Since this yr, Wacker Neuson has been providing clients the choice to refill all diesel-driven machines with the choice HVO gasoline.
With fuels created from hydrotreated vegetable oils (HVO), combustion engines could be operated with an nearly impartial carbon footprint. The gasoline is manufactured from renewable uncooked supplies and burns with much less emissions. It due to this fact has a greater carbon footprint than fossil fuels. With HVO it’s potential to cut back CO2 emissions by 90% in comparison with diesel operation.
All Wacker Neuson building gear and compact machines with a Stage 5 diesel engine produced from September this yr are accredited to be used with HVO fuels following EN15940. This contains excavators, wheel dumpers, wheel loaders and telehandlers, in addition to vibratory plates, rammers, and rollers.
“We take our accountability to supply an environmentally-friendly and protected product vary very severely,” 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 they usually 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 building websites.”
Nearly all Wacker Neuson compact machines will probably be initially fueled ex works with HVO from September this yr. 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 aren’t any vital variations within the chemical properties between the fuels HVO and diesel, the engine doesn’t necessitate any variations. There are additionally no extra necessities when it comes to storage or use when put next with fossil fuels. Whereas diesel solely has a shelf-life of roughly one yr, HVO fuels have a shelf-life of a number of years.
Even throughout use it’s evident that HVO gasoline doesn’t hurt the engine’s service life, upkeep intervals, or emission habits. The shopper doesn’t must determine upon one gasoline, 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 building gear, at all times specializing in the perfect resolution for the shopper with these zero emission merchandise.
With the zero emission collection, together with excavators, dumpers, wheel loaders and telehandlers, vibratory plates, rammers, and an inner vibrator system for concrete consolidation, it’s potential to function a whole building 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 building gear will probably be on supply as battery-powered alternate options by 2030.
