Six of Europe’s leading hydrogen refuelling station operators have formed a new alliance to speed up the rollout of hydrogen mobility and encourage OEMs to bring more fuel cell trucks to market.
Hydri (Sweden), TEAL Mobility (France), Fountain Fuel (Netherlands), H2 MOBILITY (Germany), Virya Energy (Belgium) and HYmpulsion (France) have established the Hydrogen Infrastructure Alliance (H2IA). Together, they currently run 92 hydrogen refuelling stations serving light and heavy-duty fleets, with 39 large-scale sites planned between now and 2028. Once built, those stations would be capable of refuelling more than 1,800 trucks per day.
The group says its goal is to align infrastructure and vehicle deployment across Europe through to 2028 and is already in discussions with major truck manufacturers about model availability and volumes.
Breaking the infrastructure–vehicle deadlock
The alliance’s strategy is to build stations ahead of demand to give OEMs confidence to ramp up hydrogen truck production. The group frames this “build it first” approach as the way to finally move past the industry’s long-standing chicken-and-egg dilemma. More stations should encourage higher truck volumes, which in turn improves utilisation and reduces fuel costs.
The alliance refers to this plan as “connecting the dots” – a reference to creating a contiguous network across key European freight corridors. Its members say the model mirrors how early-2000s mobile networks grew: better signal coverage drove more device adoption, which then funded more towers and lower system costs.
Hydrogen mobility gains momentum
Hydrogen demand from heavy-duty operators continues to rise in several regions. In Germany, H2 MOBILITY says trucks and buses already account for more than 70 per cent of consumption at its stations. The company argues that a coordinated European network now needs matching commitments from manufacturers to bring more vehicles forward.
Martin Jüngel, Managing Director and CFO of H2 MOBILITY, said the alliance “sends an important signal” and highlights that a pan-European network is already taking shape. He added that heavy-duty transport remains a “decisive driver” of hydrogen mobility and should be prioritised in European regulatory work.
Hydrogen and battery-electric in parallel
The alliance stresses that hydrogen is not positioned as a competitor to battery-electric transport. Instead, both technologies are described as complementary: batteries for shorter distances and predictable routes, hydrogen for long-haul, intensive duty cycles, specialist heavy loads and areas with limited grid capacity for fast charging.
H2 snapshot
Hydrogen pricing in Germany continues to move in the right direction ahead of 2026. Yesterday, hylane and H2 MOBILITY announced that customers using the hylane fuel card will be able to refuel at around 8 euros per kilogram at selected high-capacity stations from 1 January 2026. The price is achieved through secured offtake volumes, green hydrogen supply and the GHG quota system.
