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India’s Adani partners with Leyland, Ballard to make hydrogen fueled electric truck

News: Adani Enterprises Limited (AEL), an Indian company, announced on Tuesday that it has signed a contract with Ashok Leyland and Ballard Power, a Canadian company, to start a pilot project to create a hydrogen fuel cell electric truck (FCET) for the logistics and transportation of mining operations.

• Ballard will supply the fuel cell engine for the Adani-led project, and Ashok Leyland, an Indian truck manufacturer, will supply the project with vehicles and technical support.
• The Adani Group’s flagship company announced in a release that the FCET would be introduced in India in 2023.
• Electrolysis, a process that splits water with electricity, produces hydrogen, which can be used as fuel. The substance is known as green hydrogen if the electrolysers—the machinery that accomplishes this—are driven by renewable energy.
• The Adani Group, headed by Asia’s richest man Gautam Adani, intends to invest more than $50 billion over the course of the next ten years in green hydrogen and related ecosystems, with a capacity of up to 3 million tonnes.
• The Indian government recently approved a $2.11 billion incentive programme to promote green hydrogen and earlier this month set green hydrogen consumption goals for specific companies.
• Green hydrogen is a major focus for Indian businesses including Reliance Industries, Indian Oil, NTPC, Adani, JSW Energy, ReNew Power, and Acme Solar.
• As part of a plan to establish a new green hydrogen project in India, Adani has a partnership with the French energy company TotalEnergies.
• By 2070, India wants to achieve net zero carbon emissions.