Tata Motors Plans To Start A Pilot Project On Hydrogen ICE Truck In 2025

During Bharat Mobility Global Expo 2025, Tata Motors unveiled the Prima H.28 truck which is an indigenously developed truck with a range of about 550 km.

Key Highlights

• In the March quarter, Tata Motors plans to launch a trial project on hydrogen trucks, following the display of the Tata Prima H.28 vehicle at Auto Expo 2025.
• As a pilot project for the National Green Hydrogen Mission, the company and IOCL will run these hydrogen trucks on 3 routes for 18 months.
• Besides the Prima H.28 truck, Tata Motors has other hydrogen trucks namely Prima E.55 S and Prima H.55 S.

After the showcase of the Tata Prima H.28 truck at Auto Expo 2025, Tata Motors has a plan to start a pilot project based on hydrogen internal combustion engine-powered trucks in the March quarter. The company and IOCL will operate the trucks on 3 routes for 18 months as part of the National Green Hydrogen Mission pilot project.

Tata Motors already has highlighted its hydrogen trucks range including Tata Prima E.55 S and Tata Prima H.55 S models which were unveiled in Auto Expo 2024. Let’s explore the plans of Tata Motors for operating hydrogen trucks in the country.

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Tata Motors’ Plans For Hydrogen Trucks In 2025

Speaking on the sidelines of the Bharat Mobility Global Expo 2025 in Delhi, Girish Wagh, Executive Director, Tata Motors, “We already have 15 electric fuel cell buses running for more than 10 months with IOCL. There is a lot of work happening across the value chain for using hydrogen as a fuel.”

He further added, “The company is getting ready for both technologies - hydrogen internal combustion engine and fuel cell electric commercial vehicles. The trucks with hydrogen internal combustion engines will start operating this quarter. It will be operated on 3 routes Mumbai-Pune, Jamshedpur-Kalinganagar and Mumbai-Ahmedabad. The pilot project will generate a lot of data which will be used to improve the product as well as the infrastructure for fuelling hydrogen.”

“The company is getting ready for commercial launch within 12 to 24 months for hydrogen fuel vehicles and is looking forward to some support. Tata Commercial Vehicles is repositioning itself for a better value proposition. Bold transformation is happening based on sustainability, safety, and digital and Artificial Intelligence.”

Way Forward

As per Girish Wagh, the commercial vehicles market has been more of a roller coaster this fiscal. He said, “We are seeing green shoots in all the end-use segments and looking forward to the fourth quarter being a good quarter. The government has been very supportive of electrification and sustainability transition. Not just in the Union Budget but throughout the year, there have been a lot of interventions whether it is FAME incentives, and PLIs (Production Linked Incentives).” 

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