Metrobus cancellations after hydrogen bus fire in Crawley [View all]

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This sort of thing is increasingly common when these expensive things for the purpose of greenwashing and marketing fossil fuels are purchased and put into service for a year or two until reality strikes.

Metrobus cancellations after hydrogen bus fire in Crawley

Bus passengers have said they have been left facing widespread cancellations and long waits, following a recent bus fire.

Metrobus passengers have reported multiple cancelled buses and having to wait for up to an hour, after a fleet of 42 hydrogen-powered buses were removed from service when one caught fire on December 2, 2025.

Passengers have taken to social media to criticise the delays.

Theresa Spence said: "I had to wait for nearly an hour, in minus six degree temperatures, for a number 20. Other people at the bus stop were waiting over an hour for a number 10.

"When a bus did come through, it was full."

Lauren Keen added: "It’s beyond a joke when people are late for work or kids are late for school.

"Sometimes the bus is too packed so people are rejected to get on..."

The article describes these disasters as "zero emission," which is bullshit, because in Great Britain as is the case everywhere, hydrogen is overwhelmingly made by the steam reformation of dangerous fossil fuels, usually methane but sometimes coal, especially in China.

We cannot expect journalists to know science; my regular joke is that one cannot get a degree in journalism if one has passed a college level science course with a grade of C or better.

The scientific illiteracy of journalists, along with the bait and switch advertising of fossil fuel companies (here and elsewhere) of hydrogen as "green" is responsible for the popularity in the general public of these expensive and dangerous devices, most of which are written off as a loss as reality sets in.