The new Enginius brand is being introduced by the Lower Saxony vehicle manufacturer Faun, which specializes in municipal cars.
Customers all across the world will benefit from the offer, which comprises trucks powered by hydrogen-electric fuel cells. The vehicles are built on Daimler Trucks chassis. The firm aspires to be the European market leader for hydrogen-powered vehicles on short and medium-haul routes by 2030.
Faun has previously demonstrated that hydrogen is perfectly suited to powering big vehicles with its municipal vehicles. “Our cars are on the road where families live and children play.” As a result, it is critical that we reduce emissions from our automobiles. “Now we’re taking it a step further and making our know-how available to everyone who is interested in noiseless, emission-free, clean, and sustainable commodities and freight transportation,” says Patrick Hermanspann, CEO of Faun.
All economic sectors relied heavily on transportation and logistics. As a result, climate-neutral transportation powered by renewable energies is an essential step toward a circular economy. “This is precisely what our new Enginius brand stands for,” explains Johannes F. Kirchhoff, Managing Partner of the Kirchhoff Group, which includes Faun.
Two Daimler Trucks chassis will be utilized under the new brand and will be fitted with alternative driving technologies in Bremen’s manufacturing halls. Fuel cells turn hydrogen from the high-pressure tanks into energy, which powers an electric motor and charges the buffer batteries on board. Depending on the equipment, the cars can have a range of up to 400 kilometers and a payload equivalent to that of a diesel vehicle, according to Enginius. It takes less than 15 minutes to fill the hydrogen tanks.
Enginius provides the three-axle “Bluepower” as a carrier vehicle for garbage collection or sweeper attachments, based on the Econic chassis from Daimler Trucks. The flexible “Citypower” (article picture) for goods transport will be released in 2023, based on the two-axle Atego. “We think Citypower has a lot of promise because of its adaptability and flexibility,” Hermanspann explains. This also implies that the Bremen plant’s manufacturing capacity will be steadily increased.
