{"id":3031,"date":"2020-12-18T17:25:24","date_gmt":"2020-12-18T17:25:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cantruck.ca\/nacfe-releases-fuel-cell-truck-guidance\/"},"modified":"2025-01-10T16:44:32","modified_gmt":"2025-01-10T16:44:32","slug":"nacfe-releases-fuel-cell-truck-guidance","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cantruck.ca\/fr\/nacfe-releases-fuel-cell-truck-guidance\/","title":{"rendered":"NACFE Releases Fuel Cell Truck Guidance"},"content":{"rendered":"

The North American Council for Freight Efficiency (NACFE) has\u00a0released an in-depth guidance titled \u00ab\u00a0Making Sense of Hydrogen Fuel Cell Tractors,\u00a0<\/a>which reportedly breaks down the challenges, such as developing infrastructure, and enticing benefits, like the extended range, of hydrogen fuel cell technology in the transportation sector.<\/p>\n

As Fleet Owner reports:<\/p>\n

The findings are available in an 11-page executive summary for a macro view, while fleets and stakeholders further along in their zero-emission journey can develop a more granular strategy through the full 143-page report, which includes 235 references and 102 figures to help distill the cascades of data flowing throughout the study.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt could have been 10 times as much if we wanted to include everything,\u201d confessed Mike Roeth, NACFE executive director, whose organization had previously released guidance and confidence reports on pure battery-electric trucks, tires, aerodynamics, and autonomous vehicles.<\/p>\n

The authors, which included members of NACFE and the Rocky Mountain Institute, began the project with a healthy dose of skepticism on how commercial vehicles could leverage hydrogen fuel cells to eliminate emissions while still turning a profit. Key advantages include hydrogen fuel cell electric vehicles\u2019 extended range over direct battery-electric vehicles, as well as the near-unlimited supply of its fuel source \u2014 hydrogen.\u00a0\u00a0By the end, they found the advantages afforded by the powertrain will be worth the challenges ahead as the technology attempts to reach maturation. NACFE projects that will happen sometime in the 2030s.<\/p>\n

Getting to that point will be no easy task, despite several decades of research and understanding into hydrogen propulsion.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe costs of\u00a0hydrogen, vehicles,\u00a0and hydrogen\u00a0production all\u00a0must come down\u00a0significantly to make\u00a0hydrogen economically competitive\u00a0with alternatives,\u201d Roeth said. The report noted \u201can\u00a0eight-fold reduction in hydrogen is possible\u201d if enough dominoes fall the right way.<\/p>\n

Here are some of NACFE\u2019s final conclusions:<\/p>\n