The money put aside for the vehicles will be spent elsewhere.
Plans for Glasgow City Council to buy 19 futuristic hydrogen powered trucks at a cost of £7 million have been scrapped.
The local authority also use 20 diesel and hydrogen dual-fuelled low emission gritting trucks in the roads department. The move is part of the transformation of the council's entire fleet to zero emission transportation with another 1,300 vehicles still left to go green. He said: "Two hydrogen RCV contracts were unfortunately cancelled by the supplier at the end of last year" due to "programming difficulties - partly "technical and cost."
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