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Verne , founded by Forbes 30 Under 30 alums, has raised a total of $15.5 million to help get its cheaper, lighter tanks and hydrogen fueling system out of the lab and into production. Verne , a San Francisco startup that’s developing a cheaper, lighter tank and fueling system to help semis to match the driving range and hauling ability of dirty diesel big rigs, notched its first substantial funding from private investors to commercialize the technology.
“The goal is to get diesel parity performance – that full 800-plus mile range on your vehicle like you can with diesel and you can carry a full payload like you can with diesel,” he told. “What unlocks that is a higher density form of storage. So instead of having six high-pressure tanks, you can just have two of our tanks mounted on the frame of the truck between the wheels, right where the diesel tanks go today.
Verne's hydrogen fuel tank is designed to be integrated into a semi truck's frame in the same way diesel tanks are.Battery-powered trucks, for example, have extremely heavy, large battery packs that make them thousands of pounds heavier and prevent them from hauling loads of up to 60,000 pounds over distances greater than 300 miles.
Tanks currently used in hydrogen vehicles, from Toyota’s Mirai sedan to Nikola’s Tre FCEV truck, are expensive, heavy components wrapped in layers of carbon fiber around a plastic liner, costing thousands of dollars each. They’re designed to hold the fuel at a super high compression rate of 700 pounds per square inch. Verne’s approach is to chill the hydrogen gas and store it at just 350 PSI in tanks that are made of aluminum, steel and much less carbon fiber.
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