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Hydrogen vehicle crashes in tunnels ‘unlikely, but could cause fatal shockwaves if tanks rupture’: government-funded research
While H2 storage tanks are well-protected against most impacts, TU Graz warns that rear-end collisions with lorries could come with explosion risk Daniel Fruhwirt from the Institute of Thermodynamics and Sustainable Propulsion Systems at TU Graz.Photo: Lunghammer – TU Graz Source link
Read MoreEU greenlights €1.4bn in state aid for hydrogen in road transport, ships and aviation
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Read MoreVolvo to roll out first trucks with hydrogen internal combustion engines in 2026
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Read More‘Getting to net zero will need nearly a quarter less clean hydrogen than we initially predicted’: BNEF
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Read MoreHonda unveils concept heavy-duty hydrogen truck (without mentioning it was made by another automaker)
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Read MoreGlobal hydrogen vehicle sales fall by 36% year-on-year, but purchases in Europe and Japan more than double
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Read More‘Not possible’ | Rising costs force Austrian state to abandon plan to bring 35 hydrogen buses to city roads
A plan to produce and supply green hydrogen in Austria for use twice over — once as an industrial process gas in semiconductor manufacturing, and then reused as a road fuel — has hit the rocks amid concerns about its economic viability and the operational costs of H2-powered buses. The H2Carinthia programme was initiated in…
Read MoreTroubled hydrogen truckmaker Nikola exceeds sales target but revenue falls due to losses on every vehicle sold
Nikola may have sold 40 hydrogen trucks wholesale in the first quarter of 2024 — five more than it had set as a high-case target in a February outlook — but the troubled zero-emission automaker still saw its revenue drop by more than a quarter from $10.7m in Q1 2023 to $7.5m. A major reason…
Read MoreUS aims to drastically reduce costs of hydrogen electrolysers within two years
The US government’s Hydrogen and Fuel Cell Technologies Office (HFTO) plans to drive the cost of proton exchange membrane (PEM) electrolysers to a quarter of their current cost within two years, according to its latest Multi-Year Program Plan. The agency, which is the Department of Energy’s office for H2 research, development and deployment with a…
Read More‘Truck manufacturers could spread themselves too thin by investing in hydrogen combustion engines’: BNEF
Hydrogen combustion engines appear to be gaining steam as a way to decarbonise heavy vehicles, with manufacturers Bosch in Europe and the US, FAW in China, and joint ventures Tata-Cummins and Reliance-Ashok Leyland in India all planning to launch H2 engines for trucks this year. However, recent analysis by research house BloombergNEF (BNEF) warns that…
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