Kenworth is now aiming to create new eco-friendly and energy efficient heavy-duty trucks without sacrificing their products’ power and performance. The Kenworth T680 hydrogen prototype runs on a powerful fuel cell together with lithium-ion batteries. With this combination, the T680 promises zero-emi...
heavy‐duty truckshydrogen fuel cellstransitiontransportationSummary Fuel cell and hydrogen energy technologies have been investigated by academia, industry, and government to reduce air pollution and mitigate global warming. The transition of heavy‐duty trucks (HDTs) from diesel to hydrogen fuel cells ...
Hyundai’s test of the 47 Xcient hydrogen fuel cell trucks started back in 2020, and thezero-emission vehicleshave been used for real world tasks in Switzerland since that time. “Xcient Fuel Cell is the world’s first heavy-duty fuel cell truck to achieve 5 million km (3.1 million miles...
Over in the U.S., California is aiming for half of all heavy-duty truck sales in the state to befully electricby 2035. Elsewhere, the European Commission, the EU's executive branch, is looking totoughen upCO2 emissions standards for heavy duty vehicles like trucks. It says this category ...
On Wednesday Toyotaannouncedits "Project Portal"hydrogen fuel cellsystem, designed for heavy-duty trucks at the Port of Los Angeles. For environment watchers looking at zero-emissions trucking, this is a rather big deal, in the form of a feasibility study, where project leaders will examine the...
guiding early-stage R&D. The study recently released by M2FCT uses Class 8 long-haul trucks as a case study to show how different design characteristics impact efficiency and durability, as well as how the advancements made for light-duty vehicles can be leveraged to meet heavy-dutyvehicle...
Amid the buzz surrounding Class 8 heavy-duty trucks, let’s remember that an electrified Class 8 solution is still in development. The two most common types of electric trucks being produced are all-battery electric and hydrogen-electric. Battery-powered electric truck examples include the Fuso eC...
and VDL Groep have launched their first hydrogen fuel cell demonstration truck, developed in a collaboration between the two businesses announced in May last year. Toyota aims to help decarbonise its European logistics operations by integrating its fuel cell technology into VDL’s heavy duty trucks...
With $50 million funded by HFTO over five years, the team has set a 2030 goal of demonstrating systems that have a 25,000-hour, or 1-million mile, lifetime for long-haul trucks.“Transitioning to hydrogen fuel cell heavy-duty vehicles would have a significant impact on reducing greenhouse...
Hyundai to deliver 1,600 fuel cell heavy-duty trucks to the JV through 2025, to be leased to member companies of H2 Mobility Switzerland Association and other enterprises JV to expand business to neighboring European countries; offer prospects for future partnerships in U.S. ...