Engineering consultancy, Ricardo plc, and hydrogen power technologies manufacturer, AFC Energy plc, have signed a collaboration agreement aimed at identifying new and innovative alternative fuel solutions.

The Lion Electric Company, manufacturer of all-electric medium and heavy-duty urban vehicles, has been successful in using its electric school buses to supply electricity back to the grid, as part of the company’s vehicle-to-grid (V2G) pilot deployment in White Plains.

Daimler Trucks AG, Iveco SpA and the Volvo Group have committed to work alongside Austrian oil company, OMV and Dutch firm, Shell New Energies NL BV under a new EU initiative called H2Accelerate, to help create conditions for mass-market roll-out of hydrogen trucks in Europe.

Cummins Inc has agreed to form a joint venture with Dutch startup, NPROXX bv, a specialist in hydrogen storage and transportation, for hydrogen storage tanks with facilities in The Netherlands and Germany.

Private investor energy producer companies are leading the way towards reducing carbon emissions and in clean energy transformation, said Becky Knox of the Edison Electric Institute (EEIs) at the Busworld Academy, held in Omaha, Nebraska, USA in association with ABA Marketplace (January 2020).

While hydrogen still has less of a market share than many other alternative fuels, it has some compelling advantages as a fuel: It offers zero emissions, especially for heavy-duty vehicles that require fast fill times and a lot of on board energy storage, stated Erik Bigelow, Center for Transportation and the Environment.

Alliance Ventures, the strategic venture capital arm of the Renault-Nissan-Mitsubishi consortium, has made an investment in PowerShare, an electric vehicle (EV) charging platform start-up company based in China.