Opinion: why hydrogen makes sense for heavy transport
► Here's Mercedes' take
The serious Swede doesn’t put it quite so colourfully, but he’s firmly convinced that the gas’s obvious role in our decarbonised future is as a fuel for high-mileage, heavy-duty, electric-powered freighters of the road. ‘For long-haul – through Europe, or the USA, Australia – He already has money in the game. In April 2021, Daimler Truck entered a joint venture with Volvo Group to speed the introduction of hydrogen fuel cells for long-distance trucks.
Some will be deeply disappointed that Mercedes-Benz doesn’t see hydrogen fuel cells as right for cars. There are plenty of people keen to embrace electromobility who view hydrogen fuel cells as the obvious answer to the shortcomings of batteries.The first was a Toyota Highlander FCHV sometime in the noughties in California. Based on the US-market version of the Kluger, its tanks held 6kg of hydrogen, enough to drive around 500km .
Most recent of my hydrogen highs was in a Mercedes-Benz GLC F-Cell, back 2019 and again in Germany. The electric compressor that pumped air into its fuel-cell stack looked like a giant turbocharger, and sometimes sounded like one.The GLC F-Cell was a low-volume experiment. The few hundred that were made were rented to selected customers in German cities where hydrogen was available.
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