Aramco Sponsors World’s 1st Hydrogen-Powered Truck

Under the auspices of Saudi Aramco, the World first ever Hydrogen-powered truck, developed by the French Gossen, as it participates in the Dakar Rally, in its 3rd Saudi edition for the Year 2022, to highlight the significance of developing environment-friendly transportation technologies, with lower emissions.

 The two companies have agreed to share the Center for Advanced Innovations (Lab7) in the efforts of Gossen to manufacture hydrogen-powered vehicles, and to develop an autonomous or remote-controlled hydrogen-powered racing truck.

It is produced by Saudi Aramco along with the current products produced by the French company, with the aim of trying to reduce the weight, energy consumption and costs of these vehicles.

Such a step falls in line with the framework of the company’s attempt to explore hydrogen and other energy solutions, with a lower percentage of carbon.

The truck has many technical features that make it the world’s first hydrogen truck to combine technology and power, built with high-quality components to work in harsh environments, including: two 300 kW electric motors each, 380 kW fuel cells and 82 kWh batterie, 80 kg of hydrogen, a high-performance cooling system and the truck has a lightweight chassis designed specifically for the performance and integration of hydrogen, a maximum speed of 140 km per hour according to regulations, and it takes 20 minutes to recharge with a specific hydrogen cooling station, and a travel of 250 km in race conditions.

It is noteworthy that with the development of fuel production technologies, hydrogen fuel can play a greater role in trying to reduce carbon emissions, in the transportation sector, faster, in addition to provide a longer driving range.

Since 2019, Saudi Aramco has been testing a group of hydrogen-powered vehicles, after the opening of the first station for vehicles fueling in the Kingdom, which can be used in the transportation sector.

Along with the application of carbon capture, use and storage technology, can contribute to efforts to reduce carbon dioxide emissions.

The plant has, successfully, managed to supply high-purity compressed hydrogen fuel to an initial batch of 6-Toyota Mirai hydrogen fuel cell electric vehicles.