HUBZERONET S.R.L. Member

HubZeroNet Vision
“To create a FCaaS (Fuel Card as a Service) tool that helps Energy Companies, Fuel Card Suppliers and
Transport Companies to decarbonize and reach NetZero by contributing to a greener environment”

”Connecting Fuel Cards to LNG, bioLNG, CNG, bioCNG and H2 stations to accelerate decarbonising of the transport sector”

The purpose of HubZeroNet and the problems it solves
HubZeroNet is a platform that facilitates developing the non-traditional fuels market for transport, such as
bioLNG and Hydrogen (as soon as steadily available), by accelerating the connection of supply and demand.

HubZeroNet service is highly relevant for Cards Suppliers’ ambitions in road transport in order for their
Fuel Card to have access to a wide Network of these alternative Energies, because:
- The LNG/bioLNG network in any Market is highly fragmented with many single sites and few branded ones.
- LNG/bioLNG is a quick and readily available fix to decarbonise fleets driving growth in demand from transport
Companies and a need for network coverage for fuel card issuers.
- Fuel Cards wanting to cater for this demand, securing and growing their customer base, must provide
access to a wide network
- Today, any LNG/bioLNG truck driving across Europe, or even a single country such as Italy, needs at least 7-8
different fuel cards enabled for this fuel.
- The card company providing the greatest convenience deriving from a wide network access (joined by a
competitive commercial offer) is substantially differentiating itself from competition.
- Few fuel card companies have the tools and resources to contract and connect the highly fragmented
LNG/bioLNG network and own branded networks or existing card acceptance partnerships don’t suffice to
provide a strong network proposition in LNG.
- The process of contracting and connecting LNG/bioLNG sites can be outsourced and addressed by working with
a single aggregator service entity which equals only one third party network setup

Italy the first European Market to conquer fast
- The Italian LNG market, driven by medium to large network operators, has seen an impressive development reaching a total of 120 filling stations with another 15-20 in the pipeline making it the number one market in Europe.
- The 2020 LNG consumption has been nearly 80KT with 2023 projections pre-covid being double that.
- Given the availability of sites on key corridors, transport companies have already 4000 LNG trucks in circulation.
- HubZeroNet is well connected with the main independent network operators, LNG/bioLNG suppliers, and works with an EPC company leader in the construction of LNG/CNG stations.
- HubZeroNet foresees to connect the first 25-30 sites by Q4 2021 and can influence the building of new ones, subject to Card Suppliers’ needs.
- HubZeroNet partnered up with Snam the Eurpean largest gas Company in terms of push the development and utilizazion of bioLNG produced by this Partner

The role of HubZeroNet in the altenrative fuels ecosystem
HubZeroNet takes the role of a business development partner on the back of a technological cards enablement.
By entering into commercial agreements with network operators and making them technically available to the Fuel Card, HubZeroNet can make European markets easily accessible and commercially attractive to our Partners
Cards Suppliers will only have to deal with one business partner rather than a large set of small network operators, in line with its third party network approach and restrictions. The only thing required is for Card Supplier and HubZeroNet to connect host to host via VPN connection to enable the transaction handling.
From there HubZeroNet acts as a single third party network to Card Supplier, allowing for online real time authorisation and transaction settlement on a network of sites selected by the Partner

The benefits of this goes all to Transport Comapnies having LNG trucks in their fleet who, by using H0N bioLNG, are able to dramatically reduce their CO2 emissions

The plan is to replicate the same model which has been implemented in Italy. Germany is going to be the next Country and then India, Egypt, ect. Always by partnering up with large (bio)gas suppliers who can guarantee the availability of the product

The Transportation sector is related to circa 15% of the CO2 World emissions. Solution will be a mix of alternative fuels for sure, there is no single solution which can solve it all but cetainly bioLNG and greenHydrogen (as soon as it will be steadily available) will play a big part in this journey and HubZeroNet wants to bew in the front line to drive toward this direction

As we so during 2022 fossil gas reached amazing high price and thanks to the availability of bioLNG HubZeroNet was capable to mitigate this impact as bioLNG is detached from the fossil LNG price dynamics

HubZeroNet formally certifiy the reduction of COs through a certificate that is issued each month for each Transport Company using bioLNG (see attached example for only 1000kg bioLNG)