The Central government has identified 10 highway stretches in different parts of the country to facilitate the operation of trucks running on green hydrogen, Union Road Transport and Highways Minister Nitin Gadkari said on Tuesday. The minister added that there will be stations to fill hydrogen in vehicles on these stretches. These hydrogen pumps will be set up by Indian Oil and Reliance Petroleum. Notably, Tata Motors, Ashok Leyland, and Volvo have already started making hydrogen-powered trucks.
List Of Highways
The identified highway stretches include Greater Noida-Delhi-Agra, Bhubaneshwar-Puri-Konark, Ahmedabad-Vadodara-Surat, Sahibabad-Faridabad-Delhi, Jamshedpur-Kalinganagar, Thiruvananthapuram-Kochi, Jamnagar-Ahmedabad, etc.
Gadkari said that climate change is the biggest challenge facing India, adding that the country needs to improve its infrastructure to become a USD 5 trillion economy and the third largest economy in the world. While he also stressed that India has the potential to become the largest exporter of green hydrogen, the minister emphasised that by December this year, India’s logistics cost will come down to a single digit.