Gebrüder Weiss is successfully testing its hydrogen-powered truck in Hungary

By: Trademagazin Date: 2023. 06. 22. 11:31

Gebrüder Weiss Kft. is the first in Hungary to test a hydrogen-powered truck for carrying out transport tasks. Bálint Varga, the managing director of Gebrüder Weiss Kft., announced that the Hyundai XCIENT type truck, with the cooperation of Linde Gáz Magyarország Zrt., will now deliver the shipments of GW customers CO2-free. The test run is part of the company’s committed sustainability policy, which aims to reduce emissions related to operation to zero.

Bálint Varga presented the vehicle with a payload capacity of 17 tons and a range of 400 kilometers at a press conference. As he said, Gebrüder Weiss is one of the first in the world to use a green hydrogen powered truck for logistics tasks, the vehicle has been operating successfully in Switzerland for two years. The experience is excellent: the truck with a total weight of 36 tons covers 70,000 kilometers per year in the course of delivering goods, and even with this one vehicle, it rids the environment of 80 tons of carbon dioxide per year.

Ákos Hegedüs, CEO of LINDE GÁZ Magyarország Zrt., presented the current possibilities of refueling hydrogen fuel in Hungary and the plans related to the domestic production of green hydrogen at a press conference held at the company’s site in Budapest. “We are proud that LINDE is the first and only one in Hungary to enable the refueling of cars and commercial vehicles with carbon-neutral hydrogen, and is also confident that buses and trains will soon be supplied with hydrogen at several locations, in a similar way to that in several European countries.”

The importance of the hydrogen filling infrastructure is well illustrated by the complicated route planning – touching Innsbruck (AT), Erlangen (DE), Prague (CZ) and Vienna (AT) to Budapest – that the hydrogen-powered truck had to travel from Switzerland to Hungary due to the lack of available filling stations.

Bálint Varga concluded by stating that GW applies the green technologies already available, including electric, LNG and CNG propulsion, in the earliest stages of technology. The company’s commitment to green logistics is demonstrated by the fact that it has recently started delivering home delivery business with its own emission-free vehicles in the downtown areas of Budapest, Győr, Zalaegerszeg, Pécs and Szeged, and has put into service the first ten vehicles of the electric vehicle fleet required for this, which will be added in the second half of the year. ten vans complement it. The next stage of the development is the min. Electric vehicles with a range of 250-300 km will be procured, which would make Miskolc, Debrecen, and Nyíregyháza serviceable.