Mercedes-Benz Actros Truck sLH2 Liquid Hydrogen Refueling Tech Preview. First public sLH2 station was inaugurated in Wörth am Rhein, Germany, will also be used by selected logistics customers for initial customer trials with Mercedes-Benz GenH2 Truck
by chopchopped
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The first 3 minutes have the actual pumping technology. 450 kg/h at 73K temperature. Very well designed nozzle head that has evacuation. The fuel station alone seems to be powered by fuel cells (in my opinion) and has the typical high quality design of Linde engineering and manufacture.
The handling is just good. 12 minutes for the full tank if you’re in a hurry. No extra precautions of any special antistatic cables.
*Only downside is the sound of the inverter drive of the truck, not classy at all.*
When I read the submissions of this user, it looks like hydrogen vehicles are about to dominate. But then I look at the sales and see that hydrogen vehicles are stagnating and sometimes even declining. That’s not what you’d expect from an emerging technology.
Finally I did some mathematics and found that hydrogen vehicles will always be expensive to run, and that’s ignoring the non-existent infrastructure and the short lifespan of hydrogen tanks. What’s the point if even the best case scenario is worse than what we already have?