JCB’s take on mobile hydrogen refuelling

Date: 28.11.2022

JCB is providing a quick and easy way for customers to refuel their machines on site

JCB is providing a quick and easy way for customers to refuel their machines on site

JCB is launching a hydrogen refuelling vehicle to provide a quick and easy way for customers to refuel their machines on site

With more than £100 million (NZD 193 million, approx.) already invested in a project to produce super-efficient hydrogen engines, UK agri and construction equipment manufacturer, JCB, has gone a step further by launching a hydrogen refuelling vehicle, saying they are providing a quick and easy way for customers to refuel their machines on site.

JCB chairman, Lord Bamford, who’s leading JCB’s hydrogen project, says, "Since we became the first construction equipment company to unveil machines powered by hydrogen, many have asked how they can be refuelled.

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.

"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 says.

A team of 100 engineers are 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.

The technology went on to be shown in the Green Zone at COP26 in Glasgow as world leaders debated measures to drastically reduce greenhouse emissions.

JCB has manufactured engines since 2004, producing them at plants in Derbyshire and in Delhi, India. Last year JCB celebrated a major milestone with the production of its 750,000th engine.

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