The Clean Hydrogen and Road Transport Project (CH2aRT) brings together Air Products, Schenk Tanktransport, and TNO to create hydrogen vehicles and a public hydrogen refueling station.
The project focuses on hydrogen in heavy-duty road transport and is funded by the Dutch Ministry of Infrastructure and Water Management’s DKTI transport plan (Demonstration Scheme for Climate Technologies and Innovations in Transport).
In collaboration with the Port of Rotterdam, this project will build the Netherlands’ largest hydrogen refueling station, first feeding three zero-emission trucks from Air Products, Schenk Tanktransport, and other early hydrogen adopters in the Rotterdam port region. Air Products will provide and run the Botlek refueling station, as well as deliver green hydrogen in an efficient and safe manner, while Schenk Tanktransport will use the vehicles for its everyday logistical operations. TNO will keep track of the whole experiment and use what it learns for the development and deployment of hydrogen in heavy-duty vehicles.
The DKTI transportation subsidy is intended to help fund projects that promote sustainable transportation. The award was established to help speed up these long-term transportation technologies.
The initiative also helps HyTrucks, an international coalition of diverse parties, achieve its goal of deploying hydrogen in heavy road transport on a wide scale by 2025, with 1,000 hydrogen-powered trucks in the Rotterdam, North Rhine-Westphalia, and Antwerp triangles. Not just Air Products, but also port firms, transportation corporations, gasoline station owners, and vehicle manufacturers are among the partners collaborating under a memorandum of understanding.
