HW Richardson chief executive Anthony Jones. Photo / George Heard
Hydrogen is being talked up in Southland. And not by a Green Party think tank or a power company PR person, but by our largest private transport company, HW Richardson Group. This is industrial New
Zealand, rolling up its sleeves and getting on with the energy transition.
HWR has been trialling a hybrid hydrogen-diesel truck, and will now add 10 more to its fleet by the end of this year.It is also installing two refuellers, with systems for creating and storing hydrogen from fast-growing Christchurch company Fabrum.Notably, HWR’s hybrid truck and refuelling pilot – budgeted at $15 million – has so far been entirely self-funded.”We see that diesel fuels are only going to be around for another 10 to 15 years, and potentially shorter than that,” says HWR chief executive Anthony Jones.Change is…
Southland company HW Richardson’s big hydrogen play
