Eastern Green Link 2 moves up a gear using low carbon fuel for material handling trucks

Eastern Green Link 2 moves up a gear using low carbon fuel for material handling trucks

Eastern Green Link 2 (EGL2) is the UK’s single largest electricity transmission project, providing enough electricity to power two million homes. The project is accelerating its sustainability efforts by adopting Hydrogenated Vegetable Oil (HVO) fuel for material handling trucks in Yorkshire.  HVO, a low-carbon biofuel made from waste vegetable oils, will be used at the Wren Hall converter station site in North Yorkshire, where 20-tonne constru…

ZENFreight announces new fleet member

ZENFreight has announced that John G Russell (Transport) Ltd is joining its consortium to trial hydrogen fuel cell (HFCEV) and battery electric HGVs. The project, part of the UK Government’s Zero Emission HGV and Infrastructure Demonstrator (ZEHID) Programme, is led by Dynamon, with John G Russell Transport (Russell) taking three MAN battery electric HGVs and three hydrogen-electric Scania HFCEVs. The 6 by 2 configuration will be one of the firs…

John G Russell joins ZENFreight to trial hydrogen and electric HGVs

John G Russell (Transport) Ltd (Russell) is to begin trialing hydrogen fuel cell (HFCEV) and battery-electric HGVs as part of ZENFreight, a subsidiary of the UK government’s Zero Emission HGV and Infrastructure Demonstrator (ZEHID) programme. Russell will trial three MAN battery-electric HGVs and three hydrogen-electric Scania HFCEVs in a six-by-two configuration – the first to be trialed in this configuration in the UK. Russell will also be par…

John G Russell (Transport) Joins ZenFreight Programme

Glasgow-based multimodal operator John G Russell (Transport) will run battery electric and hydrogen fuel-cell powered trucks as it joins the ZenFreight consortium, writes Peter Brown. It will run three MAN battery electric HGVs and three hydrogen-electric Scania HFCEVs, which in a 6×2 configuration and will be the first of their kind to be trialled in the UK. ZenFreight is part of the UK Government’s Zero Emission HGV and Infrastructure Demonstr…