Clean buses ready to roll in Shanghai

SHANGHAI: A fleet of hybrid, clean energy fuel-cell buses will be operating in this city by 2009, giving green technology a major role in public life.

A hydrogen refueling station for the buses has been built in the city's Anting area.

The development was announced yesterday at the launch of the second phase of a fuel-cell bus commercialization project jointly carried out by the United Nations Development Program (UNDP) and the Ministry of Science and Technology.