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SHIJIAZHUANG: Nearly a year after the city of Zhangjiakou in north China's Hebei Province co-hosted the Beijing 2022 Winter Olympic Games, 444 hydrogen-powered buses have become the preferred mode of public transport for locals. These buses were first used for the Olympics.
Across China: Hydrogen-powered buses now on roads of Beijing Winter Olympics co-host city-
This year's Games were the first at which all venues were powered by 100 percent green electricity.
According to official estimates, from June 2019 to the end of the Paralympics next month, Games venues will consume about 400 million kilowatt-hours of green electricity.
The electricity that illuminates the Winter Olympic venues day and night, and makes the Beijing Winter Olympics the greenest Games, along with the hydrogen that powers the 1,200 vehicles shuttling among the Olympic village and different stadiums and stages - the largest use of hydrogen-powered vehicles in Olympic history, both come from Zhangjiakou, a city in North China's Hebei Province that is 180 kilometers from Beijing and also the co-host city for the Games.