As part of the ‘Bayernflotte’ (Bavarian fleet) research project, commercial vehicle manufacturer MAN Truck & Bus presented its first commercial vehicles equipped with a hydrogen drive in February. The State of Bavaria is providing a sum of €8.5m for this future-oriented project. Along with four other companies, the Rhenus Group will test the hydrogen-powered fuel cell trucks in real-world operations for one year starting in 2024.
‘The main advantage of a hydrogen drive over the battery-powered electric truck is clearly the longer range,’ explains Sascha Hähnke, Managing Director of Rhenus Transport. ‘Furthermore, purely battery-electric drives cannot entirely replace diesel trucks simply because of the expected overloads of the power grids due to voltage peaks. In my opinion, we won’t have to opt for a single drive technology in the future but will continue to use several sustainable technologies in various deployment scenarios.’
Source: Rhenus
