BERLIN, May 20 (Reuters) - Daimler Truck and Shell New
Energies said on Thursday they have signed an agreement under
which Shell commits to setting up hydrogen-refuelling stations
for heavy-duty trucks that Daimler Truck will sell to its
customers.
Under the agreement, Shell will from 2024 launch heavy-duty
hydrogen-refuelling stations between the green hydrogen
production hubs at the Port of Rotterdam in the Netherlands and
in Cologne and Hamburg in Germany.
Daimler Truck meanwhile aims to start delivering heavy-duty
hydrogen trucks to customers in 2025.
"The plan aims to continuously expand the hydrogen powered
freight corridor, which will cover 1,200 kms by 2025, in order
to deliver 150 hydrogen refuelling stations and around 5,000
Mercedes-Benz heavy-duty fuel cell trucks by 2030," the two
companies said in a joint statement.
(Reporting by Maria Sheahan, editing by Emma Thomasson)
