Mumbai: Tata Motors has pocketed a tender 15 Proton fuel fuel fuel-based fuel bus (PEM) from Indian Oil Corporation Limited (IOCL).
IOCL has invited an offer to supply fuel buses on December 2020, and Tata Motors was chosen in the diligent evaluation process.
All 15 buses will be sent within 144 weeks from the date of signing of a memorandum of understanding (MoU).
In addition to supplying buses to the IOCL Research & Development Center, Tata Motors will also collaborate to carry out R & D projects and collectively study the potential of fuel cell technology for commercial vehicles.
This will be done together testing, maintaining and operating this bus for public transportation in real-world conditions in Delhi-NCR.
The bus will be filled with fuel by hydrogen, produced and shared by IOCL.
BC Vaidya, Chair, Indian oil, stated that this was the first of its type of project in this country brought the largest fuel supplier in the country and the largest commercial vehicle manufacturer on board to take the next cellular & fuel technology.
This initiative will also act as a springboard for various other major programs from Indian oil, which proposes to introduce hydrogen-based mobility on various iconic routes and important sectors in the country.
These futuristic steps are in the right direction to make hydrogen as a pamungkas zero-zero fuel, he added.
Commenting on New Business Orders, Girish Wagh, President, Commercial Vehicle Business Unit, said Tata Motors, “We love to win this prestigious tender from IOCL because it adds to Rich inheritance Tata Motors to introduce ready-made technology for cleaners and more green.
Public transportation.
We have succeeded supply 215 bus buses under Fame I and win orders for 600 bus buses under Fame II.
“This command to supply the fuel cell bus from the company as respected as an Indian oil company, then encourages our sustainable efforts to develop sustainable fuel Alternatives focusing on India to change the future of mobility in India, “he added.
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SSV Ramakumar, Director (R & D), Indian oil while congratulating Tata Motors Ltd., said that many hard work had been included by the R & D team Indian oil towards pregnancy, plans and implemented this shared development cum demonstration program with Strong support from the Ministry of Petroleum & Gas.
Indian oil through CUTTING EDGE R & D, committed to strengthening the production chain and supply of hydrogen energy in India and will prepare a hydrogen production pilot factory ~ 1 ton per day based on 4 innovative lines besides collaborating with fuel cell research, he added.