Coming in 2025: The Kenworth T680 FCEV - The World's Best Green Truck

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Kenworth’s FCEV combines Toyota’s hydrogen fuel cell stack with the T680

Commercial Carrier Journal Staff | Aug 9, 2023

Hitting the market in 2025, the recently announced Kenworth T680 FCEV is the culmination of seven years that Kenworth has been collaborating with Toyota on prototype vehicles.

It combines Toyota's second generation hydrogen fuel cell stack with the T680 Next Gen. The T680 FCEV is a Class 8 tractor rated up to 82,000 pounds and stores 60 kilograms of hydrogen on board that powers a 310 kilowatt motor and it's 415 horsepower gives you all the power you need to do your regional or long haul driving. The range is 450 miles and can refuel it in 20 to 30 minutes.

In this video
00:00 Kenworth T680 FCEV

00:43 Toyota hydrogen fuel cell

01:13 Range and refuel time

01:55 Infrastructure for hydrogen fuel cell

02:24 Incentive programs

Transcript here

https://www.ccjdigital.com/alternative-power/hydrogen-fuel-cell/video/15543969/kenworths-hydrogen-colab-with-toyota

Toyota hydrogen fuel cell semi-truck vs. Diesel engine truck acceleration test

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1. Interesting...

I want to look at it more closely so I'll bookmark it for now. Thanks for posting. I've owned a few Kenworths back in the day, I want to see what this generation is all about.

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2. It's fossil fueled and hardly green.

More than 98% of the world's hydrogen is made, with significant exergy destruction, from dangerous fossil fuels.

The energy value of hydrogen is less than 1/2 that of the fossil fuels used to make it, but overwhelmingly, hydrogen is not used for fuel purposes despite all the Potemkin marketing of these destructive devices. It's chief use is as a synthetic intermediate, which is why energy is wasted to make it.

The effort to rebrand fossil fuels as "green" by wasting energy to make hydrogen is a very dishonest marketing ploy by fossil fuel sales people and salesbots.

Hydrogen is not "green" and saying it is a lie.

A Giant Climate Lie: When they're selling hydrogen, what they're really selling is fossil fuels.

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3. umm, that's why...

...we are transitioning away from fossil fuels, so that what we need energy for, like making hydrogen, won't use fossil fuels.

See the connection?