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Mon Jul 15, 2024, 03:55 AM Jul 2024

AP: World's first hydrogen-powered commercial ferry to run on San Francisco Bay, and it's free to ride [View all]

https://apnews.com/article/ferry-hydrogen-climate-change-greenhouse-gases-b2f9700910eddafc96105a39a2e0399e
World’s first hydrogen-powered commercial ferry to run on San Francisco Bay, and it’s free to ride

BY TERRY CHEA
Updated 11:21 PM EDT, July 12, 2024

SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — The world’s first hydrogen-powered commercial passenger ferry will start operating on San Francisco Bay as part of plans to phase out diesel-powered vessels and reduce planet-warming carbon emissions, California officials said Friday, demonstrating the ship.

The 70-foot (21-meter) catamaran called the MV Sea Change will transport up to 75 passengers along the waterfront between Pier 41 and the downtown San Francisco ferry terminal starting July 19, officials said. The service will be free for six months while it’s being run as part of a pilot program.

“The implications for this are huge because this isn’t its last stop,” said Jim Wunderman, chair of the San Francisco Bay Area Water Emergency Transportation Authority, which runs commuter ferries across the bay. “If we can operate this successfully, there are going to be more of these vessels in our fleet and in other folks’ fleets in the United States and we think in the world.”

Sea Change can travel about 300 nautical miles and operate for 16 hours before it needs to refuel. The fuel cells produce electricity by combining oxygen and hydrogen in an electrochemical reaction that emits water as a byproduct.

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