{"id":229024,"date":"2026-01-14T13:10:04","date_gmt":"2026-01-14T19:10:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/01\/the-best-hydrogen-for-heavy-duty-transport-is-locally-produced-and-green-say-researchers"},"modified":"2026-01-14T13:10:04","modified_gmt":"2026-01-14T19:10:04","slug":"the-best-hydrogen-for-heavy-duty-transport-is-locally-produced-and-green-say-researchers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/01\/the-best-hydrogen-for-heavy-duty-transport-is-locally-produced-and-green-say-researchers","title":{"rendered":"The best hydrogen for heavy-duty transport is locally produced and green, say researchers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/the-best-hydrogen-for-heavy-duty-transport-is-locally-produced-and-green-say-researchers2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>If trucks ran on hydrogen instead of fossil fuels, carbon dioxide emissions from heavy-duty road transport could be significantly reduced. At the same time, a new study from Chalmers University of Technology in Sweden shows that differences in how the gas is produced, distributed and used greatly affect its climate benefits.<\/p>\n<p>Locally produced green hydrogen is the best option for the climate\u2014with the additional benefit of enabling all countries to become self-sufficient in energy and fuel, even in times of crisis and war.<\/p>\n<p>Heavy-duty road transport currently accounts for one fifth of global oil consumption and, in the EU, heavy-duty diesel trucks are the largest source of emissions of the transport-related greenhouse gas carbon dioxide. In the future, the need for road transport is expected to increase, and consequently also the sector\u2019s demand for fossil fuels from oil.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If trucks ran on hydrogen instead of fossil fuels, carbon dioxide emissions from heavy-duty road transport could be significantly reduced. At the same time, a new study from Chalmers University of Technology in Sweden shows that differences in how the gas is produced, distributed and used greatly affect its climate benefits. Locally produced green hydrogen [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":662,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[493,20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-229024","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-climatology","category-futurism"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/229024","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/662"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=229024"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/229024\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=229024"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=229024"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=229024"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}