{"id":9030,"date":"2026-09-28T13:45:24","date_gmt":"2026-09-28T17:45:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/mae\/?p=9030"},"modified":"2026-09-28T13:45:25","modified_gmt":"2026-09-28T17:45:25","slug":"hydrogen-for-heavy-duty-vehicles","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/mae\/2026\/hydrogen-for-heavy-duty-vehicles\/","title":{"rendered":"Hydrogen for heavy-duty vehicles?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<section class=\"w-screen px-6 cu-section cu-section--white ml-offset-center md:px-8 lg:px-14\">\n    <div class=\"space-y-6 cu-max-w-child-5xl  md:space-y-10 cu-prose-first-last\">\n\n            <div class=\"cu-textmedia flex flex-col lg:flex-row mx-auto gap-6 md:gap-10 my-6 md:my-12 first:mt-0 max-w-5xl\">\n        <div class=\"justify-start cu-textmedia-content cu-prose-first-last\" style=\"flex: 0 0 100%;\">\n            <header class=\"font-light prose-xl cu-pageheader md:prose-2xl cu-component-updated cu-prose-first-last\">\n                                    <h1 class=\"cu-prose-first-last font-semibold !mt-2 mb-4 md:mb-6 relative after:absolute after:h-px after:bottom-0 after:bg-cu-red after:left-px text-3xl md:text-4xl lg:text-5xl lg:leading-[3.5rem] pb-5 after:w-10 text-cu-black-700 not-prose\">\n                        Hydrogen for heavy-duty vehicles?\n                    <\/h1>\n                \n                                \n                            <\/header>\n\n                    <\/div>\n\n            <\/div>\n\n    <\/div>\n<\/section>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Hydrogen is being proposed as a strategy to decarbonize several hard-to-abate sectors of the global economy, including heavy-duty road freight. <a href=\"https:\/\/pubs.acs.org\/esthag\/article\/60\/32\/22119\/5246555\/A-Sector-Coupling-Model-to-Evaluate-the-Role-of\">New research by Andrew J. Moffat<\/a> (MASc, 2026) and <a href=\"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/mae\/people\/ahmed-abdulla\/\">Ahmed Abdulla<\/a>, published in <em>Environmental Science &amp; Technology<\/em>, compares the effect of converting this critical transportation sub-sector into either battery-electric trucking or hydrogen fuel-cell trucking, with a focus on the newfound interdependency between zero-emission heavy-duty vehicles and the electricity grid.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">By developing a sector-coupling generation expansion planning model to achieve net-zero emissions in 2050, they demonstrate that when considering the electric grid impacts of zero-emission trucks, battery-electric trucks offer the cost optimal approach, with up to 47% savings compared to the hydrogen alternative.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In fact, current hydrogen price targets, including America\u2019s \u201chydrogen shot\u201d of achieving $1\/kg by 2030, are too high to achieve decarbonization via hydrogen fuel-cell trucks; parity with batteries is only achieved when hydrogen prices for the consumer (in other words, at the pump) fall below $1\/kg. Their research also shows that abatement costs for decarbonizing heavy-duty vehicles are within the scope of Canada\u2019s former carbon pricing schemes, which were eliminated by the Carney government. Diesel fuel prices must rise by 20\u201350\u00a2\/L to promote decarbonization of heavy-duty trucking for both BETs and HFCTs, which was happening before Carney\u2019s elevation to the post of prime minister.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image aligncenter size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"233\" height=\"215\" src=\"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/mae\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/117\/2026\/09\/Hydrogen_Heavy_Vehicle_image.jpg\" alt=\"Hydrogen_Heavy_Vehicle_image\" class=\"wp-image-9031\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hydrogen is being proposed as a strategy to decarbonize several hard-to-abate sectors of the global economy, including heavy-duty road freight. New research by Andrew J. Moffat (MASc, 2026) and Ahmed Abdulla, published in Environmental Science &amp; Technology, compares the effect of converting this critical transportation sub-sector into either battery-electric trucking or hydrogen fuel-cell trucking, with [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":656,"featured_media":9033,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9030","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"acf":{"cu_post_thumbnail":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/mae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9030","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/mae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/mae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/mae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/656"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/mae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9030"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/mae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9030\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9034,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/mae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9030\/revisions\/9034"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/mae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/9033"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/mae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9030"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/mae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9030"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/mae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9030"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}