Hydrogen retro fit and semi retro fit diesel motors

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Toyota is working to stand out in the congested hydrogen trucks market
September 14, 2023 1 By JULIE CAMPBELL hydrogen fuel news...
The company has been pushing hard for H2 fuel cells and is now entering an already busy ecosystem.
Toyota is easily among the automakers making the most noise about the promise of fuel cells in transportation and is now diving straight into hydrogen trucks in a way that would be impossible to avoid noticing.
Though these vehicles have yet to reach mainstream use, they are increasingly seen as the future of trucking.
As the world aims to decarbonize, hydrogen trucks offer a carbon emission-free option with the expected range, performance and refueling time that the industry already expects. Though there are challenges to transitioning to this energy option as well, new solutions are emerging and the cost associated with green hydrogen – that is, H2 produced using renewable energy without releasing carbon emissions into the atmosphere – are sustainably falling.

Many of Toyota's top headlines with respect to the use of this technology has been its focus on H2-powered cars. This is what brought about the two generations of the Mirai, a sedan using a fuel cell to power an electric motor...
...This complete package means that Toyota's focus on hydrogen trucks isn't just on vehicles that have been originally made to run on H2. Instead, the automaker is also strategically focusing on drawing bus and truck makers that already have established diesel vehicle manufacturing. Toyota plans to begin producing the kits before the close of 2023. They will be manufactured in the company's Kentucky factory.
New partnerships
Toyota has been placing a high focus on building new partnerships for the use of its kit. This includes partnerships with Peterbilt and Kenworth. Each of those companies are PACCAR branches. That firm is a recipient of a US Department of Energy "Super Truck 3" program grant for the construction of hydrogen trucks.

[windtrader]

Public and private enterprises. Public is well, public so all it's fuinding comes from taxes or other intergovernment transfers. It's going to take extra funds to increase the fueling network as well as the conversion to H2 or funds to purchase new vehicles.

Private for profit enterrprises are going to make it pencil out and that will likely require supplemental government funding to make the numbers work.
Living in Sacramento, I am tuned into the various alternate vehicle initiatives as I see the building where all the majors have done intiial testing and development. The big question is with plenty of government support policies and funds, it did not catch here. I believe CA is the only state in the USA where one can refuel hydrogen beyond captive uses such as transit systems. Why did it fail and what has changed that answers common sense skepitism?

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Hydrogen Fuel News
ANGI and Nikola's Dynamic Alliance for a Robust Hydrogen Fuel Network
September 18, 2023 0 By JOHN MAX
The companies will be working together to install and commission the locations across the US.
ANGI Energy Systems (a Vontier company) and Nikola Corporation have entered into an agreement in which they will install new hydrogen fuel infrastructure solutions through Nikola's HYLA brand.

The collaboration is meant to help advance the availability of Nikola's H2 decarbonization ecosystem.
ANGI will seek to provide Nikola's plan with the support it needs to lay out the largest open network of commercial hydrogen fuel stations in North America. It will do so by installing technically advanced H2 dispensers under the HYLA brand. The dispensers will be designed to be the first HD-ready solutions in the industry. They will provide heavy-duty vehicles with high flow refueling. This network expansion is a component of a broader partnership with Voltera, a leading critical infrastructure provider. The goal is to provide the infrastructure necessary for transportation decarbonization.

Many industry experts say that using H2 is notably more appropriate for heavier-duty commercial vehicles because of the lower weight, faster refueling time, and better energy efficiency. H2-powered vehicles are under development by the majority of leading global truck manufacturers. According to data from the Hydrogen Council, there are over 130 H2 models that will have been assembled by the close of this year. Most of those will be commercial vehicles.

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Hydrogen fuel news
Solaris to deliver biggest order of hydrogen fuel buses to Europe
September 18, 2023 0 By ERIN KILGORE
The record order of Solaris H2 buses has been made by TPER.
The municipal transport operator TPER in the city of Bologna, Italy, will purchase as many as 130 hydrogen fuel buses from the Polish bus maker, with TPER having the option to extend the order by an extra 140 vehicles...
...The Urbino 12 hydrogen bus is powered by a 70-kilowatt fuel cell system that is powered by hydrogen stored in five Type-IV composite tanks located on the bus's roof. The tanks can hold as much as 37.5 kilograms of hydrogen, allowing the bus to cover approximately 350 kilometers (217.48 miles).

As previously reported by Hydrogen Fuel News, Solaris has two models of Urbino buses, the Urbino 12 hydrogen bus, released in 2019, and the Urbino 18 hydrogen bus, released in 2022. Canadian company Ballard Power Systems is a main supplier of the fuel cell engines used by the Solaris hydrogen fuel buses...

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autoevolution
Following the EU-funded H2Engine project, between 2020 and 2022, the German company KEYOU developed a solution to convert conventional diesel engines into much cleaner hydrogen. Earlier this year, such a converted engine was used by Mercedes-Benz Special Trucks in a Unimog prototype.

In September, KEYOU started the first deliveries of their 18-tonne truck equipped with a hydrogen engine, based on the Mercedes Benz Actros. The six-cylinder converted diesel engine has a fuel consumption of 7.5 kg H2 / 100 km, and the fuel is supplied via port fuel injection, designed specifically for using hydrogen.
KEYOU claims that efficient lean-burn combustion keeps the NOx levels well below limits, and the converted engine meets Euro VI standards and the new EU's CO2 requirements. As a result, the truck is exempt from truck tolls, saving fleet operators "up to €15,000 in tolls per year."
American corporation Cummins is also providing heavy-duty vehicles with hydrogen internal combustion engines. Their latest product is the X15H hydrogen engine designed to fit heavy-duty trucks up to 44 tonnes, providing an impressive peak torque of 2,600 Nm.

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Daimler Truck's GenH2 sets single-hydrogen-fill run record
Fuel cell truck covers 650 miles in overnight run through Germany
Alan Adler
BERLIN — The hydrogen-powered Mercedes-Benz GenH2 fuel cell semi returned to the German capital where it was introduced as a prototype three years ago. This is time it completed a record 650-mile (1,047-kilometer) overnight journey on a single fillup of liquid hydrogen.

Traveling the autobahns from Woerth am Rhein, the home of Daimler's massive truck manufacturing complex that produces 500 primarily diesel trucks a day, to the German capital proved far easier than the final mile. A large red utility truck blocked the scheduled arrival at Ministergarten for 10 minutes after the GenH2 passed the famous Brandenburg Gate that separated communist East Germany from democratic West Germany during the Cold War.

Daimler's video efforts, including a drone, tracked the 88,200-pound tractor-trailer loaded with 55,100 pounds of gravel as it inched along a busy Ebertstrassem, feeding the footage to a large video board erected for the event.

Andreas Gorbach, head of technology for the world's largest truck maker, drove the final miles, deftly squeezing the truck through a narrow gate onto In den Ministergarten as global media video crews scrambled to find angles to capture the arrival.

"People weren't scared the truck would make the 1,000 kilometers. They were scared that I would damage something while driving in," Gorbach said with a laugh during a FreightWaves interview.

Matching a diesel truck's performance — absent the emissions
The record-setting run showed a fuel cell truck could match the long-haul capability of a diesel while emitting only environmentally harmless water vapor.

[Jim Blackwood]

That's really a significant accomplishment. Bear in mind though that hydrogen is a less power dense fuel so it takes up more space. How much more we haven't been told. Many trucks run at less than full load due to the lighter density of the product being carried so space available for cargo is a consideration. Gravel is a pretty dense cargo. This is why H2 is a better choice for big trucks than for small cars. Still, progress is good.

Jim

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Nikola's Landmark Launch of it's Hydrogen Fuel Cell Trucks North America
October 6, 2023 2 By TAMI HOOD
The company celebrated the milestone by way of its HYLA brand in Coolidge, Arizona.
Through its HYLA brand, Nikola Corporation recently achieved a notable milestone when it launched its commercial hydrogen fuel cell truck at its Coolidge, Arizona manufacturing facility.
The company held a celebration with its fleet customers and dealers in attendance.
At the ceremony, fleet customers and Nikola sales and service network dealers were present, as were prominent community and business leaders from nearby Phoenix, in addition to government officials. Naturally, the dedicated Nikola team was also there, each of whom played a critical role in bringing the hydrogen fuel cell truck to this point.

Part of the celebration event involved words from Nikola executives as well as Arizona Commerce Authority President and CEO Sandra Watson. Other components of the event included demonstrations of the truck and of H2, overviews of the sustainability impact, tours of the production line, as well as informal tech Q&As with Nikola engineers regarding the HYLA ecosystem, H2 safety, and the Nikola human machine interface system.
The vehicle boasts a 500-mile (approximately 800 kilometers) range on a full tank and an estimated refueling time as short as 20 minutes. According to Nikola, the vehicle is expected to have one of the longest ranges among all zero-emission Class 8 trucks commercially available.

Many applications
hydrogen news ebookThe company says that the new hydrogen fuel cell truck is highly versatile, with applications including everything from metro-regional truckloads to intermodal truckload and drayage, or even less-than-truckload in some cases of specialized hauling.

This Year for Nikola HYLA Stations
In July, Nikola Corporation, in partnership with Voltera, received a $41.9 million grant from the California Transportation Commission. This funding is to build six heavy-duty HYLA-branded hydrogen fueling stations in Southern California. These stations, part of a larger initiative towards zero-emission transport, will be positioned along busy freight corridors near Los Angeles, San Diego, and the Mojave Desert region.

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Power Engineering
Hydrogen
The day has arrived: Here are the recipients of $7 billion in federal hydrogen hub funding

The U.S. Department of Energy made the highly-anticipated announcement for the initiative aimed at scaling up clean hydrogen production, storage, delivery and consumption in the U.S.

The day has arrived: Here are the recipients of $7 billion in federal hydrogen hub funding
(Source: U.S. Department of Energy.)

The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) on Oct. 13 named seven regional clean hydrogen hubs to receive $7 billion in federal funding, a long-awaited announcement for an initiative aimed at accelerating the commercial-scale deployment of clean hydrogen and driving down its cost.
Funded by Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act (IIJA), the seven H2Hubs are located around the U.S. and aim to jumpstart a national network of clean hydrogen producers, consumers and connective infrastructure. Each hub will include clean hydrogen production, storage, delivery and end-use components.

Clean Hydrogen is expected to play a particularly important role in cleaning up hard-to-decarbonize sectors like refining, chemicals and heavy-duty transport.
Another major driver for clean hydrogen: Signed into law last year, the Inflation Reduction Act (IRA) includes a suite of tax incentives for project developers and is aimed at jumpstarting the industry. But the U.S. Treasury Department will need to determine how to account for the emissions from electricity used to make electrolytic hydrogen. Read our full primer with different viewpoints from the industry here.

The H2Hubs are expected to collectively produce three million metric tons of hydrogen annually, reaching nearly a third of the 2030 U.S. production target and lowering emissions from these industrial sectors that represent 30 percent of total U.S. carbon emissions...

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Added info on the regional hydrogen Hubs:
  The seven hubs will eventually produce 3 million tons of hydrogen per year, or 30% of the national goal DOE has set for 10 million tons of hydrogen produced by 2030. A senior administration official has estimated the hubs will lower the country's planet-warming carbon dioxide pollution by roughly 25 million metric tons per year from end use, roughly equivalent to taking 5.5 million gasoline-powered cars off the road.

DOE's $7 billion investment in the hubs will be met by a combined cost share of more than $40 billion by the awardees.

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Hydrogen fuel news
Hydrogen fuel cell bus collaboration begins between Hyundai and Iveco
October 18, 2023  By TAMI HOOD
The partnership is focused on the E-WAY H2 vehicle which was developed jointly.
Hyundai Motor and Iveco Group have collaborated to create a hydrogen fuel cell bus called the E-WAY H2 through a partnership that has now been consolidated and solidified moving forward.

The companies placed their H2 vehicle in the spotlight when they showcased it at Busworld Europe 2023.
The hydrogen fuel cell bus drew substantial attention at the event, which opened in Brussels, Belgium on October 6. It is an additional vehicle in the Hyundai commercial H2-powered lineup following the Elec City and the Universe.

This new vehicle was built with an Iveco 310-kilowatt electric motor combined with Hyundai's cutting edge HTWO fuel cell system to power it.

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This new vehicle was built with an Iveco 310-kilowatt electric motor combined with Hyundai's cutting edge HTWO fuel cell system to power it.

God is this thread never going to die?

Hydrogen is not the answer unless it involves oil companies is some form or another. They are used to manufacturing the fuel and then distributing it to customers with a markup so that they are always profitable. When was the last time you heard of an oil company going under?

All the bus companies that have rear engine motors should get together and come up with a docking station where the battery can be changed out in couple of minutes with a fork lift. Heck do the same with semi-trucks where it is inserted in the front of the truck.

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Oil and gas companies are seen as climate villains. Truth is, we'll need their expertise to make green hydrogen a reality
The Conversation
Published: March 1, 2023 2.07pm EST
Murray Shearer, CQUniversity Australia

...Shell just bought into a green hydrogen megaproject in Oman, for instance, where it will be the lead operator. Late last year, BP bought a controlling stake in Australia's largest renewable project, the Asian Renewable Energy Hub. If built in its entirety, this project would generate the equivalent of a third of Australia's 2020 electricity production.
The planned Pilbara renewable megaproject would power mining operations and export green hydrogen...
...Oil and gas majors are well placed to make green hydrogen and green chemicals...
But oil and gas companies are experienced in handling hydrogen. That's because it's widely used in oil refineries to scrub sulphur out of oil and to help crack heavy oil into lighter grades. In fact, it's so useful that most of the world's hydrogen is used in oil production...

[Jim Blackwood]

If you think for one second that the oil companies are going to let just anybody gain the slightest toehold into the energy market then you really just don't understand how things work. They've got it, and they have everything they need to keep it. It would take a fool not to take advantage of that and the shareholders will not tolerate fools for very long. The single chance any outsider has is in developing a niche market and they had better get everything absolutely right the first time and have extremely solid financing and guidance behind them or it isn't going very far. Alternate energy sources will come and go but it will be the oil companies that own them. All the 3rd parties are going to accomplish is to spur the big guys to action of one sort or another. Might be their own development programs, might be to purchase or subvert those 3rd parties, might be supression or something else entirely. Murder is a time hionored solution as well. Look closely at any new entry which has been successful and you will find either close ties to the existing power structure or extremely deep pockets. I highly doubt any other truly successful exceptions exist.

Jim

[windtrader]

If hydrogen does get more push by mandate or market forces, big oil will get in if there is profit. BP and others branched into solar and I'm sure they are kicking tires and small projects in hydrogen and other potential sources of revenue. They know the world is going to reduce petro as the primary source for vehicles in the coming years.