Apr 22 2022

Scania takes part in hydrogen project

Scania is currently working on a project to develop an initial 20 fuel cell electric trucks with Cummins Inc, that will run on green hydrogen in HyTrucks project.

Since many years, Scania has been part of various development projects for hydrogen technologies to gain insights. Whilst there are batteries in every fuel cell electric truck, fully battery powered trucks remain Scania’s main strategy as they provide a higher uptime and improved costs per km or hour of operations for our customers.

Built on battery electric vehicle platform

The fuel cell electric trucks will be built on Scania’s battery electric vehicle platform and leverage Cummins’ PEM fuel cell systems and hydrogen fuelling and storage solutions. Once Cummins has added fuel cells to the trucks, the 20 trucks will be delivered to HyTrucks in 2024, a jointly created initiative project in the Netherlands run by Air Liquide and the Port of Rotterdam Authority.

The HyTrucks project will enable Scania to learn even more about how to install fuel cell systems, the operations and what customers experience. “We have been clear that battery electric is what we see as the main track for all applications. Read more

Source: SCANIA