Augsburg-based Quantron has unveiled a new fuel cell truck for the US market with a range of up to 850 miles (1,360 kilometres) designed for heavy-duty and long-haul applications.
The US Class 8 H2 truck was unveiled at the Advanced Clean Transportation Expo in Anaheim, California. In the announcement, the new model is simply called the “Quantron Class 8 US Truck”. As is the rule at Quantron, this is not a completely self-developed vehicle, but a conversion to a fuel cell drive based on an existing chassis.
Quantron does not yet mention technical data on the fuel cell, buffer battery or electric motor in the announcement. Instead, the focus is on tank capacity and range. Accordingly, the concept vehicle unveiled in Anaheim has an 80-kilogram hydrogen tank. “At the start of production, Quantron expects the heavy-duty Class 8 truck to have a range of about 750 to 850 miles with a tank capacity of 100 kg of hydrogen,” the release says. This amount should be able to be refuelled in ten to 15 minutes, the manufacturer said.
T compare, the heavy H2 truck that Quantron presented for Europe last autumn has a capacity of 54 kilograms of hydrogen. This is supposed to allow a range of up to 700 kilometres in the standard variant, while the aero variant presented at the end of April is supposed to reach “at least” 700 kilometres.
