The transport sector is contributing significantly to GHG emissions, and European truck manufacturers see hydrogen as a powerful and sustainable fuel for reaching zero emission.
In the H2Accelerate TRUCKS project, 150 emission-free hydrogen fuel cell-powered 41 - 44 tonne articulated heavy-duty (HD) trucks will be developed and deployed by Daimler Truck, Volvo Group and IVECO Group. The trucks will be monitored under a wide variety of operating conditions, including cold and hot climate and high altitudes. Shell, Everfuel and TotalEnergies will ensure hydrogen can be provided to the trucks through a continuously expanding network of HRS covering the major Trans-European Transport Network (TEN-T) corridors. The learnings from the project will help inform future phases of HD hydrogen fuel cell truck deployment, ensuring the sector can reach full industrialisation. The H2Accelerate TRUCKS consortium has been awarded EUR 30 million from the Clean Hydrogen Partnership to carry out this ambitious project and results will be disseminated to policy makers, truck operators and the wider industry.
The H2Accelerate TRUCKS consortium also includes the Technical Research Centre of Finland (VTT), the International Road Transport Union (IRU), the Romanian National Union of Road Transporters (UNTRR), the Federazione Italiana Autotrasportatori Professionali (FIAP), the Austrian Chamber of Commerce (WKÖ) associations, and ERM. SINTEF is coordinating the project, and will also be contributing to the data management plan and protocols, developing a “Best Practice Guide” for vehicle deployment with HRS and maintenance services, performing a techno-economic and business case assessment, and helping identify and explore policy and regulatory barriers to suggest future policy actions in Europe.
