Goodbye to polluting trucks--Walmart unveils the first green hydrogen vehicle approved in Latin America

Goodbye to polluting trucks—Walmart unveils the first green hydrogen vehicle approved in Latin America

ElAdelantado.com | Raquel | August 24, 2025

Our dear Walmart just put a 49-ton message on Chilean roads: diesel’s days are numbered. The retailer’s Santiago distribution hub is now home to Latin America’s first government-approved heavy truck powered by green hydrogen, a prototype that can haul 49t for more than 460 miles while emitting nothing but water.

Walmart’s Chilean hydrogen leap

The truck, built by China’s Feichi Technology, runs a 120-kW fuel-cell stack that turns 75 kg of green hydrogen into electricity for a single-speed e-axle. Refuelling takes about 20 minutes.

Its fuel comes from a 0.6 MW electrolyser Walmart and ENGIE installed at Quilicura —Latin America’s first industrial green-H₂ plant— making roughly 75 kg of hydrogen a day from solar and wind power. The US$15 m plant already powers 200 hydrogen forklifts; the road truck is HidroHaul’s public-facing crown jewel.

Why Chile? Well, the keys are the sun and wind. The Atacama Desert posts world-record solar irradiation, while Patagonia delivers strong wind nights. Chile’s 2020 National Green Hydrogen Strategy aims for 5 GW of electrolysis by 2030 and exports by 2040. Government agency CORFO backs pilots with grants and soft loans; HidroHaul secured US$6.15 m in first-round funds...more
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