In March, Massey Ferguson and five other French companies announced the development of hydrogen storage tanks to be used in tractors and other off-road vehicles.
Hydrogen has more energy density than diesel but is less dense in terms of volumetric energy.
“Hydrogen’s tiny molecules make it prone to leakage, and it must be stored at either extremely high pressure or very low temperatures – both of which demand significant energy input,” says Horizon Educational, which provides science kits and other teaching materials to schools. “This makes efficient hydrogen storage a daunting engineering task.”
The tractor is scheduled to be built in time for demonstrations sometime in 2026.