Due to the contractually guaranteed purchase volumes agreed by hylane, customers are offered reduced prices for green hydrogen at facilities in Düsseldorf and Rhine-Neckar.

H2 Mobility can supply fuel at €8/kg because the stations involved in the deal are large, high-utilisation sites located along major freight corridors; its Düsseldorf station has a capacity of up to five tonnes per day.

Hydrogen at public refuelling stations in Germany typically costs between €10–€15/kg, but €8/kg brings fuel cell trucks closer to diesel parity.

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The offer, however, applies only to hylane customers and only at two regional clusters, meaning the reduced price does not reflect wider market conditions.

The DEVK subsidiary rents hydrogen-powered trucks on a pay-per-use model. Dr. Sara Schiffer, the logistics firm’s Managing Director, said the agreement with H2 Mobility shows hydrogen trucks “work ecologically and economically.”

The two companies frame the offer as evidence that hydrogen trucking can be operated today, with further support from the German government’s recent toll exemption for zero-emission trucks until 2031.

Martin Jüngel, Managing Director and CFO of H2 Mobility, said, “This is the only way to create the necessary security for infrastructure operators, vehicle suppliers and customers to switch to sustainable transport and mobility applications.”

Nonetheless, hylane’s press statement reiterated that the economics of hydrogen mobility rely on Germany’s greenhouse gas quota trading system and renewable fuels of non-biological origin (RFNBO) certification under RED III, which several EU nations struggled to transpose.