Us logistics company IMC buys 50 hydrogen trucks

After two years of testing pure electric vehicles, American logistics company IMC was so disappointed that it decided to buy 50 Nikola fuel cell trucks for its operations in California, Arizona and Nevada.

It is understood that California regulations require that all new transport trucks registered since January 2023 must be zero-emission vehicles, so the United States logistics company IMC chose to choose between pure electric trucks and hydrogen trucks, but because the former can only work 4 to 6 hours a day under load, it is now choosing to use hydrogen fuel cell trucks.

The 50 hydrogen trucks ordered by IMC are valued at more than $22 million, with each truck selling for more than $440,000, and while IMC executives are cautious about Nikola's first-generation technology, they expect significant improvements in the coming years.

Nikola officially launched the first hydrogen fuel cell heavy truck in 2023, and the Tre FCEV model is the only hydrogen fuel cell Class 8 truck on U.S. roads today, with a range of 500 miles. Nikola says it has one of the longest ranges of any zero-emission commercial Class 8 truck. At present, the plant can produce about 2,400 hydrogen heavy trucks per year in the form of three shifts. Although Nikola is facing a cumulative loss of $240 million and more than $200 million per quarter, Nikola hopes the new truck will help revive the company.