GP Joule and Clean Logistics behind move – 500 new jobs planned in Hamburg Metropolitan Region GP Joule in Reußenköge in Schleswig-Holstein is aiming to put the first of 5,000 hydrogen-powered lorries on roads across Germany by mid 2023. Hydrogen can prove a viable alternative to costly batteries for heavy-duty lorries as the fuel can be filled quickly into high-pressure tanks and converted into electric power. This comes as subsidies of up to EUR 9,000 per car are likely to have put around one million electrically-driven cars on roads by early 2023, according to the Federal Motor Transport Authority.
5,000 hydrogen-powered electric lorries by 2027
“We are building the market for green hydrogen ourselves,” said Ove Petersen, CEO of GP Joule. Unitil now, the company has operated plants for generating renewable energy from the sun, wind and biomass. Petersen is now…