This Clean Technica article notes, “Arthur Bus’s collapse in Poland marks the end of a story that had been quietly unraveling for some time. A hydrogen bus startup backed by public funding, municipal orders, and a planned manufacturing footprint failed before delivering a single customer vehicle.
Twenty buses ordered by the city of Lublin were left undelivered, subsidies were put at risk, and local authorities were forced back to the drawing board.
This was not a surprise caused by mismanagement alone. It was the visible failure of a broader European experiment that tried to industrialize hydrogen buses in parallel with battery electric buses, splitting capital, attention, and learning curves in a market that never had the scale to support both.”
Source: Clean Technica Read The Article
PSR Analysis: Given Poland’s dominant position within electric powered buses, If hydrogen buses struggle to make economic and operational sense here, it is difficult to argue that they will succeed elsewhere in Europe. PSR
Guy Youngs is Forecast & Adoption Lead at Power Systems Research
