How a major contractor is experimenting with injecting hydrogen into diesel engines

The UK arm of Netherlands-based contracting giant BAM is leading a new project that will see it run excavators specially adapted to inject hydrogen into the diesel engines of conventional excavators.

The trial, which has received nearly £5 million (€5.8 million) in funding from the UK government’s Department for Energy Security & Net Zero, is aimed at reducing carbon emissions from existing diesel off-highway machines prior to alternative forms of energy generation become more mainstream.