Gruber Logistics pioneer of the introduction of truck to hydrogen on the European roads



After the agreement which announced last September between the Hyundai Motor Company South Korean and the Helvetian H2 Energy for the introduction on the Swiss market of thousand trucks constituents to cells to fuel in period 2019-2023, the Italian Gruber Logistics, society with center to Hour (Bolzano), have announced that it will be the first company in Europe to introduce in own fleet international trucks to hydrogen for transport being had reserved, to little weeks of distance from its official presentation on the market American, the first truck to hydrogen from 40 for transport international tons.

The sudtirolese logistic company has remembered that the vehicles to hydrogen do not emit some type of injurious emissions or co2, but only steam; they are moreover most silent and particularly apt for users that they need of elevated power and autonomy, as for example heavy means. Moreover, compared to the vehicles constituents, those to hydrogen they offer advanced environmental benefits: in fact, since they reach energy from the fuel cells, annul the problems totally legacies to the production and digestion of the batteries, that they are instead indispensable for the trucks constituents.

The vehicle reserved by Gruber Logistics is Nikola 3 of the American Nikola Motor Company. "As company of transports family run with center in a territory from the great naturalistic value as that resident of Upper Adige - Martin Gruber has explained, managing director Gruber Logistics - we strain ourselves from always of it stuffed promoters of more sustainable mobility and attempts to the atmosphere. 2019 we have been about to a particularly profitable year from this point of view: in fact we have widened our fleet with the purchase of engines LNG (natural gas which liquified) and planned the complete average substitution of our park. We for a long time waited for the arrival of a truck to hydrogen on the European market, and in the vehicle which set up by Nikola Motor we have finally found the answer to our requirements. We are in contact with the house manufacturer and we will participate to the official event of presentation that will hold between little weeks in Arizona. In that occasion we will deepen our proposal of stuffed promoters of a project pilot to European level in order to diffuse I in transport use it of the hydrogen".