PowerCell Sweden is to participate in European Union project, REVIVE (Refuse Vehicle Innovation and Validation), which will develop and operate a refuse truck with fuel cells for Renova.
Renova’s end customer, the City of Gothenburg, wants to increase testing of fuel cell powered refuse lorries.
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The truck and its operation will be partly funded by REVIVE, which has an objective to accelerate the development of hydrogen fuelled refuse trucks in Europe.
PowerCell has previously participated in a joint project with Renova, Scania, truck body manufacturer, JOAB and the Royal Institute of Technology, to develop a fuel cell electric refuse truck which uses a fuel cell to power an on-board electric motor and refuse compactor. That project was partly funded by the Swedish Energy Agency.
Hydrogen fuel cell trucks have a comparable driving range, refuelling time and payload capacity to diesel-powered trucks, while producing less noise and emitting only water vapour.
PowerCell and Renova have recently been approved as project partners in REVIVE, which will partly fund the fuel cell integration and operation of the new refuse truck. The project has received funding from the Fuel Cells and Hydrogen 2 Joint Undertaking.
The Joint Undertaking receives support from the European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme, Hydrogen Europe and Hydrogen Europe Research.
The project spans four years and supports the introduction of fuel cell refuse lorries in several cities across Europe.
Refuse trucks operate on fixed routes and return to their starting point at the end of each shift, which eliminates the requirement for an extensive network of hydrogen filling stations and makes the vehicles suitable for testing fuel cell technology.
REVIVE represents the second fuel cell powered refuse truck in the Renova vehicle fleet.
“We are strong believers in electric refuse trucks using fuel cells and hydrogen, which have obvious benefits when it comes to driving range and payload capacity, two decisive factors for extensive electrification to happen,” said Renova head of development, Hans Zackrisson.
