Starting in Temple, TX, the vehicle completed deliveries to eight PFG customers near Dallas, travelling over 540 miles on a 16-hour continuous run including over 100-degree Fahrenheit temperatures. The run demonstrates the viability of on-board liquid hydrogen to fuel long-distance, zero-emission transport.
COPISO and the other six partners that make up the consortium that implemented the LIFE Smart Agromobility project, developed on the Sauquillo de Boñices farm (with 3,500 pigs), demonstrated the tractor on July 14 before the Soria media and a group of farmers. This project is aimed at studying the profitability of biomethane production.
The Automobile Club de l’Ouest (ACO) and the Fédération Internationale de l’Automobile (FIA) are working towards the creation of a class for hydrogen-powered prototypes at the 24 Hours of Le Mans in the next few years. MissionH24, a joint venture between the ACO and GreenGT, is conducting R+D in areas such as safety, performance and refueling.
The university’s hydrogen program Hycel and PACCAR Australia will develop zero-emissions solutions for the domestic heavy haulage market using the first hydrogen prime mover in Australia. The truck is one of 10 prototype Kenworth T680 fuel cell vehicles in existence and was included in world-first operational trials in the Port of Los Angeles in 2022.
The project, partially funded by the UK Advanced Propulsion Centre (APC), will establish if hydrogen fuel cell technology can deliver more zero-emission range to E-Transit customers traveling high mileages, with maximum loads, ancillary equipment such as chillers and with limited charging opportunities in the working shift.
Like the first two versions, the new initiative will capitalize on some of the latest available technology, including by biomethane. “Shell Starship 3.0 will feature some of the best-in-class technologies which are leading the way forward in helping decarbonize the heavy transport sector,” said Selda Gunsel, President of Shell Global Solutions.
The company presented the complete cycle of biomethane in agriculture at Agrishow 2023. During the trade fair, held in Ribeirão Preto (São Paulo, Brazil), it also showed off a full range of technologies and solutions to implement independent energy production and a carbon-neutral virtuous cycle in agriculture.
The company displayed its HPDI™ fuel system on trucks equipped with its commercially available LNG and bio-LNG and its hydrogen capable and proven variant H₂ HPDI. The HPDI system enables existing IC engine architecture to run on a variety of clean fuels (natural gas, biomethane, syngas, hydrogen), as increasingly popular alternatives to diesel engines.
The California Natural Gas Vehicle Partnership collaborated with Cummins to host a media event showcasing the Cummins X15N 15-liter natural gas engine in a Class 8 truck chassis for the first time in North America. Cummins anticipates that starting in 2024, fleets will have the opportunity to order factory-built Class 8 trucks with the X15N engine.
CNH Industrial’s brand has been awarded a 2023 Green Good Design Award for its T7 Methane Power LNG prototype tractor. The unit furthers the company’s position in the quest for viable alternative fuels. It features an LNG system that provides four times the fuel storage of the T6 model, the world’s first commercialized CNG tractor.
