Agricultural and construction equipment maker JCB has developed the industry’s first mobile hydrogen refueller to refuel hydrogen-powered vehicles onsite.
About 97 percent of construction machines have fuel delivered to the site while working.
JCB chair Lord Bamford, who is leading JCB’s hydrogen project, said the company has fielded refuelling questions since it became the first construction equipment company to unveil hydrogen-powered machines.
“Well now we have an answer with our new mobile hydrogen refuelling system, which allows hydrogen to be taken from on-site tube trailers and distributed to machines by our refueller as they work on the job site. This is no different to today when diesel is taken in bowsers to refuel machines.
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“Fossil fuels are not the future and hydrogen is the practical solution to powering our machines in the decades to come. Our British engineers are doing a fantastic job in developing this technology and there are many more exciting developments to come,” he said.
A team of 100 engineers is working on the project. The first hydrogen powered machine to be unveiled was a JCB backhoe loader followed, a year ago, by a Loadall telescopic handler.
JCB has manufactured engines since 2004, producing them at plants in Derbyshire, United Kingdom, and in Delhi, India.
