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Paris Hydrogen Taxi Operator Hype Abandons H2 for BEVs Amid Cost and Supply Crisis
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In Paris, the ultra-fast charging stations seduce the drivers of VTC, more and more of whom are riding in electric power. But for lack of space, the deployment of these terminals in the capital is slower than elsewhere.
The plan was ambitious, but the result seems to have been like waiting. In Paris, a taxi company had to leave this fuel and change its fleet for electric cars...
Paris Hydrogen Taxi Operator Hype Abandons H2 for BEVs Amid Cost and Supply Crisis
French hydrogen taxi operator Hype is pivoting away from hydrogen fuel cell vehicles to battery-electric taxis, citing rising hydrogen costs, infrastructure shortcomings, and the insolvency of electrolyser maker McPhy as key factors behind the decision. Hype, which has operated a hydrogen-powered fleet in Paris since 2015, said the economic environment for hydrogen mobility in the [...] The post Paris Hydrogen Taxi Operator Hype Abandons H2 for …
Within this agreement, the company undertook to expand its portfolio of electrified vehicles, to have a fleet of service of low emissions, to establish strategic collaborations to promote a transport with less environmental impact, to participate actively in the program My Electric Taxi, among other initiatives. Astara takes a new step in the transformation of mobility in our country by participating, again, in the Public Private Agreement for E…
Orly: a hydrogen station a ton-day for Hysetco The hydrogen taxi operator today opened at Orly Airport, south of Paris, a new hydrogen station. It follows the very first station in Ile-de-France opened in 2017. And with a much larger flow rate. Some people may see it as a symbol. 8 years after the opening of a hydrogen station at the same site of Orly (at the time, under Hype's leadership), this inauguration took place in the colours of Hysetco.…
On 18 June 2025, the operator Hype announced the total abandonment of hydrogen for its taxis in Île-de-France. A brutal decision, which questions beyond the mobility sector alone. Because behind this strategic reorientation, it is a whole public policy of clean transport, focused since 2020 on the rise of green hydrogen, which now seems to be broken down. An industrial failure named McPhy Symbol of a tricolor industrial ambition, McPhy was to em…
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