Nikola joins consortium to develop hydrogen fuelling apparatus standard for heavy duty vehicles
By Jim Gibbins - 1st May 2019
USA - In February this year, a number of leading brands involved in the supply of hydrogen and in fuel cell electric vehicle manufacture - namely Air Liquide, Hyundai, NEL, Nikola Motor, Shell and Toyota - signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) for hydrogen fuelling components, for the purpose of testing state of the art heavy duty (HD) hydrogen fuelling hardware to assist in standardization and speed to market of fuel cell electric trucks.
Nikola announced that this cross-industry group of vehicle and infrastructure companies had signed an MOU with the purpose to test pre-commercial 70MPa (Mega pascal / 700bar) hydrogen heavy-duty vehicle high flow fuelling hardware for future Class 8 (40 ton) trucks. Nikola stated the industry group has created specifications for the fuelling nozzle, vehicle receptacle, dispenser hose and breakaway device components for this HD application.
