en.Wedoany.com Reported - China Hydrogen Energy Group Co., Ltd. recently launched a new generation of hydrogen-powered autonomous intelligent urban logistics vehicles and has secured an intent order for 5,000 urban logistics vehicles, with the first batch of 100 vehicles set to commence mass production and delivery. This vehicle model was developed over nearly three years of research, iteration, and breakthroughs by a core team led by a post-90s chief technical expert and a post-00s core team. It is equipped with a fully proprietary core technology hydrogen-powered autonomous driving system, targeting large-scale deployment in urban smart logistics scenarios, marking the official entry of domestically produced hydrogen-powered autonomous urban delivery vehicles into the commercial and large-scale application stage.
The newly released vehicle is equipped with a full-stack self-developed L4-level autonomous driving intelligent system, integrating LiDAR, millimeter-wave radar, high-definition visual perception, high-precision BeiDou positioning, and inertial navigation fusion control systems. It enables 360-degree omnidirectional environmental perception, fully automatic path planning, intelligent active obstacle avoidance, automatic following, autonomous lane changing, and precise parking for fully unmanned operations. The vehicle supports all-weather intelligent scheduling, cloud-based cluster management, real-time status monitoring, and intelligent fault early warning, making it suitable for scenarios such as urban park distribution, short-distance urban logistics, enclosed commercial area transfers, and end-point smart logistics in cities.
Compared to pure electric new energy logistics vehicles, hydrogen power offers comprehensive advantages in multiple performance aspects. Its hydrogen refueling process takes only 3 minutes, and a single full hydrogen charge provides a range of over 300 kilometers, addressing issues such as slow charging, long waiting times, shift gaps, and low operational efficiency in pure electric vehicles. This makes it suitable for high-frequency, high-density, and uninterrupted logistics turnover needs in urban areas.
The hydrogen power system shows no performance degradation in low-temperature environments. While pure electric vehicles often experience range halving and battery degradation in winter, the hydrogen system is unaffected by low temperatures, maintaining stable range, power, and output performance even in extreme cold, enabling year-round normalized operations without differentiation.
The vehicle produces only pure water emissions during operation, with no exhaust or noise pollution, aligning with the policy direction of green urban transportation and low-carbon logistics. In terms of overall operational costs, the unmanned intelligent operation mode reduces labor costs for drivers and costs from human-induced accidents; the hydrogen refueling mode increases daily vehicle shift frequency by over 30%; the fuel cell power system has a long lifespan, slow degradation, and simple maintenance, making the total lifecycle operational costs superior to those of traditional fuel vehicles and pure electric vehicles.
The realization of this intent order for 5,000 urban logistics vehicles represents the independent innovation achievements of China Hydrogen Energy Group's youth science and innovation team in the field of hydrogen energy technology, and also demonstrates that domestically produced hydrogen-powered autonomous intelligent driving equipment has the capability for large-scale marketization and commercialization.
China Hydrogen Energy Group stated that it will continue to advance the iterative upgrade of hydrogen-powered autonomous vehicle technology and intelligent scheduling systems, promoting the localization, intelligentization, and large-scale development of hydrogen energy equipment.
