Summary

A hydrogen bus fire in Crawley should not be turned into a simple hydrogen-cause story. That would be sloppy, and the investigation needs to run its course. But it is a useful hook for the real transit lesson: a small hydrogen fleet can create a large operational support problem, and that support problem gets harder to justify when the manufacturer’s commercial center of gravity is battery-electric buses. Crawley and Gatwick were supposed to be one of Britain’s stronger hydrogen bus showcases.

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