How Anglo American Developed the World’s Biggest Hydrogen-Fueled Truck

[Stay on top of transportation news: Get TTNews in your inbox.]Four years ago, Anglo American Plc couldn’t find any industry partners to support its idea of replacing open-pit mining’s monster diesel trucks with climate-friendly, green hydrogen-fueled vehicles.After investing as much as $70 million on its own to back the concept, the global miner revealed last week a new 220-ton vehicle capable of carrying about 290 tons of ore without producing global warming emissions in the process.“It’s fair to say our desire to drive this was ahead of a lot of the industry’s ambitions,” Tony O’Neill, Anglo’s technical director, said in an interview at Mogalakwena, South Africa, the world’s biggest open-cast platinum mine, on May 6. “When it came down to timing we were pretty much alone.”Anglo American, like rivals such as Glencore Plc and Rio Tinto Group, are feeling…

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