\nAsda’s billionaire owners, the Issa brothers, have invested \u00a330m in zero-emission, hydrogen-powered lorry start-up HVS.<\/p>\n
The company, which has also won \u00a321m in taxpayer-funded grants, has been trialing and developing a lorry which runs on hydrogen fuel cells at the Mira proving ground in Nuneaton, Warwickshire, The Times reported<\/a>.<\/p>\n Looking to begin production by 2026, HVS has said its lorry will have a range of around 350 miles and can be refuelled in the same time that it takes to fill the tank of a diesel lorry.<\/p>\n Sign up\u00a0here to get the latest grocery and food news<\/span>\u00a0each morning<\/span><\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n This comes as the government has ruled that all new heavy goods vehicles (HGVs) will have to be zero-emission by 2040.<\/p>\n The funding from Mohin and Zuber Issa comes as they look to construct Britian’s first network of hydrogen fuel stations.<\/p>\n The brothers’ EG Group believes a hydrogen lorry fleet can be serviced by seven hydrogen filling stations at Dover, on the north M25, in the Midlands, and around Bristol, Manchester, Leeds, and Glasgow.<\/p>\n Earlier this year, Asda began working with HVS to create a self-driving, zero-emission heavy goods tractor unit which is set to begin trials in 2024<\/a>.<\/p>\n
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