The FPS Waal, a vessel operated by Future Proof Shipping (FPS) has completed its last inland voyage using a diesel engine, and will now be retrofitted with a system to enable it to run on hydrogen. The retrofit is scheduled to begin this week and will be carried out by the Holland Shipyards Group shipyard [...]
A newly established partnership will see CMB.TECH and Ford Trucks collaborating on the conversion of Ford F-Max trucks to dual-fuel hydrogen trucks at CMB.TECH’s dual-fuel workshop in Antwerp, Belgium. With a view to scaling up the concept, the duo’s first converted trucks are scheduled for delivery in 2023. Drawing on company knowledge, CMB.TECH will be [...]
Lord Bamford says internal combustion engine has a future following climbdown by Brussels Britain must rethink its net zero ban on new petrol and diesel cars after Brussels watered down restrictions across Europe, the chairman of JCB has said. Lord Bamford insisted that “the internal combustion engine certainly has a future”, in comments that will [...]
Ricardo has delivered its hydrogen-fuelled research engine to Cummins and automotive supplier BorgWarner as part of Project BRUNEL. This was partially funded by the Advanced Propulsion Centre (APC). This new engine has been designed to solely burn hydrogen, with no other carbon-emitting fuels. Additionally, the engine can help research teams evaluate a wide variety of [...]
JCB unveiled the 4.8L Ecomax H2 engine for a backhoe loader and telehandler at its UK headquarters yesterday JCB has no doubts, for off-road applications it has chosen the H2 combustion engine, at least above 4/5 tonnes. H2 for JCB sounds good According to the British company, JCB’S £100 million investment in a project to [...]
First of all, what’s a Watt? Many of us are familiar with the term “Watt”, because it is used to describe things like how much electrical energy our lightbulbs, hair dryers, toasters and refrigerators use. A “Watt” is not a unit of energy, however. It is a unit of power. To confuse us, the word “power” means [...]
An enormous engine, the height of three floors, growls loudly at a test centre in Copenhagen. Nearby a team of engineers supervise it from a control room resembling a ship's bridge. Usually such an engine would be propelling a large ship across the sea, but this one is being prepared to take part in a [...]
Greenpeace and Which? welcome move by 10,000 Volkswagen owners for £3,000 in compensation as carmaker faces bill as high as £3.6bn Thousands of British motorists have launched a lawsuit against Volkswagen over the “dieselgate” emissions scandal, in a claim that could end up costing the carmaker billions of pounds. The group of 10,000 VW owners has filed a [...]
Volkswagen’s top executives told staff to cover up emissions cheating in the weeks before the scandal was exposed, the Federal Bureau of Investigation claimed yesterday. The executives ordered the “continued concealment” of the existence of a device that was built into diesel cars to cheat emissions tests, in the knowledge that US regulators were unaware [...]
British Airways flight attendants on board an Airbus A380 “superjumbo” vomited, became “spaced out” and had to use emergency oxygen after suspected “toxic fumes” were detected in the cabin during a long-haul flight, a leaked internal report reveals. At least one crew member became so ill that he curled up on the floor and put [...]
