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The world’s biggest hydrogen fuel cell EV has started work in South Africa

Enlarge / A two-megawatt hydrogen-fueled powerplant, designed and built by First Mode in Seattle, is installed in a haul truck at Anglo American’s platinum mine at Mogalakwena, South Africa. This vehicle is the world’s largest zero-emission truck. (credit: Anglo American) Mining will always be an inherently anti-environment activity to some degree due to the whole […]

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Massive mine truck and a Baja off-road racer both find use for fuel cells

Enlarge / Anglo American and First Mode, among others, are converting a Komatsu 930E truck like this one to be powered by hydrogen fuel cells and batteries rather than diesel engines. (credit: Anglo American) At first glance, an open-pit platinum mine in South Africa and the Baja 1000 off-road race don’t have much in common […]