California: SamTrans orders major hydrogen bus refuelling hub

San Mateo County Transit District (SamTrans) has awarded Fastech and Bosch Rexroth a contract to build a hydrogen refuelling station for up to 175 fuel cell buses in California. The facility will feature the first commercial deployment of Bosch Rexroth’s CryoPump technology and is expected to become the world’s largest bus-focused hydrogen station.

The project is designed to support a fleet of up to 175 fuel cell electric buses. The station will feature four dispensers capable of fuelling multiple vehicles simultaneously and will be able to deliver up to 3.5 tonnes of hydrogen per day. Bosch Rexroth states that its technology can dispense up to 1,200 kilograms of hydrogen per hour, providing capacity for future fleet expansion.

According to the partners, the facility is expected to become the largest hydrogen refuelling station dedicated to transit bus operations worldwide. The station will serve as the primary hydrogen hub for SamTrans, which operates 74 fixed bus routes and an on-demand transit service.

A key element of the project is the first commercial deployment of Bosch Rexroth’s CryoPump hydrogen refuelling technology. The company says the system eliminates the need for buffer gas storage and complex mechanical valve manifolds. It is also designed to significantly reduce hydrogen losses associated with boil-off and venting during hydrogen transfer and vehicle refuelling operations. Fastech will be responsible for integrating the refuelling infrastructure and delivering the overall station.

“This project demonstrates how hydrogen can be deployed at scale to support reliable, zero-emission public transportation,” said Dan McGill, President of Fadtech. “By combining Bosch Rexroth’s advanced hydrogen technologies with Fastech’s fueling infrastructure expertise, we are helping to establish a new benchmark for sustainable transit infrastructure worldwide.”

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ELLover

15.06.2026 um 08:19

More wasteful and expensive Fool Cell vehicles pushed by California, with fossil fuel corporations pushing them.I attended a California State Assembly committee meeting and heard more plans for H2 use in power plants, too, with 20% supposedly green H2 mixed with 80% methane to “green” the operations. The justifications presented in the committee hearing were highly questionable. Political leaders are still failing to understand that green H2 production is not even in existence today, H2 corrodes seals, H2 is able to get through tiny cracks which methane can not, and the production of H2 takes significantly more electricity to produce than the H2 creates afterwards. Fool Cells are a waste!