GM Readies Test Fleet Of Heavy Pickups Powered By Green Hydrogen

A fleet of GM's medium-duty Chevrolet Suburban pickups powered by hydrogen will be deployed with the Southern Company later this year.GENERAL MOTORS

GM Readies Test Fleet Of Heavy Pickups Powered By Green Hydrogen

The jumbo-sized Chevrolet Silverado trucks will be designed to get 300 miles per fueling and also serve as mobile power generators.

Alan Ohnsman | Forbes | Mar 5, 2024

General Motors has experimented with hydrogen fuel cells for decades but doesn’t yet use them in vehicles it sells. That may change as the largest U.S. automaker prepares to test medium-duty pickups fueled by carbon-free green hydrogen, deploying them as work trucks for a power company.

GM’s HYDROTEC unit said pickups based on its 2024 Chevrolet Silverado 5500 model equipped with its fuel cell system will be used for commercial applications later this year by Atlanta-based Southern Company, one of the country’s largest utilities. They’ll be designed to get over 300 miles per fueling and also serve as a remote electric power system. They’ll refuel at a station developed with the utility company and Nel, a Norwegian maker of electrolyzers, where hydrogen will be generated from a dedicated renewable power system...

...The high-powered fuel cell system in the trucks “can produce more than 300 kilowatts of peak power” and serve as a mobile generator to “power job sites or bring charging to EVs in areas where traditional charging is not available,” Jacob Lozier, HYDROTEC’s program manager, told reporters. “It has enough power and energy to provide power for up to 250 American homes” for a day...

...GM’s new pickup project for HYDROTEC follows recent plans to supply fuel cells to Autocar Industries for cement mixers and other specialized commercial vehicles and to Komatsu for a hydrogen-powered mining truck. It also provides fuel cell technology to truckmaker Navistar and Wabtec, which builds freight and transit locomotives...more
https://www.forbes.com/sites/alanohnsman/2024/03/05/gm-readies-test-fleet-of-heavy-pickups-powered-by-green-hydrogen/

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