TRANSPORTATION TUESDAY: The Hydrogen Fuel Cell Tractor
Posted By Jorge Chapa On March 3, 2009 @ 11:00 am In Green Transportation,TransportationTuesday | 1 Comment
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When we were little, many of us were fascinated with the big machines that make our world go round. Although we may have forgotten about them, New Holland [5] just gave us another reason to reminisce. The recently revealed New Holland NH2 is a tractor based on their T6000 line with one fundamental difference: it’s powered by an emission-free hydrogen fuel cell [5].
While at first this may not seem like a remarkable achievement, the new tractor shows how alternative fuel technologies [6] are making inroads into areas where you would least expect them. The NH2′s fuel cell battery [7] creates no emissions during operation and generates around 106 horsepower. It runs on an electric motor which is powered for roughly 1.5 to 2 hours on a single hydrogen tank. Granted this is not much, but this is still a prototype.
The NH2 is not the first heavy-duty machine [8] to use alternative fuel technologies [9], but it is the first one designed to be put towards commercial use. Testing on the prototype machines will begin soon with an expected release in 3 years.
+ New Holland [5]
Via Farmers Weekly Interactive [10]
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[5] New Holland: http://agriculture.newholland.com/uk/en/WNH/hydrogen/Pages/Default.aspx
[6] alternative fuel technologies: http://www.inhabitat.com/2008/06/03/bmw-hydrogen-car-cleans-the-air/
[7] fuel cell battery: http://www.inhabitat.com/2008/09/17/medis-technology-portable-fuel-cell-charger/
[8] heavy-duty machine: http://www.inhabitat.com/2008/06/17/transportation-tuesday-ges-mega-hybrids/
[9] alternative fuel technologies: http://www.inhabitat.com/2008/04/15/oilgae-the-next-biofuel-from-algae/
[10] Farmers Weekly Interactive: http://www.fwi.co.uk/Articles/2009/02/07/114186/fw-exclusive-new-hollands-fuel-cell-tractor-breaks-cover-in-italy.html
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