Daimler Truck and Linde Engineering have reached an important infrastructure breakthrough on the path toward decarbonizing transportation with hydrogen.
Over the past few years, engineers from both companies have jointly developed sLH2, a new process for handling subcooled liquid hydrogen. Compared with gaseous hydrogen, this new approach allows for a higher storage density, a greater range, faster refueling, lower costs and superior energy efficiency. Refueling takes around 10 to 15 minutes for a 40-ton heavy-duty truck carrying 80 kg of liquid hydrogen for a range of 1,000 kilometers and more.
At the same time, the sLH2 technology lowers the required investment for a hydrogen refueling station by a factor of two to three, and operational costs are five to six times lower. Liquid hydrogen can now be supplied reliably throughout Europe.
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