About 100 kilometres from Amsterdam in a workshop dedicated to vehicle electrification sits one of two unique hydrogen fuel cell-electric utility vehicles – Australian company H2X Global’s Warrego utility.
The company converted two such vehicles based on Ford’s Ranger concurrently, one here in Holland and a second at its facility in Sale, Victoria, fitting them with the company’s hydrogen fuel cell drive trains.
H2X Global CEO Brendan Norman picked me up in Amsterdam, where I am working for a period for a change of scene, and drove me to view, and drive in, the Warrego.
First announced in 2020, Norman explained the Warrego is a proof of concept vehicle for H2X – 250 will be built and placed with users to test and collect information on the performance of the drive train.
Hydrogen is stored in composite tanks before being fed into an H2X fuel cell – this charges…
First drive in Australia’s hydrogen fuelled Warrego utility
