Hyundai Xcient
Volvo’s fuel cell truck advances but battery-electric is biggest push
HALLERED, Sweden — The plume of white smoke from Volvo’s fuel cell truck matched the white clouds in the Scandinavian sky. Stand too close and you feel the descending mist of water vapor.
The hydrogen tanks sweat just droplets at first. Then comes the release of about a liter of water, approximately the amount the 100-kilowatt fuel cell produces per kilometer traveled.
On a spin around the track at Volvo’s high-security proving ground about an hour east of its Gothenburg headquarters in southern...
ACT Expo a coming of age for hydrogen-powered trucking
ANAHEIM, Calif. — Not long ago, hydrogen and fuel cell trucks were lightly regarded at the Advanced Clean Transportation Expo. This year, they are capturing once unimaginable attention.
A parade of significant hydrogen-related announcements began even before what has become a must-attend event that outgrew its Long Beach, California, venue. Toyota Motor North America (TMNA), which doesn’t make commercial trucks, confirmed production later this year of a heavy-duty fuel cell system at its...
https://www.freightwaves.com/news/act-expo-a-coming-of-age-for-hydrogen-powered-trucking
Hyundai’s Xcient positioned for instant US fuel cell truck leadership
Like a political candidate running unopposed, Hyundai Motor will passively assume U.S. leadership in hydrogen-powered fuel cell trucks next year when 35 Xcient models arrive in California.
Hyundai has competition in the zero-emission trucking space. But none is likely to match the South Korean automaker. It has worked on fuel cell technology since 1998. And it and fielded its first fuel cell vehicle, a 160-kilowatt bus, in 2005.
The Xcient essentially doubles the 90-kW fuel cell stack technology...
An inconvenient truth about electric trucks
A few days in Germany revealed an inconvenient truth about real-world applications of battery-electric and hydrogen-powered trucks. Inadequate infrastructure, a lack of drivers and traffic congestion will frustrate meaningful expansion for sometime to come.
Jolt of electric truck realityA visit to the aging DB Schenker freight distribution center outside Frankfurt, Germany, injected a jolt of reality about electric trucks. The near giddiness surrounding the reveal of battery-electric and...
https://www.freightwaves.com/news/truck-tech-deutschland-dispatches-edition
Truck Talk: Hydrogen rising edition
This week we explore evidence that may soon demand a verdict on hydrogen as a transportation fuel, plus highlights from companies doing what they can to get on the right side of the business viability that Lordstown Motors said may elude the electric pickup truck startup.
Time to get serious
Evidence is mounting that hydrogen as a transportation fuel is for real. From the Department of Energy to industry leaders in automotive, trucking and even oil, the picture is brightening for the future of...
https://www.freightwaves.com/news/truck-talk-hydrogen-rising-edition