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Detailed explanation-1: -Union Minister of State, Dr Jitendra Singh on Sunday (August 21) launched India’s first indigenously developed Hydrogen fuel cell bus developed by KPIT-CSIR in Pune.

Detailed explanation-2: -Union Minister Dr Jitendra Singh unveils India’s first truly indigenously developed Hydrogen Fuel Cell Bus developed by KPIT-CSIR in Pune; Says, the launch is in tune with PM Modi’s National Green Hydrogen Mission.

Detailed explanation-3: -Union Minister Dr. Jitendra Singh on Sunday unveiled India’s first indigenous Hydrogen fuel cell bus in Pune. The Hydrogen fuel cell bus is developed by the CSIR-Council of Scientific and Industrial Research and KPIT Limited. Powered by fuel cells, it utilises Hydrogen and Air to generate electricity.

Detailed explanation-4: -Union Minister Jitendra Singh on Sunday launched “India’s first indigenously developed hydrogen fuel cell bus". The bus, developed by the Council of Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR) and private firm KPIT Limited, was showcased in Pune earlier today.

Detailed explanation-5: -It was a Welsh physicist, William Grove, who in 1842 invented the first simple hydrogen fuel cell. Grove recombined hydrogen with oxygen – the reverse of the process of electrolysis – to produce electricity with only pure water as a by-product.