Hiringa Energy orders 1500 hydrogen fuel cell trucks from Hyzon Motors for New Zealand

US developer of fuel cell commercial vehicles, Hyzon Motors, has received a major order from hydrogen specialist Hiringa Energy from New Zealand. The customer is ordering a total of 1,500 fuel cell trucks over the next five years till 2026.

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Hyzon Motors says the first examples are to be put into service as early as the end of 2021. The trucks will be built in a 6×4 configuration, have a sleeper cab option, have a gross vehicle weight (kerb weight plus maximum payload) of 58 tonnes and a range of 680 kilometres. The hydrogen fuel cell trucks for New Zealand will be assembled at Hyzon’s European site in Winschoten in the Dutch province of Groningen.

As part of the agreement, Hiringa will also set up a network of hydrogen filling stations in New Zealand. The network is to grow to eight hydrogen filling stations on the North and South Islands of New Zealand by 2022 and to keep expanding the network to at least 24 stations by 2025 making sure there is coverage for 95% of all heavy vehicle routes throughout New Zealand. Only green hydrogen is to be used. Hyzon speaks of the “ambitious journey to decarbonise New Zealand’s heavy transport sector”, which also involved other leading New Zealand brands.

The New Zealand government recently contributed $20 million towards the establishment of Hiringa’s nationwide refuelling network. The New Zealand government is committed to zero-emission transport. Just this week we reported on another funding round from the New Zealand government for zero-emission transport projects.  In one of these projects, Hyundai, which only recently released its international strategy for fuel cell trucks, will be purchasing and deploying five of its hydrogen fuel cell electric trucks.

“We see New Zealand as an attractive market for the deployment of our hydrogen fuel cell technology,” says Hyzon CEO Craig Knight. “This partnership aims to position New Zealand as a global leader in the adoption of zero-emission heavy vehicle technology. In addition, the deployment of 1,500 fuel cell trucks by 2026 will make a massive contribution to local decarbonisation efforts.”

Andrew Clennett, CEO of Hiringa, adds that they will work together to drive down the cost of the technology and enable New Zealanders to adopt zero-emission heavy-duty transport widely.

Hyzon Motors is currently going from strength to strength. The US company only started operations in March 2020, opened its European headquarters in July, announced an investment of an unknown amount by the energy group Total and other investors in autumn, and announced its IPO a few days ago.

Technical data on the fuel cell trucks built in Europe have not yet been revealed. However, Holthausen Clean Technology is to construct the Hyzon trucks based on DAF’s XF Space Cab tractor unit to produce the trucks in the Netherlands and the USA. Previously published pictures of the Hyzon truck for Europe show the DAF model with a slightly modified front and large Hyzon lettering.

In the USA, Hyzon wants to manufacture the fuel cell drives in its plant in Rochester (New York State). The assembly of its own futuristically designed trucks and buses will then be done by partners.

At the time of its launch, Hyzon Motors already said that it was aiming for global sales of its fuel cell vehicles and had already signed “a number of significant agreements” in the USA, the EU and Australia to support the supply of green hydrogen for the vehicles. At the time, the new manufacturer said it planned to sell 2,000 “heavy-duty” vehicles within three years. The capacity of the US plant in Rochester, New York State, should be increased to up to 10,000 units per year, depending on demand.

Update 04 November 2021

Hiringa Refuelling New Zealand has commenced building the first four green hydrogen refuelling stations for the heavy-duty trucks the company has ordered from Hyzon Motors earlier this year. These will form part of a nationwide refuelling network.

As reported above, Hiringa intends to grow the network to eight hydrogen filling stations on the North and South Islands by 2022 and keep expanding the network to at least 24 stations by 2025, ensuring coverage for 95% of all heavy vehicle routes throughout New Zealand.

hyzonmotors.com, hiringa.co.nz, hyzonmotors.com (both update 04 November ’21)

7 Comments

about „Hiringa Energy orders 1500 hydrogen fuel cell trucks from Hyzon Motors for New Zealand“
Rob
20.02.2021 um 01:10
Any way I/we can invest in this company Hyzon Motors. Is there a stock symbol to look for to invest?
Kylo
12.11.2021 um 12:54
Stock symbol is HYZN
Brandon Swan
27.02.2021 um 22:41
Dcrb is the space meeting with hyzon
Jeremy Philip John Penrice
20.02.2021 um 18:17
But what about the factored cost of the production of Hydrogen in New Zealand are essentially a factor of 3-4 Times the cost of a carbon equivilant.Its unsustainable The argument and feasibility of a pure Electric Danfoss power train would be a better outcome. New Zealand doesnt have enough renewable sources of Energy available for charging on this scale.Unless it can produced Hydrogen directly inside windfarms at night it Will be the Elephant in the room technology.
George Biloni
04.05.2022 um 02:39
The first car produces was not allowed to drive more than 4 km per hour and had to have a person running in front of it calling out Danger, car coming. Note how things have progressed and changed.Hydrogen fuelled transport is a technology on a roll internationally and cant be stopped. The govt has signed to even having planes flying on it. It has also just signed an agreement to be a green hydrogen supplyer to Singapore, Japan, and South Korea.It will get produced irrelevant of public opinion and the technology can only get better and production techniques and efficiencies are already developing fast . At the end of the day a 150kg hydrogen fuel tank providing up to 600km travel producing only water to make more fuel from and not need replacement must be of much better efficiency than being travel handicapped by having to lug around up to 2400 kg of carbon intensive manufactured lithium batteries to have the same distance range and that all needs replacement within 10 years time to achieve the same distance and continued performance.Each fuel methods has its own merits and dissadvantages, but irrelevant of any ones opinion, fossil fuel availability for most future vehicle use is being deliberatly turned off world wide whether we like it or not. For example, what happened to NZ CNG fuel network? It was the best fuel around... except for the polution it generated...
Kylo
12.11.2021 um 12:53
Stock symbol is HYZN
Roger Shore
04.05.2022 um 04:58
Hydrogen fuelled transport is a technology that is on on a roll internationally and can't be stopped.The NZ Government has justy signed an agreement for NZ to be a green hydrogen supplyer to Singapore, Japan, and South Korea. Hiringa Energy will no doubt become part of that supply structure and internationally these trucks will be using this gas.Hydrogen fuel is efficient and provides more time constrained convenience for the nations transport fleet in refuelling time options than electric vehicle refuelling delays, especially for fleet operators.These 1500 hydrogen powered trucks are taking the New Zealand transport industry into the future. Well done.

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