Hydrogen Fuel Cell Trucks

Under governmental pressure for zero emission 🌱, FuelCell is gaining a lot of attention, in particular for Heavy Duty 🚚

H2 is very trendy in this post-COVID period and there is no single week without buzzing announcement: Germany 🇩🇪 investing 9 billion € in green Hydrogen, Nikola entering Nasdaq (NKLA), Hyundai delivering Xcient to Switzerland 🇨🇭…

The competition for #Hydrogen-fuelled trucks involves traditional and historical Eurepean 🇪🇺 / American 🇺🇸 / Japanese 🇯🇵 / Korean 🇰🇷 OEMs (VOLVO partnership with Daimler, Toyota with Hino, Cummins..), 🇨🇳 manufacturers sometimes in partnership with Occidental OEMs (JMC with Ford..) and new players such as Nikola

If commercially available FCEV trucks 🚚 are today limited, there are a lot of on-going projects and I do not know any Automotive advanced Engineering department not at least exploring Fuel Cells

The graph below summarises all the FC trucks I am aware of and that are either available (Hyundai), under testing (Scania with ASKO in Norway 🇳🇴), under development or publicly announced (Nikola).

As a comparison, I have indicated the 2 announced pure-electric ⚡️ Tesla trucks