By the end of this year, the company will have more than 1,500 fuel-cell taxis and “several hundred” battery-electric taxis in Paris, where it has been operating for more than eight years.
The company is also planning to open six green-hydrogen refuelling stations in and near the French capital this year — and plans to deploy the same infrastructure around Brussels too.
However, it is yet to announce specific numbers for its hydrogen taxis or filling station plans in the Belgian capital — nor when the roll-outs will begin.
But it has said that its Brussels venture is being launched with hydrogen taxis adapted for wheelchair users — Peugeot e-Expert and Citroën ë-Jumpy fuel-cell vans that have been converted to seat six passengers without a wheelchair, or five passengers including one in a wheelchair.
It will also use Toyota Mirai and Hyundai Nexo fuel-cell cars as taxis in Brussels. The Belgian capital will only allow zero-emission taxis on its streets from 1 January 2025.
Hype also aims to launch new hydrogen-taxi networks in 16 cities and regions by the end of 2026, starting in Brussels and followed by (in no particular order) Le Mans, Bordeaux, Barcelona, Madrid, Lisbon and Porto to form “an Atlantic-Mediterranean hydrogen corridor” that includes green hydrogen filling stations.
