STANDARDS & COMMITTEES The heavy-duty truck market is keen to adopt hydrogen as a sustainable fuel source. Future fuels: What SAE J2601-5 means for industry amidst growing interest in hydrogen By Steve Mathison, VP and Hydrogen Technologies Fellow at FirstElement Fuel, Inc., and Fuel Cell Interface Task Force Chair. A recent well-written and informative SAE Media news article, Time for Hydrogen, notes that hydrogen holds much promise in decarbonizing the transportation sector, and there is a flurry of R&D activity in bringing hydrogen powered mobility 40 April 2024 applications to market. And nowhere is this interest and activity more prominent than in the heavy-duty (HD) truck market. Many truck manufacturers, both big and small, are developing hydrogen fuel cell and hydrogen ICE powered trucks. Production light-duty (LD) fuel cell vehicles have been available from several manufacturers since 2014; just recently, truck manufacturers UPDATE Toyotahttps://www.sae.org/news/2023/01/time-for-hydrogen