Sinotruck and Weichai Power Launched China’s first hydrogen combustion heavy duty truck

Sinotruck and Weichai Power launched China’s first hydrogen combustion heavy duty truck on June 15th. This truck has a 13L hydrogen combustion engine developed by Weichai Power.

Image: Weichai’s hydrogen combustion engine

Weichai Power is a vanguard of China’s hydrogen industry in transportation sector. Weichai is the largest heavy duty truck ICE producer in China and it formed a joint venture with Bullard in 2018 to develop hydrogen fuel cell engine. While Weichai has also been developing its proprietary hydrogen combustion engine since 2018.

This truck debut with a number of proprietary technologies, including precise hydrogen injection control technology to achieve flexible and accurate supply of hydrogen fuel, which can fully meet the requirements of variable working conditions.

Image: Sinotruck’s first hydrogen combustion HDT

Sinotruck and Weichai Power have a plan to test their hydrogen HDT for commercial operation in several fields, such as long distance transportation through highway and domestic logistic in a port area. By far, Shandong province (where Sinotruck and Weichai’s headquarters located) have established basic hydrogen infrastructure for Jinan-Qingdao highway and Qingdao port.

Image: The first hydrogen refilling station at Jinan-Qingdao highway