Hydrogen in heavy transport, Nov. 23, 2022

Wednesday, Nov. 23, the meeting "Hydrogen for heavy transport vehicles" was held at KWR Water Research Institute, organized from the "Hydrogen in Mobility Covenant Province of Utrecht.

We look back on a successful meeting where manufacturers and transporters came a little closer together. As many as 11 suppliers and manufacturers indicated their progress in developing and supplying hydrogen transport vehicles:

• Hojun Suh of Hyundai Hydrogen Mobility AG
• Joost Koopmans of Volvo Group
• Peter Kramer of DAF Trucks NV
• Loek Vroon of Iveco Group
• Richard Bos of Daimler Truck AG
• Paul Bruns of FAUN
• Marcel de Rycker of Tevva Hydrogen Electric Trucks
• David Boerhof of Shell/Paul Nutzfahrzeuge
• Hans van Dijk of GINAF Trucks Nederland B.V.
• Aldwin Oechies of Holthausen Clean Technology
• Robert Goevaers of HyTrucks

Transporters are finding that clients are increasingly asking for sustainable transport and are willing to pay for it, but we still need to take bigger steps to take sustainable transport to the next level. The transportation industry called attention to a viable Total Cost of Ownership, a good national and international infrastructure network and preferably manned refueling infrastructure in the start-up phase.

Maartje van der Avert of the Ministry of Infrastructure and Water Management explained the contours of the future subsidy scheme, which will run from 2024. Read more information about this scheme here. In 2024, the budget is 22 million euros, probably more in time. The first call focuses on the logistics sector. After the budget expands, other modalities will come into play. Cooperation in consortia of producers, shippers and carriers together with infra operators is an important prerequisite.

An aftermovie with an impression of this meeting will follow soon.

As a follow-up to this meeting, we will organize smaller in-depth sessions together with the individual manufacturers, to which we will invite interested transporters. Here we want to connect supply and demand from consortia and thus accelerate the production of hydrogen transport vehicles.
Next year there will be another broad meeting to inform and inspire each other.

Hydrogen Challenge 24H2 Challenge

On November 11 and 12, the team of Hydrogen Utrecht, LIFE NEW HYTS and Platform Groene hart werkt! participated in the 24H2 Challenge. Regina Horbach, Bert Strijker, Daniël Bakker and Jolanda Ledoux were in a hydrogen car together for 24 hours. It was a long night with a fun learning experience.

"Daniel are you still sleeping then?" Read the interview with Daniel Bakker about his participation in the H2 Challenge here

See photos from the 24H2 Challenge here.

And click here for the aftermovie with a great impression of the 24H2 Challenge!

Register via www.waterstofchallenge.nl/nl/ in advance for next year: Oct. 6 & 7.

Construction hydrogen fueling station Amersfoort started

Construction of Fountain Fuel energy station in Amersfoort began in October. It will be a hydrogen fueling station with also electric charging points, in industrial park De Wieken. It is expected to be operational in April 2023.

The opening event featured more than 100 attendees, strong substantive conversations on stage and lots of press coverage. Watch below the aftermovie for a great impression of this event and information about Fountain Fuel's plans for even more hydrogen refueling stations.

You can further follow Fountain Fuel on LinkedIn, Twitter and sign up for their newsletter.

Previously, the plans of Fountain Fuel in Amersfoort were featured in this nice video From Hydrogen to Talk.

National Hydrogen Congress

During the Hydrogen Congress on Dec. 15, 2022, in Utrecht, Bert Strijker of the EnergieCollectief Utrechtse Bedrijven (ECUB), Regina Horbach of the Province of Utrecht and Daniël Bakker of KWR Water Research Institute gave a roundtable session on the "Hydrogen in Mobility Covenant Province of Utrecht" and the LIFE NEW HYTS project .

There was a lot of interest in the session. Those present thought it was special that the province is driving this project and taking care of bringing companies, governments and other parties together. They were also interested in what we have done so far to include bringing supply and demand together, lobbying for legislation & subsidies, getting local production of green hydrogen done, and when and how hydrogen-powered transport vehicles will be available.

More information on hydrogen conferencing: https://euroforum.nl/waterstof