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Future transport fundraising boost for museum
An exhibition at Grampian Transport Museum, using the history of land transport to explore and explain the future beyond the fossil fuel burning internal combustion engine, has been given a major boost for 2021. Launched for the 2019 season, ‘Probing the Future’ was created as a new venture harnessing current knowledge and future development plans from industry leaders such as BP, BMW, Tesla and Mapix, to explain to visitors the latest technology being used in the development of electric and autonomous vehicles. Housed in a specially created ‘walk through’ area on the museum’s mezzanine floor and made fully accessible with a newly installed wheelchair lift, this opportunity to look into the future of land transport has proven extremely popular and was shown to change perceptions of visitors towards electricity being the fuel source of their own cars in the future. This ability to showcase future transport technology has taken a major step forward for the 2021 season with an exciting new exhibit gifted to the museum by Aberdeenshire Council. The North East has been at the forefront of trialling Hydrogen power in public transport through running a fleet of EU-funded prototype VanHool single deck buses in the City and Shire for the past five years. One of these mobile test bed vehicles, as run by Stagecoach, will now be displayed at the museum to enable visitors to see how the future of clean air public transport is being developed. Museum curator Mike Ward is very excited about the new exhibit: “The watchword of GTM is to always be ‘topical and relevant’ and the science behind the use of hydrogen for powering vehicles is fascinating and a story worth telling, especially as the global energy hub of the North East is playing a leading role in its development. The gas is passed through a ‘fuel cell’ to create electricity which is then used to drive one or more electric motors. The only exhaust emission is water and the vehicle is quiet and >>>
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