Since this 12 months, Wacker Neuson has been providing clients the choice to refill all diesel-driven machines with the choice HVO gas.
With fuels created from hydrotreated vegetable oils (HVO), combustion engines could be operated with an nearly impartial carbon footprint. The gas is manufactured from renewable uncooked supplies and burns with much less emissions. It subsequently has a greater carbon footprint than fossil fuels. With HVO it’s potential to scale back CO2 emissions by 90% in comparison with diesel operation.
All Wacker Neuson development tools and compact machines with a Stage 5 diesel engine produced from September this 12 months are authorised to be used with HVO fuels following EN15940. This consists of excavators, wheel dumpers, wheel loaders and telehandlers, in addition to vibratory plates, rammers, and rollers.
“We take our duty to offer an environmentally-friendly and protected product vary very critically,” says Alexander Greschner, chief gross sales officer of the Wacker Neuson Group. “With the choice to make use of HVO as an alternative of fossil fuels, our clients can enhance their carbon footprint with out nice effort and so they can work in a extra future-oriented method. With this, we’re providing our clients extra flexibility, and as a producer we’re contributing to extra sustainable development websites.”
Nearly all Wacker Neuson compact machines can be initially fueled ex works with HVO from September this 12 months. Because of this, Wacker Neuson is taking a constant step in direction of a extra sustainable future and can also be encouraging clients to take this path.
As there are not any vital variations within the chemical properties between the fuels HVO and diesel, the engine doesn’t necessitate any diversifications. There are additionally no further necessities when it comes to storage or use compared with fossil fuels. Whereas diesel solely has a shelf-life of roughly one 12 months, HVO fuels have a shelf-life of a number of years.
Even throughout use it’s evident that HVO gas doesn’t hurt the engine’s service life, upkeep intervals, or emission conduct. The client doesn’t must determine upon one gas, however can function the identical engine with both pure HVO, an HVO-diesel combination, or proceed to make use of commonplace diesel.
For greater than ten years, Wacker Neuson has been working with electrically powered compact machines and development tools, all the time specializing in the perfect resolution for the shopper with these zero emission merchandise.
With the zero emission sequence, together with excavators, dumpers, wheel loaders and telehandlers, vibratory plates, rammers, and an inside vibrator system for concrete consolidation, it’s potential to function a whole development web site with none direct exhaust emissions.
Wacker Neuson plans to double its vary of zero emission machines throughout the efficiency class as much as 40 kW or as much as 5 tons by 2025; all hand-held development tools can be on supply as battery-powered options by 2030.
