Hydrogen Truck News (24)

The hydrogen combustion truck MAN hTGX has won the Truck Innovation Award 2025. MAN Truck & Bus will be the first European truck producer to set up a small series with hydrogen combustion.  “We are particularly pleased to receive the IToY jury’s award. With the hydrogen combustion truck MAN hTGX, we are offering a useful…

Diesel, electricity & hydrogen all on test In the run-up to Germany’s huge truck show, the IAA in September this year, MAN Truck & Bus gave a preview of its September set up this month. The focus of the test drives in front of the Austrian Alps was on decarbonising road freight transport. For the…

Hydrogen Vehicle Systems (HVS), the UK’s first Hydrogen Fuel Cell truck OEM, has today signed a Partnership Agreement with Explore Plant & Transport Solutions (Explore) to supply 30 HVS hydrogen electric tractor units onto their fleet.  Under the terms of the Agreement, HVS will deliver 30 hydrogen-powered fuel cell tractor units for Explore to deploy…

Fuel Cell Vs Hydrogen Combustion Engines for Trucks This is not intended to be a technical piece aimed as a discussion about which technology is best for the future of long distance transportation. We hope to simplify and explain the basis of the technologies that may help to hitting our net zero targets whilst still…

The Truck Pages braved the weather at this year’s Road Transport Expo at the NAEC in Stoneleigh. Unlike other UK truck shows, this one actually had some truck manufacturers taking part. All the major truck manufacturers had a presence and most of them had pushed the boat out with impressive displays. So, what were the…

Volvo Trucks is developing trucks with combustion engines that run on hydrogen. On-road tests with trucks using hydrogen in combustion engines will begin in 2026, and the commercial launch is planned towards the end of this decade. Trucks that run on green hydrogen provide a significant step for Volvo to achieve its net zero goal…

MAN Truck & Bus started off well in 2024 – despite offsetting effects such as weaker demand and higher material prices. For the company as a whole, revenue rose to €3.5 billion – an increase of 3% compared to the first quarter of 2023 (€3.4 billion). Around 24,000 new vehicles sold across the world represented…

EU lawmakers have sealed a deal cementing the most ambitious CO2-reduction targets for trucks and buses globally by 2030. By 2030, the CO2 emissions of new vehicles must be at least -45% lower than 2019/2020 and, while vehicle targets are part of the puzzle for decarbonising truck and bus transport, the truck manufacturers believe that…

MAN Truck & Bus will be the first European truck producer to launch a small series with a hydrogen combustion engine. The small series of around 200 units is to be delivered to customers in Germany, the Netherlands, Norway, Iceland and selected non-European countries as early as 2025. The “MAN hTGX”, as the vehicle will…

Iveco and Hyundai have been working together successfully since 2022 and have already produced an eDAILY fuel cell van amongst others. Taking this relationship one step further, it has been announced that Iveco will market a Hyundai-manufactured battery electric chassis cab with a gross weight of between 2.6 and 3.5 tonnes. The van will be…

BP has joined as the newest member of the H2Accelerate collaboration, a collaboration that aims to accelerate the uptake of low carbon hydrogen for trucking in Europe that includes Iveco, Daimler and Volvo Trucks. With an ambition to become a net zero company by 2050, or sooner, bp aims to invest in building infrastructure to…

If you listen to Mercedes-Benz Trucks, they will tell you that both hydrogen and battery electric trucks will be needed to replace diesel in long haul applications. There is little doubt in most areas of the commercial vehicle industry that local and regional distribution will be carried out by battery electric trucks by 2040. Whether…

Zero-emission, hydrogen-powered commercial vehicle developer, Hydrogen Vehicle Systems (HVS), has taken delivery of its engineering prototype test “mule”, X1.5, at the HVS test facilities. This marks the beginning of the crucial development phase to bring the UK’s first full-sized hydrogen HGV to market. X1.5, powered by the same hydrogen fuel cell as will be used…

Until June this year, Iveco was tied to a joint venture with Nikola as far as heavy duty electric and fuel cell trucks were concerned. At this time, the company took the joint venture under sole ownership and now have the ability to market the trucks under their own Iveco brand. The Electric Truck Components…

We have already seen Volvo’s fuel cell trucks, but now the company is running them on public roads in a more major trial. This doesn’t mean that we will be seeing them available for sale any time soon – especially because there is practically nowhere to refuel them at present. However, Volvo does say that…

Nikola Corporation and IVECO announced a Letter of Intent for an order of 100 Nikola Tre hydrogen Fuel Cell Electric Vehicles (FCEVs) from GP JOULE, a system provider for integrated energy solutions based in Reussenkoege, Germany. The Nikola Tre FCEVs in the European 6×2 variant will be manufactured by the joint venture between Nikola and…

Liquefied Natural Gas, (LNG) is a greener fuel than diesel to run a truck on (quieter too) especially if the gas is reclaimed from animal and food waste. That’s what Arla Foods are attempting to do in reclaiming the bio methane from farms (which is a normal, damaging waste if vented) and using it to…

Electra Commercial Vehicles has completed a three-month trial with UK supermarket Sainsbury’s using its zero-emissions 19-tonne refrigerated hydrogen-powered truck. The Electra eCargo Fuel Cell Electric Vehicle (FCEV) travelled a typical daily journey of 208 miles from the supermarket’s depot in Sherburn-on-Elmet to Newcastle and back – emitting zero emissions versus an average of 314kg of…

Zero-emission, hydrogen-powered commercial vehicle innovator, Hydrogen Vehicle Systems (HVS), has received a £15 million grant from the UK Government’s Advanced Propulsion Centre (APC) as part of a wider funding package to support zero emission transport. HVS was awarded APC funding following a successful entry into its competition for developing automotive technologies and growing capability towards…

The truck world is gearing up for selling and operating battery electric trucks – no mean feat by any standards – but Scania have their plans one step ahead with their first commercial sale of hydrogen-powered trucks that will operate at 40 tonnes and above. Scania tell us that their main technology to drive the…