Daimler presents hydrogen truck – it achieves a range of 1,000 kilometers

Created: 2022-06-28Updated: 2022-06-28 12:09 p.m

By: Patricia Huber

The gradual farewell to combustion engines is also heralded for trucks.

Daimler Truck is now putting the hydrogen transporter on the road.

Wörth am Rhein – Is this the future?

Daimler Truck plans to produce hydrogen trucks with a range of around 1,000 kilometers.

Liquid hydrogen is to be put into the tanks, which has a higher energy density than gaseous hydrogen and therefore enables longer ranges.

The manufacturer announced this on Monday in the southern Palatinate town of Wörth am Rhein.

The LLW builder has a large plant there with around 10,000 employees.

It is hardly surprising that sales of hydrogen cars continue to rise.

Daimler Truck: New hydrogen truck achieves a range of 1,000 kilometers with one tankful

The first test vehicles with fuel cells are already on the road.

Test fleets with hydrogen trucks are expected to come onto the market in the middle of the decade.

In the second half of the decade, the fuel cell truck should then go into series production, as the manufacturer reports.

Test fleets with hydrogen trucks on the roads from the middle of the decade

The truck industry is under pressure from the EU to comply with binding climate protection targets.

New models should emit an average of 15 percent less carbon dioxide by 2025 and at least 30 percent by 2030.

The reference period for this is the years 2019 and 2020. If the requirements are not met, there are high penalties.

In the future, Daimler Truck would like to rely more on hydrogen - and the latest truck development is impressive.

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Hydrogen truck: Rhineland-Palatinate Minister of Economics praises the idea

The Rhineland-Palatinate Economics Minister Daniela Schmitt (FDP) welcomes the fact that the manufacturer is not just relying on one technology when transitioning to new drives.

You have to look at the individual types of traffic in detail, she said.

The hydrogen hype has already arrived in other countries.

In China, the first hydrogen car has already gone into series production.

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In the transition from the combustion engine to new drives, Daimler Truck uses batteries and fuel cells.

By the end of the decade, zero-emission commercial vehicles are expected to account for up to 60 percent of sales.

The manufacturer is one of the world's leading industry companies and employs more than 100,000 people.

In order to secure production, Daimler Truck wants to build a fuel cell factory with Volvo in Weilheim an der Teck, Swabia.

800 people are said to work there.

The Cellcentric joint venture is responsible for this project.

Daimler Truck is already planning charging infrastructure for hydrogen

Daimler Truck is involved in several partnerships to set up charging infrastructure for hydrogen.

There is an agreement with the energy giants BP, Shell and TotalEnergies to set up hydrogen filling stations.

In the event that there is no hydrogen filling station nearby, Toyota has introduced "mobile reserve tanks" for hydrogen cars.