Green hydrogen trucks will run on 10 highways of India, a big step by the government
Highway: The government has announced to run green hydrogen trucks on 10 highway routes across the country. Indian Oil and Reliance Petroleum will build hydrogen stations. Big truck manufacturers like Tata, Ashok Leyland and Volvo also joined.
On Tuesday, Union Road Transport Minister Nitin Gadkari said that the government has identified 10 such highway routes across the country, where trucks running on green hydrogen will run. This step aims to reduce rising vehicle pollution.
Further, Gadkari added that Indian Oil and Reliance Petroleum will build hydrogen filling stations on these highway routes. Apart from this, big vehicle manufacturers like Tata Motors, Ashok Leyland, and Volvo have already started work towards making hydrogen trucks.
The identified highway routes include Greater Noida-Delhi-Agra, Bhubaneshwar-Puri-Konark, Ahmedabad-Vadodara-Surat, Sahibabad-Faridabad-Delhi, Jamshedpur-Kalinganagar, Thiruvananthapuram-Kochi and Jamnagar-Ahmedabad, among others.