"Our fleet now includes four different types of low carbon heavy vehicles ...

The Mitsubishi Fuso E-Canter, our first electric truck, co-funded by EECA, has been on New Zealand roads since 2022, serving both Auckland and Wellington. The Hydrogen-powered Hyundai XCIENT FCEV, also co-funded by EECA, has a range of 450 km and primarily operates between Auckland and Hamilton."

https://www.nzpost.co.nz/about-us/sustainability/low-emission-vehicles

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Low-emission vehicles powering your deliveries | NZ Post

People have quibbled with me multiple times here about whether hydrogen generated from surplus renewables might be viable one day as a fuel for heavy vehicles. Meanwhile, NZ Post went and bought a hydrogen-powered truck and is using it in production as we speak.

Feeling a bit vindicated, I have to say.

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@strypey Most of the problems hydrogen has are related to the fossil fuels it was produced from chemically or by using electrolysis using fossil fuel generated electricity. If you're using renewables for it, most of the problems go away. You still have the much smaller environmental impact of the infrastructure used to generate, distribute and store it. Compared to fossil fuel infrastructure, it's inherently less damaging, and using it for fuel is zero carbon, low pollution, especially if used in electric vehicles via fuel cell generators rather than internal combustion, and most of the pollution is from lubricants, frictions and tyres.

@cybervegan
> If you're using renewables for it, most of the problems go away

All the debates I've had with pathological hydrogen-rejecters here were specifically about the use of green hydrogen from surplus renewables. They have a million reasons why any hydrogen-based tech is a nonstarter. Eg;

https://mastodon.nz/@BobLefridge/114677602231756636

@strypey Heh, "the market" will sort it out, right? ;-) But more seriously, it's got to be better than pumping fossil fuels, and if integrated into a transportation system that includes good public transport, rail networks etc. that reduce road traffic, and thus demand for fuel for personal vehicles, it would be a net improvement, right? I think a lot of people reject anything and everything that wouldn't result in being able to maintain the *current* way of doing things, as if all of that would be a retrograde step. And it's not like the proposal is anything like using food crops to make ethanol or biodiesel, which make much less sense, but I think some people apply the same logic. I suspect NZ has different specifics than here (the UK) but I doubt the thinking is a lot different: "you're just trying to take away our right to (whatever)" without accepting that there's a whole other, better proposition. Anything that is likely to make the rich less rich, or improve the environment, is always portrayed as something that will make the (already terribly unfree) poor, less "free".