Toyota’s hydrogen strategy is gradually taking shape at the Paris Olympic Games. H2Gremm has announced that it has set up a refuelling station on the Champs de Mars for Toyota. The station will be used for forklift trucks equipped with fuel cells.

A few months ago, the Japanese giant announced its intention to present around ten hydrogen applications at the Paris 2024 Olympic Games. In addition to cars (Toyota Mirai), hydrogen-powered trucks (Bert&You and Hyliko), buses (Caetano) and coaches (GCK, Be Green) and forklift trucks will be deployed.

In a post on LinkedIn, the French company H2Gremm said that it “is proud to support Toyota Material Handling France and Toyota Motor Europe in decarbonisation solutions for professional mobility. The company is supplying a hydrogen production and distribution station that saving up to 5kg of C02 per kg of hydrogen produced on site.”

This station has several special features. The first is that it provides ultra pure hydrogen (99.9995%) at high pressure (450 bar), without any moving parts, and is therefore silent. It is the subject of an H2Gremm patent. Besides, this station is not connected to the water network. It has its own reserve and is recharged when the forklift trucks are refuelled by drawing in the water from the reaction in the fuel cell – the water is in a closed loop.

The H2Gremm offer complements the hydrogen mass production and distribution solutions offered by players such as Air Liquide, TotalEnergies and HRS. This company from Brittany is a partner of Pragma Mobility for light mobility.

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Article written by Laurent Meillaud and translated by Logan King