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A consortium with partners from Belgium, Germany, Spain, and Portugal is testing a bi-modal train prototype, which uses its pantograph on regular electrified lines and a fuel cell and hydrogen to make its own electricity when not available. Brussels-based Toyota […]
Clean, ‘green hydrogen’ made with renewable energy will become cheaper sooner than expected, with costs dropping by 85% to become even cheaper than natural gas by 2050. That is, below $1/kg ($7,4/MMBtu) by 2050, says BloombergNEV (BNEV), the Bloomberg media […]
American heavy fuel cell truck developer Hyzon is launching its leasing service in the European Union. It’s intended to be a ‘holistic fleet leasing offering’ for the European market that includes the Hyzon FCEV trucks, the hydrogen fuel, insurance, service, […]
By the end of the year, automotive group Stellantis will have three hydrogen-powered vans in its dealerships. The fuel cell Peugeot Expert, Citroën Jumpy, and Opel Vivaro will be assembled at the Opel’s Russelsheim site in Germany, which has become […]
Belgian retail group Colruyt and international beer giant Anheuser-Busch InBev are joining forces to set up a market for hydrogen-driven road transport, starting with a 44-ton hydrogen truck delivering beer to the distribution center regularly. With the Belgian project, both […]
The hydrogen train developed by Alstom will finally be put on the rails in its home country France too, in four pioneering regions by 2023. Twelve to fourteen trains will be delivered through a frame contract with the railway company […]
In the wake of the Renaulution plan, CEO Luca de Meo’s sweeping stratagem for a turnaround at the brand, Renault is also uplifting and reviewing its commercial vehicle branch. As part of its energy transition, it is expanding and will […]
California-based green energy start-up HyPoint has developed a lightweight fuel cell stack prototype that claims to outperform by far the energy density limits of current lithium-ion batteries that today prevent the breakthrough of zero-emission aviation. HyPoint’s ‘turbo air-cooled’ fuel cell […]
The Hopium Māchina, the dream car four-door sedan on hydrogen envisioned by French racing driver Oliver Lombard, is scheduled to be presented as a prototype by June 2021. According to the company that went public on the Paris Stock Exchange […]
After recording a 35,4% sales drop during the first quarter of 2020, French automotive equipment manufacturer Faurecia got back in shape during the second half-year and capped its sales revenue losses to 19,4 % for the whole year as it […]
Belgian gas grid manager Fluxys is backing up the promising KU Leuven research in hydrogen panels producing the ‘green gas’ directly from the air using the energy of the sun. On the roof of its labs in Anderlecht, a center […]
Energy provider Engie and chemical company Ineos Phenol are experimenting with a hydrogen project in Antwerp’s port. Hydrogen is injected into a gas turbine’s natural gas supply to reduce the CO2 emissions of the operational processes gradually. Both partners join […]
American fuel cell truck developer Hyzon will deliver in the next five years 1 500 heavy-duty trucks on hydrogen to New Zealand’s Hiringa Energy. The New Zealand hydrogen specialist builds a countrywide network of hydrogen stations and offers the trucks […]
Last year, a ‘record number’ of 107 new hydrogen filling stations was opened throughout the world, bringing the total to 560 according to the 13th Annual assessment of H2stations.org, an information service by the German system technic bureau LBST. The […]
After years of a love-hate relationship, the marriage of convenience between Antwerp and Zeebrugge’s harbors will create Europe’s largest auto-transfer hub in Belgium with nearly 3 million vehicles a year. But when the wedding is finalized this year, it will […]
The Belgian-Dutch non-profit organization WaterstofNet has seen the number of member companies of its knowledge and industrial collaborative partnership ‘Hydrogen Industry Cluster’ (Waterstof Industrie Cluster or WIC) grow with twelve new members to seventy. Among the latest to join big […]
The European Commission has approved under the EU Merger Regulation the joint-venture German truck builder Daimler Truck AG and its Swedish competitor Volvo Trucks to develop fuel cell systems (FCS) for heavy-duty vehicles and as a derivate, also stationary power […]
A consortium of 25 European companies and organizations, called StasHH, has joined forces to define fuel cell module standards for heavy-duty applications, like hydrogen trucks, buses, and ships. The total budget to ‘kickstart’ the adoption of a standard fuel cell […]
Imagine a swappable cartridge with a chemical paste holding sufficient hydrogen to propel your electric scooter, delivering ten times the capacity of a battery. The ‘Powerpaste’ is currently under development at the Fraunhofer Institute for Manufacturing Technology and Advanced Materials […]
America’s biggest car manufacturer, General Motors, is the first to react to the new (green) wind blowing from the White House. GM plans to be carbon neutral in 2040 and produce as few polluting vehicles as possible from 2035 onward. […]
A study by the Hydrogen Import Coalition (HIC) shows that shipping wind and solar energy from other sunny and windy parts of the world to Belgian ports is ‘feasible and cost-effective’. The idea is to use hydrogen carriers that are […]
HysetCo, the French asset management company that runs a fleet of more than 100 hydrogen-powered taxis in Paris under the Hype brand has acquired cab operator Slota Group. Toyota Mirai FCEVs will progressively replace Slota’s current fleet of 600 diesel […]
In a joint press release, French petroleum group Total and French energy provider Engie have announced the launch of the Masshylia project for hydrogen production from renewable electricity. A new 40 MW electrolyzer will be built on Total’s biorefinery in […]
Born out of French racing driver Olivier Lombard’s imagination, Hopium is on its way to build the world’s first high-performance luxury sedan powered by hydrogen. Boasting more than 500 hp and 1 000 km of range, the Hopium Mãchina prototype […]
The American e-truck start-up, Nikola, is further sliding down the slope after announcing that the mega-deal for 2 500 battery-electric garbage trucks was abandoned. Nikola would develop these refuse trucks based on the electric Tre for Republic Services, one of […]
Toyota Motor Europe (TME) is strengthening its alliance with Portuguese bus builder CaetanoBus in the development, production, and sales of fuel cell-driven city buses. It’s now becoming a shareholder through its existing joint venture Toyota Caetano Portugal (TCAP). TME is […]
Truck manufacturers Daimler Truck, Volvo Group, and Iveco are teaming up with oil and gas companies Royal Dutch Shell and Austrian OMV to accelerate the rollout of hydrogen trucks in Europe. The ‘common-interest alliance’ is baptized H2Accelerate (H2A). It wants […]
CEOs of all European truck manufacturers have agreed – under the umbrella of EU car federation ACEA – to have all new trucks sold by 2040 to run fossil-free. They acknowledge that it is the only way to attain the […]
The European Commission has presented its plan for a ‘smart, green, and affordable transport’ of the future on Wednesday. The ‘‘Sustainable and Smart Mobility Strategy’ is an 82-points plan focusing on ten key areas called ‘flagships’ with targets set for […]
On Tuesday, German car manufacturing group Daimler announced to sell its Smart production plant in Hambach (north-east of France) to Ineos Automotive, part of the British chemical company Ineos. All staff should be transferred to the new owner, and production […]
‘Limburg Hydrogen Society’ a consortium of companies and institutions active in the Belgian province, has the ambition to produce green hydrogen locally and have a filling station operational in Genk by 2023. The goal for participating partners like logistics company […]
American carmaker General Motors is withdrawing from its deal with electric truck start-up Nikola to become a shareholder and co-develop and build the latter’s Badger pickup. As that project was only viable with an established carmaker’s help, Nikola decided to […]
The second generation of Toyota’s hydrogen car Mirai is very different from its predecessor. As a consequence, the number one Japanese car manufacturer has much higher ambitions for Mirai II. It wants to sell at least ten times more Mirai […]
Flanders has dedicated €125 million of its post-corona €4,3 billion ‘Resilion-plan’ for research and innovation in the field of hydrogen as a green alternative energy. ‘Only’ 125 million, as compared to €9 billion Germany is betting on hydrogen and France’s […]
On Thursday, French train manufacturer Alstom announced having signed a contract with the regional Italian rail operator, Ferrovie Nord Milano (FNM), to deliver six hydrogen trains. The manufacturer has converted its Coradia regional train platform to fuel cell technology to […]
