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04/01/2023 Revealed JCBs Hydrogen powered Backhoe Loader with Lee Harper Chief Engineer Electrification
The iconic Backhoe Loader gets the Hydrogen treatment, and this time Peter Haddock gets to fill the tank as JCB takes a combustion approach to Hydrogen fuel usage. This is the third in our series of ‘JCB’s Hydrogen Journey’ from the UK team making it happen.
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04/01/2023 Green Hydrogen is key to delivering Net Zero and future careers
In 2022 the word Hydrogen was everywhere, with key prototype machines launched at Bauma from Liebherr and Hyundai, quickly followed by a special Hydrogen press event from JCB revealing and operating its Hydrogen machines and mobile refuelling solution.
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04/01/2023 Futureworx 2022 Simon Meades of TCP Group on Hydrogen powered solutions for construction sites
Peter Haddock catches up with Simon Meades, hydrogen expert for TCP Group (Taylor Construction Plant Ltd) at Futureworx 2022 to talk about off-grid clean alternative power solutions.
Will 2023 be the year of Hydrogen? Well, JCB certainly has the momentum, as Peter Haddock finds out in what is the second in our series of ‘JCB’s Hydrogen Journey’ from the UK team making it happen. In this latest episode, Peter speaks to Lee Harper, who is the Chief Engineer of Electrification, and he is our new ‘Mr Hydrogen’ as his journey (16 years to date) has been working on both the proven electric range and now the Hydrogen machines.
In this video, he introduces the latest prototype of the Hydrogen Fuel Cell powered excavator, which I saw in operation in the Kevin Quarry last year. Interestingly JCB has made fuel cell technology work, but Lee and the team are not at the stage of putting this solution into mass production. This is due to the challenges the fuel cell approach gives the end user, as we discover in this interview.
But what strikes us with this journey is that a huge amount of energy has already gone into finding out how to build new Hydrogen engines and deliver the fuel to them so they can operate. See the video with Peter and Ryan Ballard of JCB on the Hydrogen Engine here - 
• JCB's new Hydroge... And this is why you will have to follow the series, as in the next episode, we discover how the Hydrogen Backhoe Loader uses a different delivery solution to the Hydrogen engine.
We will also be finding out more about Hydrogen in the coming weeks in a new podcast to be recorded with Hydrogen UK Chief Executive Clare Jackson. This is a subject you can be sure we will be following, and Peter will be reporting on it with great interest, as we believe it will be a game changer for our industry and the environment.
