The Lauterach-based company has summarised one year of running its very-first hydrogen truck, used for daily short-distance transportation in Switzerland.
The 36-tonne-truck, the Hyundai XCIENT Fuel Cell model, made 70,000 km, saving some 80t of CO2 emissions.
With 7.5 kg/100 km, hydrogen consumption was lower than that specified by the truck maker.
The average daily range was 430 km, allowing the 350 kW electric motor truck to operate day-round on a single fuelling (32 kg of tank capacity, refilled in about 12 minutes).
Gebrüder Weiss' hydrogen truck had to pay only one workshop visit for a technical inspection.
The company plans to deploy other hydrogen trucks in Austria and southern Germany.
"The purchase was a worthwhile investment in resource-saving road freight transport. The truck is well received by the drivers and, above all, by the customers," Peter Waldenberger, Head of Quality and Environmental Management, Gebrüder Weiss.
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