On the current ACT Expo in Lengthy Seashore, California, Cummins debuted its 15-liter hydrogen engine. This engine is constructed on Cummins’ new fuel-agnostic platform, the place beneath the top gasket every gasoline kind’s engine has largely related parts, and above the top gasket, every has totally different parts for various gasoline varieties.
This model, with anticipated full manufacturing in 2027, pairs with clear, zero-carbon hydrogen gasoline, a key enabler of Cummins’ technique to go additional sooner to assist clients cut back greenhouse fuel (GHG) emissions.
We’ve established vital targets as a part of our PLANET 2050 sustainability technique, together with a goal of zero emissions. Decreasing well-to-wheels carbon emissions requires innovation of each power sources and energy options. Whereas use circumstances for battery electrical and gasoline cell electrical powertrains are promising, the pairing of inexperienced hydrogen within the confirmed expertise of inner combustion engines offers an necessary complement to future zero emissions options.
—Srikanth Padmanabhan, President, Engine Enterprise, Cummins Inc.
Cummins introduced the testing of hydrogen inner combustion (ICE) expertise in July 2021, and has made spectacular early outcomes, already reaching manufacturing energy and torque targets (greater than 810 ft-lb torque and 290 hp from the medium-duty engine). Extra testing on Cummins’ extra superior prototypes will start quickly. With Cummins’ vital international manufacturing footprint, the corporate can rapidly scale manufacturing.
The business wants a number of options to satisfy the wants of all on- and off-highway clients and all purposes contemplating the variation in obligation cycles and working environments, the corporate stated.
The engine will likely be a zero-carbon fueled resolution for a number of markets. Cummins intends to provide hydrogen inner combustion engines in each the 15-liter and 6.7-liter displacements, believing that these engines allow the business to take motion and cut back GHG emissions but this decade, in the end accelerating carbon discount.
Working with Cummins to navigate the journey to zero emissions means working with an skilled associate that has the best data, instruments, and sources to make sure a clean transition. Our clients are responding favorably to this sensible expertise. These engines seem like engines, they sound like engines, and match the place engines usually match.
—Jim Nebergall, Normal Manger, Hydrogen Engines at Cummins Inc.
Hydrogen inner combustion engines use zero-carbon gasoline at a decrease preliminary value of a gasoline cell or battery electrical car with little modification to in the present day’s autos. Accelerated market adoption of hydrogen engine powered autos is pushed by the expertise’s excessive expertise maturity, low preliminary value, prolonged car vary, quick fueling, powertrain set up commonality, and end-user familiarity.
