Havi Logistics, 10,000 kilometers are driven with hydrogen trucks every day.
In a world first, logistics company HAVI transported ingredients for Big Macs and other products to a McDonald’s restaurant in a zero-emission hydrogen truck.
Due to its long range of 400 kilometers, the zero-emission truck – powered by green electricity – transported the consignment from the HAVI logistics center in Oensingen (SO) to Crissier (VD), where McDonald’s head office has a restaurant, without refueling once and with water vapour as the only emission.
Going forward, this truck will be supplying McDonald’s restaurants in the Aargau, Basel, Bern and Zurich regions. This finds the long-standing partners an effective step closer to achieving one of their climate goals: transporting 70 percent of McDonald’s Switzerland’s goods to its restaurants in a CO2-neutral manner by 2025; that figure stands at 64 percent today.
Aglaë Strachwitz, Managing Director of McDonald’s Switzerland:
To provide our environment with effective protection, we need integrated approaches – from logistics via the restaurants to the customers.
“We have been pursuing important climate goals for years, one of which involves HAVI, our logistics partner for over 35 years”
Havi Logistics, climate-neutral delivery of Big Macs with green hydrogen trucks
45 percent reduction in CO2 emissions since 2009
Reducing CO2 emissions is a focus at McDonald’s and HAVI, which is why climate protection takes place on a variety of levels: Procurement from suppliers in Switzerland results in short transport distances and correspondingly low CO2 emissions.
In addition, 55 percent of the transport kilometers covered by McDonald’s supplies between HAVI’s logistics center in Oensingen and the restaurants are accounted for by rail. This combined transport was the first major pioneering initiative undertaken by HAVI and McDonald’s.
Since 2009, McDonald’s Switzerland has been able to reduce its restaurants’ CO2 emissions by 45 percent thanks to these measures and the use of green electricity from hydropower.
Sustainable fuels from waste
Unavoidable waste from McDonald’s kitchens is used for something new: Since the early 2000s, biodiesel has been produced from waste frying oil, while biogas has been produced from organic kitchen waste.
HAVI’s trucks, which are used for the last-mile distribution of goods to the restaurants, run on a variable proportion of biodiesel or biogas. This closes the circle of another pioneering achievement in Switzerland.
HAVI’s first hydrogen truck
Andreas Schwab, Managing Director of HAVI Switzerland:
We are immensely proud to be offering McDonald’s Switzerland the next step towards even more sustainable logistics
“Uniquely, because we are the first logistics provider in the world to be offering this to McDonald’s.”
Boasting a range of 400 kilometers, this first hydrogen truck runs quietly as well as emission-free; refueling with green hydrogen created using renewable energies takes just 10 minutes. HAVI is launching this pilot in collaboration with the Association pro H2 Mobility Switzerland, which is committed to promoting and speeding up the development of hydrogen mobility, by taking concrete measures.
[Eurotransport.de] Another hydrogen truck is now on Swiss roads for Havi Logistics, increasing the number to 38 fuel cell vehicles.Daniel Keller, COO of Hyundai Hydrogen Mobility (HHM):
There will be 46 units by the end of May
Currently around 10,000 kilometers are driven with hydrogen trucks every day.
Andreas Schwab, Managing Director Havi Switzerland:
We are very proud that we can now offer McDonald’s Switzerland the next step towards even more sustainable logistics
The company’s first hydrogen truck has a range of 400 kilometers, can be refueled in ten minutes and is quiet and emission-free with green hydrogen from renewable energies. Havi is working on the pilot project with the H2 Mobility Switzerland Association, which is committed to promoting and accelerating the development of hydrogen mobility in Switzerland.
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Completely new system
Hyundai COO Keller:
We are mastering a major challenge because it is not just about a new truck, but about a completely new system. Everything we do, we do for the first time.
In Switzerland, the chicken and egg problem is being solved by setting up a new tank infrastructure and new vehicle fleets in parallel and in comparison with one another.
In Korea, large-scale production for the Hyundai Xcient Fuell Cell has now started, Keller explained the further process. More vehicles would be shipped at the end of the year. He assumes that 20 to 30 H2 trucks will be on the roads from January 2022. At the end of 2020 there should be a total of around 300, so that there will be 1,000 fuel cell vehicles by 2025.
Welcoming H2 To Our HAVI Fleet!, May 4, 2021
