The Issa brothers want to create a network of hydrogen fuel stations to support their investment in a fledgling zero-emission lorry company.
HVS, founded in Glasgow as Hydrogen Vehicle Systems in 2017, is testing and developing a lorry running on hydrogen fuel cells. It has attracted £30m of investment from Mohsin and Zuber Issa, the owners of the EG Group forecourts business and Asda.
It is understood EG Group believes a long-range hydrogen lorry fleet can be serviced by just seven strategically sited hydrogen filling stations on the motorway network: at Dover, on the northern stretches of the M25, in the Midlands and near Bristol, Manchester, Leeds and Glasgow.
Under government mandates, all new HGVs will have to be zero emission by 2040.
