Mercedes-Benz GenH2 truck completes Daimler Truck's record run

Powered by a cellcentric fuel-cell system and equipped with a liquid hydrogen fuel tank system, the run started 25th September 2023, in the afternoon at Mercedes-Benz Truck’s Customer Centre in Woerth am Rhein, Germany and finished on Tuesday morning. (26 September 2023) in Germany’s capital city, Berlin. The truck completed the run fully loaded and with a gross combined vehicle weight of 40 tons under real-life conditions, without emitting any CO₂ during the complete run. The record drive with sealed tanks and controlled mileage was independently confirmed by an inspection document from TÜV Rheinland.

After the successful record run, Andreas Gorbach, Member of the Board of Management of Daimler Truck AG, Head of Truck Technology, drove the truck across the finish line in the Ministergarten in Berlin: “To decarbonise transport, we need both battery-electric and hydrogen-powered drive technologies. The sweet spot for fuel cell trucks lies in flexible and demanding long-haul transportation tasks. By cracking the 1000 km mark with one fill, we have now impressively demonstrated: Hydrogen in trucks is anything but hot air, and we are making very good progress on the road to series production. At the same time, our record run today is a reminder that decarbonising transportation requires two other factors in addition to the right drive technologies: a green energy infrastructure and competitive costs compared to conventional vehicles."

Ahead of the run, the Mercedes-Benz GenH2 Truck was fuelled with liquid hydrogen at Daimler Truck’s filling station at the company’s development and testing centre in Woerth, Gemrnay. The hydrogen supplied by Air Liquide is of renewable origin, as it has been produced from biomethane with guarantees of origin.

Daimler Truck prefers liquid hydrogen in the development of hydrogen-based drives. In this aggregate state the energy carrier has a significantly higher energy density in relation to volume compared to gaseous hydrogen. As a result, more hydrogen can be carried, which significantly increases the range and enables comparable performance of the vehicle with that of a conventional diesel truck.

Read the article online at: https://www.globalhydrogenreview.com/hydrogen/27092023/mercedes-benz-genh2-truck-completes-daimler-trucks-record-run/