Since this 12 months, Wacker Neuson has been providing prospects the choice to replenish all diesel-driven machines with the choice HVO gasoline.
With fuels created from hydrotreated vegetable oils (HVO), combustion engines might be operated with an virtually impartial carbon footprint. The gasoline 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 cut back CO2 emissions by 90% in comparison with diesel operation.
All Wacker Neuson building 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 supply an environmentally-friendly and protected product vary very significantly,” says Alexander Greschner, chief gross sales officer of the Wacker Neuson Group. “With the choice to make use of HVO as a substitute of fossil fuels, our prospects 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 prospects extra flexibility, and as a producer we’re contributing to extra sustainable building websites.”
Virtually all Wacker Neuson compact machines will likely 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 be encouraging prospects 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 variations. 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 gasoline doesn’t hurt the engine’s service life, upkeep intervals, or emission conduct. The shopper doesn’t need to determine upon one gasoline, however can function the identical engine with both pure HVO, an HVO-diesel combination, or proceed to make use of customary diesel.
For greater than ten years, Wacker Neuson has been working with electrically powered compact machines and building tools, at all times specializing in the most effective 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 building website 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 tools will likely be on supply as battery-powered alternate options by 2030.
