A battery that delivers similar range would weigh several tonnes, reducing the amount of freight that can be carried. And it would currently take several hours to recharge, significant downtime for fleet operators.
Macky Arthur, the prototype's test driver, told Sky News:"You don't have the roar of a diesel vehicle, you don't have the fumes of a diesel vehicle.But hydrogen still has problems as a power source. Making it from green electricity is currently expensive and far less energy efficient than plugging a battery into a charging point.
The Centre for Sustainable Road Freight has calculated that switching all diesel trucks to batteries would need 10.6 GW of electricity - roughly the output of 900 large offshore wind turbines. But a switch to hydrogen would need 35.6GW of electricity to make it - requiring more than three times as many turbines.
Advocates of hydrogen insist that the technology will improve, allowing the gas to be made cheaply at scale.This content is provided by, which may be using cookies and other technologies. To show you this content, we need your permission to use cookies. You can use the buttons below to amend your preferences to enablecookies or to allow those cookies just once.
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