Author: Oliver Grant
Oliver Grant
Oliver Grant reports on hydrogen and fuel cell technology in transportation for EVMagz.com, focusing on hydrogen-powered trucks, buses, trains, and emerging applications in aviation and maritime mobility. With a background in clean transport systems and energy reporting, he analyzes how fueling infrastructure, vehicle platforms, and government policy are shaping the future of hydrogen mobility. Outside of work, Oliver enjoys urban cycling, transit system mapping, and documenting next-generation public transport designs.
Germany’s limited and often unreliable hydrogen refuelling infrastructure remains a major obstacle for logistics companies seeking to deploy fuel cell trucks, prompting a new research initiative aimed at improving transparency, planning and utilisation of existing stations. The Chair of Production Engineering of E-Mobility Components (PEM) at RWTH Aachen University is leading the “HyConnect” project, which is developing a digital platform designed to support the efficient use of hydrogen refuelling infrastructure. The project brings together refuelling station operator H2 Mobility, hydrogen producer and logistics provider H2 Green Power & Logistics, logistics software company Mansio and the Digital Supply Chain research group…
Researchers at the Fritz Haber Institute of the Max Planck Society in Berlin have gained new insights into how catalysts function inside hydrogen fuel cells, findings that could help guide future improvements in efficiency, durability and material use in the technology. Unlike catalysts in internal combustion engines, which are used to reduce harmful exhaust emissions, fuel cell catalysts play a direct role in generating electricity. In hydrogen fuel cells, hydrogen is not burned but electrochemically converted into electrical power. Catalysts accelerate the otherwise slow reactions at the anode, where hydrogen is split into protons and electrons, and at the cathode,…
Hyundai Motor Group said it has secured an order for 224 hydrogen fuel-cell buses from the state-owned Guangzhou Public Transport Group, describing it as the largest single order for hydrogen buses in China to date. The buses will be supplied by HTWO Guangzhou, Hyundai’s China-based hydrogen unit, in partnership with local commercial vehicle maker Kaiwo Group. The two companies will jointly deliver the vehicles, which will form about half of Guangzhou Public Transport Group’s broader procurement of roughly 450 hydrogen buses under the tender. Financial terms were not disclosed. See also: Hyundai Ramps Up Hydrogen Bus Production in South Korea…