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IKEA Austria has partnered up with Quantron AG to be the first IKEA market worldwide to introduce hydrogen fuel cell trucks.
Quantron AG, specialist automaker in sustainable passenger and freight transport, is supplying the QUANTRON QLI FCEV model vehicles to IKEA Austria as part of the collaboration.
The zero-emission transporters will be fuelled with green hydrogen from energy supplier Wien Energie.
Alpaslan Deliloglu, CEO and chief sustainability officer at IKEA Austria, said:
“By introducing the hydrogen trucks, we succeed in Austria in taking a big step in implementing environmentally friendly processes. In this way, as a pioneer in the field of sustainable logistics, we want to show that a transformation to zero-emission delivery is already possible today.”
The fuel cell vehicles were developed in collaboration with Ballard Power Systems, a Canadian developer in fuel cell technology.
One tank of fuel is sufficient for a range of up to 400 km, allowing distances of more than 500 km per day.
Andreas Haller, founder and executive chairman of Quantron AG, said:
“The QLI FCEV is the first H2 vehicle in the fuel cell commercial vehicle segment up to 7.5 t in Europe and the market leader in fuel cell technology in this class. We have been supporting IKEA Austria on its mission of decarbonization since August 2021. IKEA Austria has 45 QLI BEV trucks in use in the greater Vienna area and a further 11 in other Austrian cities.”
The use of the battery-electric QUANTRON vehicles estimates to save around 450 tons of CO2 annually.
The FCEV trucks have a longer range for deliveries and are expected to reduce CO2 emissions by another 160 tons per year.
By 2025, IKEA Austria plans to make 100% of its last-mile deliveries emission-free. The company announced to expand its fleet of H2 trucks to 40 units by 2025.
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