Hyzon Motors welcomed the announcement by the New South Wales, Victorian and Queensland governments of a tri-state collaboration commitment on a renewable hydrogen refuelling network for heavy transport and logistics along Australia’s eastern seaboard.
The governments of NSW, Victoria and Queensland signed a Memorandum of Understanding for the hydrogen refuelling corridors, starting with the Hume Highway, the Pacific Highway, and the Newell Highway.
The refuelling network will start with $20 million support from the NSW and Victorian governments to build at least four renewable hydrogen refuelling stations between Sydney and Melbourne. The funding will also provide grants for the country’s first long-haul hydrogen trucks.
Taking part in today’s announcement in western Sydney, Hyzon ANZ Managing Director, John Edgley, applauded the ‘hydrogen highways’ announcement calling it a real ‘game changer’ for the hydrogen mobility sector and Australia’s decarbonisation journey.
“Hydrogen fuel cell electric vehicles will play a vital role in the decarbonisation of the transport sector and be a key component of Australia’s fuel security strategy for the future,” Mr Edgley said.
“Hydrogen availability for heavy duty vehicle refuelling is the key missing infrastructure link for our industry.
“Today’s announcement will provide confidence to Australia’s freight and logistics sector to transition their fleets to hydrogen fuel cell electric vehicles.
“We need to continue to see bold investment choices by industry to take on fleet transition supported and rewarded by governments, as an enabler, as a customer, and often as our customer’s customer.
“This announcement will only strengthen the resolve of Australian fleet operators to take the next step in the energy transition journey and Hyzon Motors together with our key partners, stand ready to work with operators to provide complete turnkey solutions.”
Hyzon, a global supplier of zero-emissions hydrogen fuel cell powered commercial vehicles, announced early this year, the development of Australia’s first purpose-built assembly plant in Melbourne to manufacture hydrogen-powered commercial vehicles with future capacity to produce over 1000 vehicles per annum in turn generating over a 100 Australian jobs.
Hyzon has already hit the ground running in the region, with scheduled 2022 deliveries including coaches to Fortescue Future Industries in Western Australia, prime movers to Coregas in NSW, road train prime movers to Ark Energy in Queensland and metropolitan garbage trucks developed jointly with Superior Pak.
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