The Mecca of the Hydrogen Industry... Hydrogen Cleaning Trucks Run Vividly Again in Changwon Special City

Korea Automotive Research Institute Signs 'Hydrogen Special Vehicle Demonstration Project Cooperation Agreement'

Reborn 10t Hydrogen Cleaning Truck to Begin Demonstration Operation in Changwon from Next Year

Changwon City in Gyeongnam signed a "Cooperation Agreement for the Hydrogen Special Equipment Demonstration Project" at the headquarters of the Korea Automotive Technology Institute.

[Asia Economy Yeongnam Reporting Headquarters Reporter Song Jong-gu] The hydrogen cleaning truck, which was previously demonstrated as an actual garbage collection vehicle in the Masanhappo-gu area of Changwon City, has been reborn as a newly enhanced vehicle based on a 10-ton truck and will vividly run throughout Changwon City starting in 2023.

On the 7th, Changwon Special City in Gyeongnam signed a 'Cooperation Agreement for the Hydrogen Special Vehicle Demonstration Project' at the Korea Automotive Technology Institute (KATRI) headquarters in Cheonan City. The 10-ton truck-based hydrogen cleaning truck developed as a government R&D project will begin demonstration operation in the Changwon area from 2023. Key local government and institutional officials, including Hong Nam-pyo, Mayor of Changwon Special City, attended the event.

The Ministry of Trade, Industry and Energy has been investing a total of 24 billion KRW from 2020 to 2023 to carry out the 'Development and Demonstration of Components and System Technologies for Large Hydrogen Truck-Based Special Vehicles' project led by KATRI.

Through a public contest for the demonstration operation of the completed 10-ton based hydrogen cleaning trucks (including compressed suction, road surface cleaning, arm roll, etc.), the demonstration local government was selected and the cooperation agreement was signed on this day.

In May 2020, the city was selected as the demonstration local government for the world's first developed 5-ton hydrogen cleaning truck and conducted actual garbage collection vehicle demonstration operations in the Masanhappo-gu area throughout 2021. Since the cleaning truck did not produce typical exhaust gas, noise, heat, or vibration, it was evaluated as having dramatically improved the working conditions of environmental workers operating the hydrogen cleaning truck. Valued for this experience, the know-how from operations in Changwon was applied, and the newly manufactured 10-ton hydrogen cleaning truck (compressed suction vehicle) has been put into demonstration operation again.

Mayor Hong Nam-pyo visited the Korea Automotive Technology Institute and met with Na Seung-sik, Director of KATRI, Nam Kyung-mo, Director of the Automotive Division at the Ministry of Trade, Industry and Energy, and Nam Won-ho, Head of Hyundai Motor Sales Division, to discuss cooperation plans for the successful demonstration operation of hydrogen special vehicles. He requested attention and cooperation to ensure that the core technology development and demonstration of land, sea, and air hydrogen mobility, which will be actively promoted from next year centered on KATRI’s Hydrogen Mobility Research Headquarters located in Changwon, proceed smoothly in Changwon.

Mayor Hong said, “The city has already demonstrated the best capabilities in supporting and promoting hydrogen special vehicle demonstrations through the 5-ton hydrogen cleaning truck,” and added, “By successfully implementing this demonstration project, Changwon will prove its reputation as a local government that achieves the best results, distinctly different from general local governments, in hydrogen-related demonstrations.”

He continued, “We will not be complacent with the hydrogen industry achievements the city has made so far, but will promote new hydrogen industry policies linked with nuclear power and defense industries, striving to make Changwon the incubator for hydrogen mobility development and the mecca of the hydrogen industry in Korea.”

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