The future of sustainable Heavy Freight logitistics.
ZERO-EMISSION
Heavy-Duty Trucks are set to become the largest contributor to road transportation CO2 emissions
ENERGY TRANSITION
Charging infrastructure is not viable for large trucking fleets
OPERATIONAL EFFICIENCY
Current solutions lack the power and payload to handle heavy freight.
Innovations in Sustainable Freight Infrastructure
Why hydrogen ?
Scalability
It is simply the mathematical phenomenon that the first battery electric truck is relatively easy to charge; a hundred trucks are difficult, a thousand very expensive. And for 15,000, it is almost impossible to provide the electric power along a route. In terms of scaling, the investment costs for electricity requirements are exponential. With fuel cells, on the other hand, it is the other way around.
Martin Daum
CEO of Daimler Truck
Small numbers of electric vehicles may work in limited cases, but costs increase geometrically with scale.
Powergrid capacity puts a hard limit on scalability of electric vehicles without structural grid upgrades.
Battery trucks become less viable with scale. Hydrogen trucks become more viable with scale.
Prior Experience: AZETEC
The first 63.5T tandem trailer hydrogen fuel cell trucks in North America.
Funded by Alberta ERA and led by AMTA.
Key lessons learned in design, manufacturing, certification and performance. More information http://azetec.ca
Hydrogen fuel cell and battery-electric solutions for Zero-Emission trucking operations