2022: this is the date set by Air Liquid, the French company that produces the gases used in industrial plants, for the inauguration of the station of high pressure hydrogen refueling (700 bar, 1 ton of product deliverable every day), which involved for the first time trucks, buses and commercial vehicles.
The project, called HyAMMED (Hydrogène à Aix-Marseille pour une Mobilité Écologique et Durable), will be managed by many protagonists of international trade: from Carrefour to Monoprix, up to Coca Cola European Partner. A shared challenge that will see the initial use of eight 44-ton trucks with a maximum range of 800km, for the moment, specially built for the occasion. The station will deliver about twenty low-carbon hydrogen supplies per day and will be located in For-sur-Mer, in the Provence-Alpes-Côte d’Azur region of France.
The HyAMMED project is included in the H2Haul (Hydrogen fuel cell trucks for heavy-duty, zero emission logistics) program, dedicated to the use of hydrogen vehicles within the category of heavier vehicles. The aim of the project is to make the transport sector cleaner and reduce CO2 emissions, especially on long distance journeys, so that even large distributors are encouraged to take a detour towards green transport.
The french region involved is funding the project with the Fuel Cells and Hydrogen Joint Undertaking, aso known as Europe FCH JU, a public-private partnership on which France relies for its deployment plan for the use of hydrogen within the transport network.
