020年，IOCL推出了混氫天然氣(HCNG)工廠，并在試點階段運行著50輛HCNG客車。

　　王佳晶 摘譯自 Natural Gas World

　　原文如下：

　　TATA MOTORS TO BUILD 15 HYDROGEN BUSES FOR INDIAN OIL

　　Tata Motors, India’s largest commercial vehicle maker, has won a tender of 15 hydrogen-based proton exchange membrane fuel cell buses from state-owned Indian Oil Corporation (IOCL), it said on June 30.

　　All 15 buses will be delivered within 144 weeks from the date of signing of the memorandum of understanding. In addition to supplying the buses to the Research & Development Centre of IOCL, Tata Motors will also collaborate with them to undertake R&D projects and collectively study further the potential of fuel cell technology for commercial vehicles.

　　This will be done by jointly testing, maintaining and operating these buses for public transport in real-world conditions in the Delhi-National Capital Region. The buses will be refuelled by hydrogen, generated and dispensed by IOCL.

　　IOCL chairman Shrikant Madhav Vaidya said the initiative would also act as a stepping stone for various other key programmes of the company, which proposes to introduce hydrogen-based mobility on different routes and important sectors in the country. “These futuristic steps are in the right direction for making hydrogen as the ultimate net-zero fuel,” he said. The company would be setting up 1 metric ton/day hydrogen production pilot plants besides collaborating with Tata Motors for fuel cell research.

　　IOCL launched hydrogen-blended compressed natural gas (HCNG) plant in Delhi last year. It is running 50 HCNG buses in the pilot phase.