{"id":132755,"date":"2024-08-01T09:20:44","date_gmt":"2024-08-01T06:20:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/fi\/news\/big-truckmakers-bet-on-hydrogen-to-extend-combustion-engine-life\/"},"modified":"2024-08-01T09:20:44","modified_gmt":"2024-08-01T06:20:44","slug":"big-truckmakers-bet-on-hydrogen-to-extend-combustion-engine-life","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/en\/news\/big-truckmakers-bet-on-hydrogen-to-extend-combustion-engine-life\/","title":{"rendered":"Big truckmakers bet on hydrogen to extend combustion engine life"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"mp_wrapper\">\n  <div class=\"mepr-unauthorized-message\">\n    <p>You are unauthorized to view this page.<\/p>\n  <\/div>\n  <div class=\"mepr-login-form-wrap\">\n            \n<div class=\"mp_wrapper mp_login_form\">\n                  <!-- mp-login-form-start -->     <form name=\"mepr_loginform\" id=\"mepr_loginform\" class=\"mepr-form\" action=\"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/en\/login-2\/\" method=\"post\" data-trp-original-action=\"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/en\/login-2\/\">\n            <div class=\"mp-form-row mepr_username\">\n        <div class=\"mp-form-label\">\n                              <label for=\"user_login\">Username<\/label>\n        <\/div>\n        <input type=\"text\" name=\"log\" id=\"user_login\" value=\"\" \/>\n      <\/div>\n      <div class=\"mp-form-row mepr_password\">\n        <div class=\"mp-form-label\">\n          <label for=\"user_pass\">Password<\/label>\n          <div class=\"mp-hide-pw\">\n            <input type=\"password\" name=\"pwd\" id=\"user_pass\" value=\"\" \/>\n            <button type=\"button\" class=\"button mp-hide-pw hide-if-no-js\" data-toggle=\"0\" aria-label=\"Show password\">\n              <span class=\"dashicons dashicons-visibility\" aria-hidden=\"true\"><\/span>\n            <\/button>\n          <\/div>\n        <\/div>\n      <\/div>\n            <div>\n        <label><input name=\"rememberme\" type=\"checkbox\" id=\"rememberme\" value=\"forever\" \/> Remember Me<\/label>\n      <\/div>\n      <div class=\"mp-spacer\">&nbsp;<\/div>\n      <div class=\"submit\">\n        <input type=\"submit\" name=\"wp-submit\" id=\"wp-submit\" class=\"button-primary mepr-share-button\" value=\"Log In\" \/>\n        <input type=\"hidden\" name=\"redirect_to\" value=\"\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/132755\" \/>\n        <input type=\"hidden\" name=\"mepr_process_login_form\" value=\"true\" \/>\n        <input type=\"hidden\" name=\"mepr_is_login_page\" value=\"false\" \/>\n      <\/div>\n    <input type=\"hidden\" name=\"trp-form-language\" value=\"en\"\/><\/form>\n    <div class=\"mp-spacer\">&nbsp;<\/div>\n    <div class=\"mepr-login-actions\">\n        <a\n          href=\"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/en\/login-2\/?action=forgot_password\"\n          title=\"Click here to reset your password\"\n        >\n          Forgot Password        <\/a>\n    <\/div>\n\n      \n    <!-- mp-login-form-end --> \n  <\/div>\n      <\/div>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div class=\"smart_content_wrapper\">\n<p>Some of the world&#8217;s biggest truckmakers, including Volvo and MAN, are reworking combustion engines to run on low-emission hydrogen instead of polluting diesel, a quicker low-cost fix to their energy transition challenge that may give the dying technology a fresh lease of life.<\/p>\n<p>The global truck making industry faces a complex balancing act to get to zero emissions. Electric batteries are too heavy for long-haul freight operations and take long to charge. Using hydrogen fuel cells to generate electricity reduces the weight and extends the range of trucks, but switching to this technology is expensive as companies need to design new truck systems.<\/p>\n<p>That is why truckmakers and their suppliers have shifted their immediate focus on developing hydrogen combustion engines as a quicker, cheaper solution that can rely on existing manufacturing lines that have for years been a key economic motor for countries like Germany, executives at major truck brands and their suppliers told Reuters. Concerns over what will happen to thousands of jobs in engine-making plants have grown as truckmakers shift towards battery and fuel cell options.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Everybody is working on this,&#8221; said Reiner Roessner, vice president for sales at the engine division of MAN Truck &amp; Bus SE, part of Volkswagen (VOWG_p.DE), opens new tab trucking unit Traton (8TRA.DE), opens new tab, even as green hydrogen produced by renewable sources is not yet widely available. &#8220;As soon as the hydrogen is available, demand for hydrogen combustion will go up.&#8221; In its first pilot project, MAN will deliver around 200 trucks with engines that run on hydrogen to European customers next year to test in their fleets, a key step on the way towards mass production.<\/p>\n<p>Truckmakers are still investing in developing hydrogen fuel cells as they say there is room for both technologies to exist side by side for different vehicle types and uses. Swedish truckmaker Volvo AB (VOLVb.ST), opens new tab, which says it will also have hydrogen fuel cell trucks &#8220;commercially available in the second half of this decade,&#8221; is planning customer tests of hydrogen combustion engine models starting in 2026. Hydrogen combustion engines &#8220;will not be the majority&#8221; of Volvo&#8217;s sales, said chief technology officer Lars Stenqvist. &#8220;But it will be a substantial volume.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Anders Johansson, vice president for heavy-duty vehicles at Vancouver-based Westport Fuel Systems , said his company has already provided fuelling systems for 6,000 combustion engine trucks in Europe that run on natural gas or biogas and can easily be adapted to hydrogen.<\/p>\n<p><a rel=\"noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/business\/autos-transportation\/big-truckmakers-bet-hydrogen-extend-combustion-engine-life-2024-08-01\/\">Read more&gt;&gt;<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Source: <a rel=\"noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/business\/autos-transportation\/big-truckmakers-bet-hydrogen-extend-combustion-engine-life-2024-08-01\/\">Reuters<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>The post <a rel=\"noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/vastuullisuusuutiset.fi\/fi\/vaufien\/eu-proceeds-with-first-tranche-of-short-term-emergency-financial-support-to-the-palestinian-authority-2\/\">Big truckmakers bet on hydrogen to extend combustion engine life<\/a> appeared first on <a rel=\"noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/vastuullisuusuutiset.fi\/fi\">Vastuullisuusuutiset.fi<\/a>.<\/p>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[22],"tags":[623,15525,606,607,608],"class_list":["post-132755","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-hydrogen","tag-truckmakers","tag-vau_viikkokatsaus","tag-vauen","tag-vaufien"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/132755","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=132755"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/132755\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=132755"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=132755"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=132755"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}