Closed consultation

Enabling road use of hydrogen-powered non-road mobile machinery

This was published under the 2022 to 2024 Sunak Conservative government

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Summary

Seeking views on whether hydrogen-powered non-road mobile machinery (NRMM) should be legally permitted to operate on roads.

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Consultation description

Non-road mobile machinery (NRMM) is a broad category that includes vehicles such as, but not limited to, diggers, mobile cranes and other construction machinery.

NRMM manufacturers have identified hydrogen as a potential means of decarbonising parts of the NRMM sector where battery electric power is not practical.

Hydrogen-powered NRMM cannot currently be used on public roads without an exemption, known as a vehicle special order (VSO), which manufacturers have highlighted as a barrier to the wider uptake of low emission and zero emission NRMM.

In this consultation, we are seeking your views on our approach to address this regulatory barrier.

We wish to restrict the scope of the amendment to machinery originally designed to run on hydrogen and capable of being driven on the road.

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Published 27 March 2024

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