Recently, Mercedes-Benz has made it clear that it sees hydrogen and fuel cells as the basis for making future heavy long-distance transport CO2-neutral.
The Mercedes-Benz GenH2, which has been rolling on the company's test tracks since the end of April, is a further development of the concept truck that was shown last year.
The goal is a truck with a total weight of 40 tonnes and a range of at least 100 km on a hydrogen tank (80 kg). Mercedes-Benz plans to use liquid hydrogen as it provides lighter tanks and takes up less space but requires extremely low temperatures. Technical solutions for this will be presented later this year, therefore the car is still powered by hydrogen in gaseous form.
The car also gets a battery that is continuously charged by the fuel cell and which can provide 500 extra horsepower if needed.
Even though the Mercedes-Benz GenH2 is related to the Actros truck, all technology used is completely new. This means, for example, that fluctuations will appear in new ways and on new parts of the car. This implies that it must support as many tests as if it were a new hydrogen fuel cell truck model.
