FirstElement Fuel has partnered with Hyundai Motor to fuel and test Hyundai’s XCIENT Fuel Cell Heavy Duty trucks in California.
Under the partnership, FirstElement Fuel aims to leverage its True Zero network of hydrogen refuelling stations to fuel three XCIENT Fuel Cell prototypes at full 700 bar pressure.
The company is also deploying its ‘first-of-its-kind’ high capacity 125kg per hour mobile refueller which was developed in collaboration with Taylor-Wharton and Nikkiso.
Joel Ewanick, Chairman and CEO of FirstElement Fuel, said, “This program has helped FirstElement understand what we need to do to bring high-volume hydrogen refuelling infrastructure for heavy duty fuel cell trucks, and now we’re prepared.
“Our partnership with Hyundai has also given us total confidence that fuel cell technology will eventually meet all the needs of the transport and logistics sector with zero emissions.”
FirstElement Fuel’s Class A licensed drivers are piloting three XCIENT Fuel Cell trucks throughout California, covering 25,000 miles, and FirstElement has performed over 120 hydrogen fills for the XCIENT trucks as part of the program.
FirstElement offers liquid hydrogen instead of gaseous due to it being ‘far more efficient’, enabling the large quantities of hydrogen required to fuel Class 8 Fuel Cell Electric trucks.
Later this year, FirstElement Fuel and Hyundai Motor will launch the world’s largest commercial deployment of Class 8 hydrogen-powered fuel cell trucks in Oakland, California. The project is dubbed, NorCAL ZERO and was jointly founded by the California Air Resources Board (CARB) and is being managed by the Centre for Transportation and the Environment (CTE).
Hyundai announced in December (2022) its hydrogen-powered trucks will enter Israel for the first time under a new deal.
Read more:Hyundai to supply XCIENT hydrogen fuel cell trucks to Israel
In 2020, FirstElement Fuel was the highest scoring applicant in the California Energy Commission (CEC) competitive grant solicitation receiving 45{7bfcd0aebedba9ec56d5615176ab7cebc5409dfb82345290162ba6c44abf8bc8} of the funding, the largest amount a single applicant could win.
This meant over the next five years (2020 to 2025), FirstElement will build somewhere between 41 and 49 new stations in California.
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