hydrogen-powered fuel cell trucks

Could the flux capacitor solve hydrogen storage on Class 8 trucks?

The garbage-gulping Mr. Fusion from “Back to the Future” was pure fiction, but the flux capacitor that powered Doc Brown’s flying DeLorean is real. NASA made it. The space agency licenses it. And hydrogen-powered trucks might benefit from it.

A license like no other

“I actually have a license for the flux capacitor. How many people can say that?” Michael Kramer, founder of startup Novadev, told me. “The only one who’s made a lot of money on this program so far is my patent attorney. He got paid a...

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Nikola stats show H2-powered trucking is for real

Nikola has delivered 75 hydrogen-powered fuel cell trucks to customers. It has an order bank that should begin to produce meaningful revenue. Now it is producing statistical evidence that hydrogen-powered trucking is not just for show.

At two industry conferences this week and in data shared first with Truck Tech, Nikola revealed it has:

  • Completed 1,666 hydrogen fill-ups at three mobile refuelers in Coolidge, Arizona, as well as Ontario and Long Beach, California.
  • Dispensed 60.54 tons of...

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Nikola gets real on hydrogen with 60 stations planned by 2026

Nikola hydrogen pump

Hyperbole about hydrogen pricing helped convict Nikola Corp. founder Trevor Milton of fraud in federal court. On Thursday, the electric truck maker laid out plans for 60 hydrogen stations by 2026, enabled by a raft of federal and state incentives.

That’s a far cry from the 700 stations at $17 million a station that Nikola outlined in its pitch deck in 2020. It’s unclear how much Nikola will pay per kilogram of production. But it probably will be substantially more than Milton’s claim of sub-$4 a...

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ACT Expo notebook: Peterbilt’s math lesson and Volvo’s big day

A reporter’s notebook from the Advanced Clean Transportation Expo in Long Beach, California

Like coins dropped into a jar at the end of the day, the number of heavy-duty electric trucks continues to grow by nickels, dimes and quarters. But measuring success requires more than counting up pocket change.

Peterbilt Motors General Manager Jason Skoog gave a math lesson about battery-electric and hydrogen-powered fuel cell electric trucks during a keynote address Tuesday. 

“Today’s diesel trucks are...

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Bosch will supply key components to Daimler-Volvo fuel cell joint venture

German automotive supplier Robert Bosch will make and sell air compressors to Cellentric, the fuel cell joint venture of Germany’s Daimler Truck AG and Sweden’s Volvo Group AB.

Trucks and stationary fuel cells for data centers and other high-power installations are several years away. But Cellentric is beginning to contract for the major components it will need for mid-decade production. Air compressors govern the fuel-cell system’s oxygen supply.

Hydrogen-powered fuel cell commercial trucks are...

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No partners, no problem: Nikola may do hydrogen stations solo

Now that it can buy cheap electricity to make hydrogen in Arizona, Nikola Corp. (NASDAQ: NKLA) no longer needs fueling station partners who balked after the startup’s months of distractions and ongoing federal probes into fraudulent claims.

“Things are changing,” Nikola CEO Mark Russell told FreightWaves in a recent interview. “We were working with various potential station partners for some time last year. And that’s why we thought there was a good chance that we would have one of those...

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Is heavy-duty fuel cell trucking almost ready for prime time?

Here’s what we know about hydrogen-powered fuel cells for heavy-duty trucking:

  • They are not in commercial production.
  • Onboard hydrogen storage is far less efficient than battery-powered trucks.
  • Heavy-duty truck fuel cell adoption is projected to be just 2.5% by 2030.
  • Battery-electric truck proponents call fuel cells unflattering names.

.None of that has changed. Yet, something seems different. 

For starters, car and truck makers and Tier 1 suppliers are investing billions of dollars in fuel cell...

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Plug Power extends into e-commerce space with Walmart

Plug power expands into e-commerce with Walmart.

Plug Power (NASDAQ: PLUG) has announced that its hydrogen and fuel cell solutions are expanding into Walmart e-commerce applications. 

The expansion began in August 2020 and will continue into 2021, according to a release. The Tuesday announcement said that across North America, Walmart has 37 distribution centers that use over 9,500 Plug Power-supported GenDrive fuel cell-powered vehicles.

With about 40,000 units in the field and over 100 fueling stations in North America, Plug Power provides...

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Nikola, Hyliion defend divergent paths to zero-emission trucking

Hybrid electric powertrain maker Hyliion Inc. is working on a hydrogen fuel cell version of its Class 8 ERX Hypertruck. But don’t be confused. The long-term plan still calls for a renewable natural gas-powered generator to make electricity onboard, according to CEO Thomas Healy.

Using any fossil fuel, renewable or not, is a pathway to failure, said Trevor Milton, founder and executive chairman of startup Nikola Corp. (NASDAQ: NKLA) Nikola plans to build and sell grid-powered battery-electric...

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