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Hydrogen trucks are coming (www.nzherald.co.nz)

submitted 6 months ago by rimu@piefed.social to c/newzealand@lemmy.nz

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Hiringa, with partners fuel supplier Waitomo Group and Australasia’s largest heavy vehicle fleet owner TR Group, on Tuesday opened three green hydrogen stations, with a fourth under way, within the North Island’s economic “golden triangle” of freight movement.

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[–] TagMeInSkipIGotThis@lemmy.nz 2 points 6 months ago

Yup; and the previous increases to size & weight of freight trucks bought in by National governments is a large factor in the cost of building and maintaining roads now. While at the same time we continue to let most of our rail network degenerate and have done nothing to try to recover coastal shipping from when it was destroyed in the 80s to de-power the maritime unions.