Veteran plant journalist Peter Haddock is with us this month to help make sense of the rapidly changing landscape of construction machinery and sustainability. Should we go all in on electrification?Is hydrogen coming on stream anytime soon? What’s the current state of enabling technology?
Peter shares examples of how businesses including Flannery Plant Hire, L Lynch Plant Hire & Haulage, Perkins Engines Company Limited, LiuGong Europe, Xwatch Safety Solutions part of Hexagon Leica Geosystems part of Hexagon and ZQuip from Moog Construction are pushing technology and skills development forward.
Peter also discusses the future with Hydrogen; talking about the fuel and explaining the work JCB is doing on JCB Hydrogen machines and the infrastructure needed to make the fuel work.
A very well done and informative podcast, thank you.
If pure battery is not enough for the application then at least make everything plug-in-hybrid. No idling, ever, and charge up when possible. Maybe off-grid sites can get a container with 2-3 MWh battery to charge up the machinery on site? Might even have it on an electric truck and when it runs out it can drive to a charging station and charge back up, maybe best done over night.