FLEET & COMMERCIAL
FLEET & COMMERCIAL
“ GLOBALLY , TWO OF THE BIGGEST MARKET POOLS ARE ZERO EMISSIONS AND AI ”
JAWAD KHURSHEED CEO , HVS SYSTEMS “ What ’ s important to understand is that , unlike the passenger car market , you don ’ t need a fueling station at every corner ,” says Jawad Khursheed , CEO of HVS Systems .
From a fleet perspective , the real demand is for strategies to understand what vehicles are capable of and beyond that , where the necessary stops should be . By working in partnership with Euro Garages ( EG ), the HVS approach is a great example of how hydrogen trucking can be optimised to maximise the best services that they can provide .
Operating along fixed routes means that , between Glasgow and London , only seven fueling stations would be required to operate hydrogen trucks to and from the cities . So for any one who says that infrastructure is a tough challenge for the hydrogen vehicle sector , Khursheed would disagree .
“ You could drive from the north of Scotland and Elgin to the south of Italy and only fill up at EG fueling courts ,” explains Khursheed as he discusses how the network of fueling stations would develop for a hydrogen-powered fleet .
“ We have a strategic investor who has hundreds of HGV-ready fuel courts at its disposable , means that the chicken eggs scenario goes away — in the sense that we would say to EG that we need fueling ports on these locations because of X , Y , Z , and within months , not years , we ' d have a pop-up station ready .”
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