Hyzon Motors and its joint venture partner expect to deliver 15 hydrogen fuel cell trucks to a city in the Netherlands before the end of the year. (Photo: Hizon Motors)
Hyzon Motors, the spin-off of Singaporean SPAC-backed Horizon Fuel Cell Technologies, has begun producing fuel cell trucks in Europe. It expects to deliver the first 15 zero-emission units to a city in the Netherlands in the third quarter.
The municipality of Groningen’s orders are being fulfilled by a joint venture between Hyzon Motors Europe BV and Holthausen Clean Technology.
The 15 hydrogen vehicle order consists of 10 zero-emission medium and heavy-duty trucks, including water, waste, hooklifts and delivery trucks, and five zero-emission vans. All trucks are expected to be delivered by the end of the year. HCT previously supplied 10 fuel cell vehicles to Groningen, a city of 200,000 located in the northern Netherlands.
Groningen is known as the energy city. For more than a decade, it has invested in alternative fuels to power the city’s vehicle fleet. Groningen aims to reach zero carbon emissions by 2025 in the inner city areas and carbon neutrality throughout the municipality by 2035.
Europe takes the lead in fuel cells
This European step is consistent with the continent’s early leadership in the field of hydrogen production and fuel cells.
Nikola (NASDAQ: NKLA), manufacturing joint venture partner IVECO and German pipeline company OGE will work together to transport hydrogen to stations serving commercial fuel cell electric vehicles (FCEVs) via a 124-mile pipeline.
Daimler Trucks and the Volvo Group formed a joint venture to make fuel cell trucks in the second half of the decade that will be sold through their rival brands.
Last October, the South Korean Hyundai Motor Company delivered the first of 50 Xcient fuel cell trucks to Switzerland.
Trade group Hydrogen Europe expects there to be 10,000 hydrogen trucks on European roads by 2025 and 100,000 by 2030, according to a position paper issued in December.
The Hyzon SPAC is expected to close this quarter
Hizon established its US base at General Motors’ former fuel cell headquarters near Rochester, New York, last July. It has announced an expansion there and the construction of a fuel cell materials manufacturing facility near Chicago.
Hyzon is backed by Decarbonization Plus Acquisition Corp. (NASDAQ:DCRB), a special purpose acquisition company that has raised $626 million to invest in Hyzon, and which expects to receive $570 million of those funds when the business combination closes this quarter.
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