The SuperTruck 3 initiative will include several projects that aim to utilise hydrogen and fuel cells to create more efficient and environmentally friendly trucks.
Within this are some widely recognised vehicle manufacturers including Daimler, Ford, General Motors, and PACCAR.
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$33.97m has been awarded to PACCAR with the group aiming to develop eighteen Class-8 battery electric and fuel cell vehicles.
As well as this, Daimler Trucks North America has received $25.79m to additionally develop and demonstrate two Class-8 fuel cell trucks that have a 600-mile range, 25,000-hour durability with an equivalent payload capacity and range to diesel.
Ford Motor Company has been awarded $24.95m to create and demonstrate five hydrogen fuel cell electric Class-6 Super Duty trucks that target cost, payload, towing and refuelling times that are equivalent to conventional gasoline trucks.
General Motors similarly is developing and demonstrating four hydrogen fuel cell and battery electric Class 4 and 6 trucks with $26m awarded.
This project will focus on development of clean hydrogen via electrolysis and clean power for fast charging.
Jennifer Granholm, Secretary of Energy at the US Department of Energy, said, “As America’s solutions department, DOE is working with manufacturers and industry partners to reimagine vehicle transportation across the country to achieve our climate goals—from lowering carbon emissions to increasing efficiency and affordability.
“This investment and the innovations that come from it will help shape our clean energy future and strengthen domestic manufacturing that support good-paying careers for hardworking Americans.”
This is such a historic time for hydrogen, says Sunita Satyapal as she opens H2 View’s North American Virtual Hydrogen Summit
Any approach that can get the US to its ‘1 1 1’ target – reducing the cost of clean hydrogen by 80% to $1 per 1kg in 1 decade – is “on the table”, said Sunita Satyapal as she just opened H2 View’s North American Virtual Hydrogen Summit.
“We’re at $1.50 today with natural gas; we see estimates for potential for less than $2, so this is a really major effort here that we have launched. And the goal is to look at all pathways of how we can get down to $1,” the Director of the US Department of Energy’s Hydrogen and Fuel Cell Technologies Office within the Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy (EERE), continued.
Satyapal was talking about the US DOE’s Hydrogen Shot, which sets an ambitious, but achievable, cost target to accelerate innovations and spur demand of clean hydrogen.
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