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Enabling road use of hydrogen-powered non-road mobile machinery
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- Department for Transport
- Published
- 27 March 2024
- Last updated
- 8 April 2025 — See all updates
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We have decided to proceed with updating the Road Vehicles (Construction and Use) Regulations 1986 to allow the road use of hydrogen-powered non-road mobile machinery (NRMM) and agricultural machinery.
The consultation outcome includes a summary of responses.
Original consultation
Summary
Seeking views on whether hydrogen-powered non-road mobile machinery (NRMM) should be legally permitted to operate on roads.
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Consultation description
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.
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Consultation description
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.
Ways to respond
Email to:
Write to:
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Updates to this page
Published 27 March 2024
Last updated 8 April 2025
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Enabling road use of hydrogen-powered non-road mobile machinery government response added.
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First published.