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After a three-year run, the »WaVe« project ended successfully with two hydrogen demonstrators on June 30, 2024. One last time the consortium gathered for the final meeting on June 20 at the Institut für Oberflächen- und Schichttechnik (IFOS GmbH) in Kaiserslautern. Host: Institut für Oberflächen- und Schichttechnik Prof. Johannes L’huillier of the Institut für Oberflächen-…

Last week at the IAA Transportation, the first demonstrator of the joint project WaVe won the ETM Award Best Of New Transportation – concept-Truck! For more information on the award: https://www.eurotransport.de/artikel/etm-award-die-leser-haben-gewaehlt

For the last time the consortium of »WaVe« met on June 20th 2024 at the Institut für Oberflächen und Schichttechnik GmbH (IFOS) in Kaiserslautern. The event began with the introduction of the institute by the CEO Dr. L’huillier. Since the beginning of 2024 IFOS has combined the research activities of (previous) Photonik-Zentrum Kaiserslautern e. V. and…

In the current “be a mover”-talk Jörg Howe interviews Franziska Cusumano (head of Mercedes-Benz Special Trucks and Custom Tailored Trucks). She references the joint project WaVe and it’s UNIMOG demonstrator from minute 6 onwards. The Video shows the testing of the demonstrator on a closed section of the autobahn near Bayreuth. More details on the…

On November 13th HYDAC Process Technology GmbH welcomed its consortium partners in Saarbrücken to the fourth consortium meeting of WaVe. The event started with an introduction of the HYDAC News Techonologies GmbH, which is part of the HYDAC Group and focusses on the fields of „Hydrogen & Advanced Solutions“, „Mobile Electrification“ and „Advanced Steering Systems“.…

On December 7th 2023 the sixth networking conference of “hydrogen-based commercial vehicles” took place at the Leibniz-Institut für Verbundwerkstoffe in Kaiserslautern. The sixth event focussed on the research project »WaVe«. Attendants perceived exclusiv insights into the research project and a demonstration of the running hydrogen-based UNIMOG-demonstrator. A sneak peek is also available at the program…

In June the first WaVe demonstrator attrected great interest at the Demopark 2023 in Eisenach. More information, a review and interviews can be found on the Mercedes Benz Trucks website: https://special.mercedes-benz-trucks.com/en/unimog/unimog-wave.html

The first mowing operation outside the Daimler Truck plant in Wörth took place on the road in August 2023, equipped with a mowing attachment from Gerhard Dücker GmbH & Co. KG.

Another successful consortium meeting of the joint project »WaVe« took place on Wednesday, June 14th, 2023 at ITK Engineering GmbH in Rülzheim. The agenda included updates of recent results in the subprojects, a company presentation including a tour of the ITK labs and the presentation of the first driving (UNIMOG-) demonstrator with a hydrogen-powered combustion…

In addition to over 20 official exhibits of Unimog implement carriers, the Mercedes-Benz trade fair team will as part of the publicly funded “WaVe” research project, also be presenting a prototype Unimog based on the U 430 with a hydrogen-powered combustion engine as an option for a zero-emission future for the tried-and-tested implement carrier. Klick…

First test drive with the hydrogen-powered implement carrier in Wörth Just one year and 9 months in, the joint project »WaVe« reaches a key milestone of its project schedule: The driving UNIMOG demonstrator with hydrogen engine is presented at Daimler Truck AGs development center in Wörth. The first engine run following the first rolling trails…

On December 12, 2022 the consortium meeting of the joint project »WaVe«, which has been running for 1.5 years, took place in situ at the Leibniz-Institut für Verbundwerkstoffe GmbH. Particularly shared highlights of the achieved milestones with the consortium: Thank you very much to the Leibniz-Institut für Verbundwerkstoffe GmbH for hosting the event and for…

The first test phase of the H2-engine of the joint project »WaVe« was successfully completed in October on the hydrogen test bench of KST-Motorenversuch GmbH & Co. KG. The newly appliqued motor passed various test cycles without aborting due to error messages or knocking phenomena. Furthermore, load jumps in drive mode and in PTO mode…

After the joint project funded by the German Federal Ministry of Economic Affairs and Climate Action started on July 01, 2021, the first consortium meeting could finally take place in presence at Mercedes-Benz-Special Trucks on July 20, 2022. Exciting work results were presented, such as the first firing of the first medium-duty hydrogen engine in…