Union Road Transport and Highways Minister Nitin Gadkari on Tuesday said that the government has identified 10 highway stretches in different parts of the country for the operation of trucks running on green hydrogen.
Gadkari said that there will be stations to fill hydrogen in vehicles on these stretches. Indian Oil and Reliance Petroleum will set up hydrogen pumps. He said that Tata Motors, Ashok Leyland and Volvo have already started making hydrogen-powered trucks. Let us tell you that preparations are going on in full swing to bring hydrogen-powered trucks on the roads to reduce pollution caused by diesel trucks in the country.
Hydrogen trucks will speed on these highways
The identified highway stretches include Greater Noida-Delhi-Agra, Bhubaneshwar-Puri-Konark, Ahmedabad-Vadodara-Surat, Sahibabad-Faridabad-Delhi, Jamshedpur-Kalinganagar, Thiruvananthapuram-Kochi and Jamnagar-Ahmedabad etc. The minister said that climate change is the biggest challenge facing India. He said that India has to improve its infrastructure to become a $5000 billion economy and the third largest economy in the world. Gadkari also said that India has the potential to become the largest exporter of green hydrogen. He said that by December this year, India’s logistics cost will come down to single digit.
India’s road logistics cost reduced by 6 percent
The Union Minister said that the most important achievement is that IIM Bangalore, IIT Chennai and IIT Kanpur conducted a study and all three said that India’s road logistics cost has come down by 6 percent. Earlier, India’s logistics cost was around 14-16 percent, while in China it was eight percent and in the US and the European Union it was 12 percent. He said that the government’s aim is to make India’s automobile industry the best in the world in the next five years.
