Ad Astra Rocket announced today through social media the arrival of the hydrogen-fueled bus to the Port of Limón.

“Attention Costa Rica: #Nyuti has arrived in Costa Rica. The first fuel cell hydrogen electric bus in Central America is located in Puerto Limón. #Nyuti comes from the indigenous Chorotega language of Guanacaste and it means ‘Star”. The stars are composed mainly of hydrogen.

We’re making history in the usage of zero carbon technologies for transportation. This is a collaborative effort thanks to the visionary teams Air Liquide Cummins Inc Sistema de Banca para el Desarrollo Relaxury Premiere Service US Hybrid Corporation.” Reads the Facebook post.

Former NASA astronaut, mechanical engineer and physicist Franklin Chang, current director of Ad Astra Rocket Company, had commented on the importance of this achievement as it opens the door to clean energy transportation systems in the country.

Other industrialized countries have this technology at a more advanced level, it is used in Japan and some European countries, as well as in California, USA. What separates Costa Rica from the rest is that the hydrogen is obtained from the separation of water molecules, thus, there are no contaminating emissions; while in other countries it is obtained from methane gas and in this case the process produces small amounts of contamination.

This is the first clean energy bus in Central America.