Air Products and New Flyer Five City Tour in Washington State Demonstrate Benefits of Hydrogen Fuel Cell Bus Technology | Status

LEHIGH VALLEY, Pa., March 31, 2021 / PRNewswire / – Air Products (NYSE: APD) and New Flyer of America Inc. hosted a five-city tour in Washington during the week of March 22nd to demonstrate the benefits of fuel cell electric buses that run on hydrogen from Air Products.

As part of the demonstration, Sunline Transit Agency in A thousand palms, California provided a new Xcelsior CHARGE H2 ™ flyer from its fleet of hydrogen buses to demonstrate the benefits of hydrogen during transport. The tour started in Bremerton, Washington A local traffic authority observed the bus being refueled at an Air Products mobile gas station. As part of the demonstration, the transit team received training on refueling the bus and was then able to drive it on its regular route to learn firsthand how the vehicle behaves under real conditions. Air Products and New Flyer then made similar stops Renton, Olympia, Chehalis and Vancouver, Washington Demonstration of the advantages and benefits of hydrogen transit.

Washington is one of several states that have taken steps to encourage public transport providers to move from traditional gasoline or diesel-powered vehicles to low-emission or zero-emission fleets. The hydrogen fuel cell bus technology offers transit agencies a proven and efficient alternative for an emission-free fleet under a variety of operating conditions, not just for short distances.

“We’re proud to partner with New Flyer on this tour to demonstrate the real environmental benefits hydrogen is already delivering today,” he said Eric good, Vice President of Air Products – Hydrogen for Mobility Solutions. “Air Products has made significant investments to ensure customers have access to infrastructure and hydrogen supplies as the world moves towards a greener, more sustainable future.”

Air Products is the world’s leading provider of hydrogen and hydrogen mobility solutions with over 60 years of experience. The company’s technologies are used annually in over 1.5 million refueling operations in twenty countries and in over 250 projects. Last year Air Products celebrated the opening of the largest hydrogen filling station for transit buses in The United States. Located at the Orange County Transportation Authority at Santa Ana, California The station is equipped with Air Products hydrogen technology, design and equipment. It has a bus refueling capacity for up to 50 buses, which corresponds to a refueling of up to 1,500 kilograms (kg) of hydrogen in eight hours. The station can refuel transit buses with an average of 28 kg of hydrogen per bus in six to 10 minutes per bus and at the same time offers successive refueling of up to 30 buses as well as simultaneous refueling with several refueling lanes. Air Products offers a hydrogen refueling solution for every emission-free hydrogen vehicle.

About air products

Air Products (NYSE: APD) is a leading global industrial gases company that has been operating for 80 years. Focused on the power, environmental and emerging markets, the company provides critical industrial gas, related equipment and applications expertise to customers in dozens of industries including refining, chemicals, metals, electronics, manufacturing, and food and beverages. Air Products is also a world leader in supplying methods and equipment for processing liquefied natural gas. The company develops, designs, builds, owns and operates some of the world’s largest industrial gas projects, including: gasification projects that sustainably convert abundant natural resources into synthesis gas for the production of high quality electricity, fuels and chemicals; Carbon capture projects; and world-scale carbon-free hydrogen projects that support global transport and the energy transition.

The company achieved sales of $ 8.9 billion from operations in 50 countries and has a current market capitalization of over $ 60 billion. More than 19,000 passionate, talented, and dedicated employees from diverse backgrounds are driven by Air Products’ higher ambition to create innovative solutions that benefit the environment, improve sustainability, and meet the challenges faced by customers, communities and the world. For more information, visit airproducts.com or follow us on LinkedIn, Twitter, Facebook or Instagram.

NOTE: This press release may contain forward-looking statements under the safe harbor provisions of the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995. These forward-looking statements are based on management’s reasonable expectation and belief as of the date of this publication about important risk factors. Actual performance and financial results could differ materially from the projections and estimates contained in the forward-looking statements due to many factors that management does not expect, including the risk factors described in the Company’s Form 10-K for the past fiscal year September 30, 2020.

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