In the UK, the UK Government said that airports and supermarket deliveries could become greener and more efficient thanks to a £8 million government competition to support hydrogen-powered transport in the North East region.
The Transport Secretary has announced two winning projects of the second phase of the competition, encouraging more businesses and innovators to develop new technology that uses hydrogen fuel to accelerate transport decarbonization.
One project led by ULEMCo, receiving a share of the funding, will develop hydrogen-powered airport ground-based support vehicles, such as tow trucks for aircrafts and sweepers to clean runways. This will be based at Teesside international airport, which will help the airport reach its goal of being net zero by 2030.
Another of the winning projects led by Element 2 aims to create new hydrogen refueling stations. This funding will create four new publicly accessible hydrogen refueling stations, increasing the number of refueling stations in the UK by 50%. These will be used to fuel a range of vehicles, from airside vehicles to heavy goods vehicles (HGVs), including supermarket delivery trucks.
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