Daimler Truck brings NextGenH2 to IAA as hydrogen pact forms

HANOVER, Germany — Two of Europe’s largest truck makers say the battery-electric rollout got ahead of the chargers needed to run it. Eight companies in a press conference at IAA Transportation on Tuesday said hydrogen would not repeat the same mistake, with the fuel, the stations and the trucks arriving together. Daimler Truck, Volvo Group, Toyota Motor Corp. , Bosch, Air Liquide, TotalEnergies, TEAL Mobility and MB Energy announced a joint effort to make hydrogen trucking commercially viable in Europe by 2030, with Germany as the template and a request that the European Commission and other national governments copy it. Daimler Truck brought its Mercedes-Benz NextGenH2 Truck to the show floor at the same event.