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John Bleasby's latest Inside Innovation column posits the BAUMA exhibition in Munich suggests a hydrogen future for large construction equipment.

rial machines and mining machines, featuring 3,200 exhibitors from over 63 countries and nearly half-a-million visitors.

The company is leveraging its experience with gensets, locomotives and large mining machines to bring alternative power solutions to construction equipment, offering a proprietary range of 48-volt, 300-volt, and 600-volt lithium-ion batteries. Modular design allows flexible configurations across multiple applications, including the potential to reuse and recycle the batteries.

The company says the machine matches the overall performance of its diesel engine counterpart in terms of power output, engine dynamics and response, and does not require a constant energy supply. One major advantage of hydrogen over electric is that refuelling takes just minutes, rather than the hours needed to fully recharge a battery-electric vehicle.

As with long haul trucks, the advantages of hydrogen-powered construction equipment are many: easy refuelling, mechanical similarities with conventional engines, increased power and longer operating range. Furthermore, the infrastructure for internal combustion engines is already in place, meaning an engine converted from conventional fuel to hydrogen is possible at a much lower cost than replacing a fleet with electric.

 

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