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

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.