Under the auspices of Saudi Aramco, for the first time in the world, a hydrogen-powered truck developed by the French company “Gossen” is participating during the Dakar Rally in its third Saudi edition for the year 2022 AD, to highlight the importance of developing transportation technologies with lower emissions.

Saudi Aramco and Goosen have agreed to share the Center for Advanced Innovations (Lab7) in the efforts of (Josen) to manufacture hydrogen-powered vehicles, and to develop an autonomous or remote-controlled hydrogen-powered racing truck. It is produced by Saudi Aramco along with the current products produced by the "Josin" company, with the aim of trying to reduce the weight, energy consumption and costs of these vehicles, and this comes within the framework of the company's attempt to explore hydrogen and other energy solutions with a lower percentage of carbon.

The truck has many technical features that make it the world's first hydrogen truck to combine technology and power, and is built with high-quality components to work in harsh environments, including: two 300 kW electric motors each, 380 kW fuel cells and 82 kWh batteries , 80 kg of hydrogen, and a high-performance cooling system, and the truck has a lightweight chassis designed specifically for the performance and integration of hydrogen, a maximum speed of 140 km per hour according to regulations, and it takes 20 minutes to recharge it with a specific hydrogen cooling station, and a travel of 250 km in conditions Race.

It is noteworthy that with the development of fuel production technologies, hydrogen fuel can play a greater role in trying to reduce carbon emissions in the transportation sector. Faster, and it provides a longer driving range.

Since 2019, Saudi Aramco has been testing a group of hydrogen-powered vehicles, after the opening of the first station for fueling vehicles in the Kingdom, which can be used in the transportation sector, and this, along with the application of carbon capture, use and storage technology, can contribute to efforts to reduce carbon dioxide emissions. Carbon dioxide, the plant supplies high-purity compressed hydrogen fuel to an initial batch of six Toyota Mirai hydrogen fuel cell electric vehicles.