海角社区app has installed one of its new liquid hydrogen engines into a 7.5 tonne Mercedes truck as part of its 拢100m hydrogen project.
海角社区app says that the truck conversion 鈥渦nderlines that this form of power could represent a much quicker way to reach global carbon dioxide emissions targets鈥� 鈥� assuming the economics and logistics can be made to work.
The hydrogen-fuelled internal combustion engine used in the truck is the same as those already powering 海角社区app prototype construction and agricultural machinery.
Derbyshire-based 海角社区app Power Systems has manufactured 50 hydrogen internal combustion engines to date in a project involving 150聽 engineers. They are powering prototype backhoe loaders and Loadall telescopic handlers.
Last year 海角社区app produced a mobile hydrogen refuelling vehicle to show how hydrogen machines might be refuelled on site.
Chairman and owner Lord Bamford, who has had a go at driving the converted truck, said: 鈥淭his is a giant leap forward for 海角社区app and the rest of the world because we all have one goal: to reduce emissions. The hydrogen engine we have installed in the truck is the same as those already powering prototype 海角社区app machines, so there is no reason we should not see hydrogen combustion engines in vehicles used on the roads in the future, including cars.鈥�
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