Technical Specs of 2021 Mercedes Benz GenH2 Fuel Cell Truck at Reveal Event

Truck manufacturer Daimler Trucks today presented its technology strategy for the electrification of its vehicles, ranging from urban distribution to international long-haul transport, thus reaffirming its commitment to the goals of the Paris Climate Protection Convention. The event focused on the technology for hydrogen-based fuel-cell trucks for the long-haul transport segment. The Mercedes-Benz GenH2 Truck, which today had its world premiere as a concept vehicle, marks the beginning of fuel-cell drive. With the GenH2 Truck, Daimler Trucks is demonstrating for the first time which specific technologies the manufacturer is driving forward at full speed so that heavy-duty fuel-cell trucks can perform flexible and demanding long-distance haulage operations with ranges of up to 1,000 kilometers and more on a single tank of hydrogen. Daimler Trucks plans to begin customer trials of the GenH2 Truck in 2023; series production is to start in the second half of the decade. Thanks to the use of liquid instead of gaseous hydrogen with its higher energy density, the vehicle’s performance is planned to equal that of a comparable conventional diesel truck.

Daimler Trucks today also presented for the first time a preview of a purely battery-powered long-haul truck, the Mercedes-Benz eActros LongHaul, which is designed to cover regular journeys on plannable routes in an energy-efficient manner. Daimler Trucks plans to have the eActros LongHaul ready for series production in 2024. Its range on one battery charge will be approximately 500 kilometers. Additionally, with the Mercedes-Benz eActros for distribution transport, which was already presented in 2018 and has been tested intensively since then by customers in everyday transport operations, Daimler Trucks will start series production of a purely battery-powered heavy-duty truck next year. The range of the series-produced eActros on one battery charge will significantly exceed that of the prototype’s approximately 200 kilometers.

Daimler Trucks is pursuing similar vehicle schedules for the North American and Japanese markets as it is for Europe. By the year 2022, Daimler Trucks’ portfolio in its main sales regions – Europe, the USA and Japan – is to include series-produced vehicles with battery-electric drive. The company also has the ambition to offer only new vehicles that are CO2-neutral in driving operation (“from tank to wheel”) in Europe, North America and Japan by 2039.

As a new worldwide modular platform architecture, the so-called ePowertrain will be the technological basis of all medium- and heavy-duty CO2-neutral, all-electric series-produced trucks from Daimler Trucks – whether powered purely by batteries or by hydrogen-based fuel cells. It will feature high levels of performance, efficiency and durability. With the ePowertrain, Daimler Trucks plans to achieve synergies and economies of scale for all relevant vehicles and markets.

Martin Daum, Chairman of the Board of Management of Daimler Truck AG and Member of the Board of Management of Daimler AG, and Sven Ennerst, Member of the Board of Management of Daimler Truck AG for Development, Procurement and the China Region, presented the technology strategy at STATION-Berlin. The speakers included Andreas Scheuer, Federal Minister of Transport and Digital Infrastructure.

[geezer]

This is the future. Longer range and a lighter truck than the garbage Tesla semi truck that's overloaded with batteries. Just convince all regular fuel/gas stations to also store Hydrogen and you've saved the world.

[relaxationstation]

😍Now you're speaking my language!😍

[kostyuha]

Ну, как бы всё норм, кроме двух моментов:
1. Неизбежные потери топлива в связи с нагревом (и стравливанием в атмосферу) топлива при стоянке машины. То есть при поездках от точки до точки -норм, но стоянка на пол-пути уже как-то вызывает сомнения, а уж парковка на неделю - тем паче.
2. 80 кг водорода на 1000 км пути? То есть 8 кг водорода на сотню? Соляры такой грузовик кушает примерно в четыре раза больше по массе топлива. Несомненно, ДВС имеет крайне низкий КПД, но неуж-то электрогенератор на водородных топливных элементах уже настолько эффективнее?
А так - да, несомненно за электричеством, водородом и метаном будущее.

[KlausPercussion]

Does somebody know who provides the fuel cell stacks?

[GeorgeKafantaris]

Andrew Lund is right, hydrogen trucks “provide technical solutions that other technologies cannot meet in the long run.” So why bother with battery trucks in the interim when we will end up with hydrogen trucks anyway. Why make it a two-step transition when we can make it a one-step transition and go to hydrogen directly. And why keep worrying about hydrogen filling stations. They will come soon enough -- around the same time that hydrogen trucks and hydrogen cars come. Gas filling stations didn’t come overnight either.

[ron]

I really wonder why that lady translates a speech which was also hold in English by the gentleman.