Electric Delivery Trucks Will Get More Efficient With New Hydrogen Fuel Cell
The number of electric vehicles on the roads today has risen incredibly in the past 5 years, and will continue to increase for quite some time. But, it’s not just electric cars that we are seeing more of.
The number of electric vehicles on the roads today has risen incredibly in the past 5 years, and will continue to increase for quite some time. But, it’s not just electric cars that we are seeing more of. We are also seeing the same technology being applied to forklift trucks and delivery trucks. Now, fuel cell manufacturer, Plug Power, are looking to make electric delivery trucks even more efficient by fitting them with new hydrogen fuel cells.
Hydrogen fuel celled vehicles are still not that commonly used at the moment, but the U.S. Department of Energy Alternative Fuels Data Center predicts that by the end of the year the number of hydrogen fuel stations will rise to at least 50, making it a more attractive form of fuel. Plug Power is looking to increase that awareness even more and as well as continue to produce forklift trucks with hydrogen fuel cells they will start applying this technology to delivery vehicles also.
Hydrogen fuel-celled vehicles would be perfect for delivery firms or other companies that have vehicles out in the day and then return to base after their shift. Plug and Power have been working alongside both FedEx and the DOE in a $3 million research project in an attempt to try and triple the range of electric vehicles by using hydrogen fuel cell technology. But, until more hydrogen fuelling stations are introduced, firms may have to ‘fill up’ at their base location.
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Rachel Kowalski
Rachel Kowalski is the Cybersecurity Analyst at TrendinTech, where she covers vulnerabilities, ransomware, supply chain attacks, nation-state operations and the security rules shaping organizations in the United States and Europe. Before moving into journalism she worked as a threat intelligence analyst at a security vendor and later reported for CyberScoop and the security desk at Wired, covering the SolarWinds compromise and the ransomware wave that hit hospitals and pipelines. Rachel holds a Master of Science in Cybersecurity from the Georgia Institute of Technology and attends Black Hat and DEF CON in Las Vegas each year, where she follows research from the security community. She writes to make risks and countermeasures understandable to people who are not specialists.
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