Friday Fallback

• JCB is investing £100 million on a project to produce super-efficient hydrogen engines, the company announced.

A team of 100 engineers is already working on the exciting development with the recruitment of up to 50 more engineers under way as JCB targets the end of 2022 for the first machines to be available for sale to customers.

The dual fuel hydrogen truck will be tested for Delhaize supermarket deliveries from November. The truck has the potential to reduce CO₂ emissions by up to 80%. After the test phase of 12 months, it will be determined how the technology developed by CMB.TECH can be further rolled out in the 500 truck Van Moer Logistics fleet.

Through its IFPEN Transports Energie Carnot Institute, IFP Energies nouvelles (IFPEN) has just commissioned a new 210 kW test bench for fuel-cell systems on its site in Lyon.

• HRS signs new strategic partnership with Hype, the first hydrogen taxi network
• Deployment of 8 HRS stations 6 of which have a capacity of 1,000 kg/day for Hype’s hydrogen infrastructure

“The water will be the coal of the future,” said District President Marc Mächler at the Kubel hydropower plant in the Sitter Gorge.

He was quoting the French writer Jules Verne, who said that as early as 1870. Well, around 150 years later, the dream is also becoming a reality in Eastern Switzerland: the groundbreaking ceremony began with the construction of a plant for the production of hydrogen from electricity from the St.Gallen power plant. 

Helgoland / Essen / Hamburg / Erlangen / Kassel / Bremen — The future begins now: With up to 12.48 million euros in funding from the Federal Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF), the research and development work in the TransHyDE project Helgoland is entering the active phase.