Seonghoon Woo, CEO of Amogy, joined Cheddar News to discuss its ammonia-powered, zero-emission semi-truck in an effort to de-carbonize transportation.

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Let's turn now to another startup, shaking things up, sustainable energy startup. Emoji offers an ammonia based fuel that's emission free. The company is hoping this eco friendly fuel will help to give transportation a carbon free future? In january. Emoji announced the successful testing of what it says is the world's first ammonia powered zero emission semi truck. The startup says the test further proves ammonia to be viable and sustainable renewable energy source for that heavy duty trucking industry. Ammonia based energy systems has also been used to successfully power a drone and a heavy duty tractor joining us. Now, Song Hyun Woo. Chairman Ceo and co founder Sang Hoon. Welcome to the show. Thank you so much for being here today. Thank you for having me of course. Can you share more details about this ammonia based fuel? Why the recent semi truck testing is such a significant milestone for your company? Yeah, for sure. I mean the recent testing of the semi tra classic vehicle was significant validation of the company. Technology's scalability. So as you mentioned, the company offers technology solutions which confers ammonia to power so you can use ammonia as a fuel by adopting a resolution. So we initially press Daniel technology in a platform that drone as well as tractor last year. And this year the semi truck is three times bigger than the tractor we demonstrated last year, probably 20 times bigger than the drone. So it simply means that this technology is scalable and the valuable for the commercial vehicle active drug with ammonia gas being highly toxic. Can you explain to me and our viewers why it's safe, why it's viable and of course a clean option for renewable energy. Yeah, that's a really good question. And ammonia is certainly toxic. I wouldn't say ammonia is a safe gas. But instead if you look at some area like the agricultural industries or shipping industry and Monje has already been adopted as the industry use cases such as fertilizer for all has been used in some of the industry's for longer than actually about a century. So I mean from my perspective, I don't envision ammonia to become viable field for the consumer type of application. However, commercial offerings such as trucking or the shipping ammonia can really play an important role in galvanizing the heavy transportation. I'm so glad you mentioned that because we all know heavy duty trucking has proven to be challenging when it comes to decarbonization and batteries don't offer enough power for trucks. And we see that in ships as well. So how how can your company's ammonia powered system help with the industry's transition away from diesel powered engines which of course most trucks to run on. Yeah, exactly. As you noted, I mean, the heavy industry, heavy transportation calls for a massive amount of greenhouse gasses every year. But we have the battery technology. We also have hydrogen technology but both are not really uh able to replace the existing detail based for prison system. But unlike these two options, ammonia really presents maybe the highest energy density among the potential clean energies. But people have talked about using ammonia for a while. But technology converting ammonia power has really been missing in those industries. So energy is presenting the technology converting ammonia power for the first time. And we have also demonstrated technology and several different platforms. And we are really proud to enable the use of the ammonia as fuel by offering this kind of unique technology. Well, yeah, this is certainly unique technology. We hope you come back to discuss song. Who knew Chairman Ceo and co founder of Thank you so much.