2025年3月10日 · ScotRail has begun an innovative trial using Hydrotreated Vegetable Oil (HVO) as an alternative to diesel fuel in one of its Class 156 trains.The trial, which began on 19 February and will run for 12 weeks at ScotRail’s Corkerhill Depot, is being delivered in partnership with Angel Trains and Crown Oil.If the trail is successful HVO could offer a step towards reducing greenhouse gas ...

4 天之前 · ScotRail has begun trialling Hydrotreated Vegetable Oil (HVO) as an alternative to diesel in one of its Class 156 train units.

2025年3月14日 · The trial, which began on February 19, has seen one of the rail operator’s passenger trains fuelled with hydrotreated vegetable oil (HVO) rather than the usual diesel. ScotRail said if the 12-week trial is successful, HVO could be used as a “transition fuel” while carbon-neutral fuels like green hydrogen become more readily available.

2023年7月27日 · HVO fuel is made almost entirely from used cooking oils and can reduce greenhouse gas emissions by up to 90% and air particulates by 85%. A fossil free drop-in alternative to conventional diesel fuel, HVO contains few impurities and burns cleanly.

5 天之前 · ScotRail has launched a trial to test hydrotreated vegetable oil (HVO) as a sustainable alternative to diesel in one of its Class 156 trains. The trial, which commenced in February, is set to run ...

2025年2月28日 · GB Railfreight (GBRf) has signed a twelve-month agreement with Drax to use HVO for its rail freight services. The 1,800 tonne trains were previously hauled by locomotives running on traditional diesel fuel. HVO has proved a viable alternative to fossil-derived fuel, and has been trialled by other UK operators. New fuel, new locomotives

5 天之前 · ScotRail has launched a 12-week trial that will see it use Hydrotreated Vegetable Oil (HVO) made from agricultural and food production waste as an alternative to diesel fuel in one of its two ...

2023年7月27日 · Passenger trains are being fuelled by vegetable oil for the first time in the UK, a train operator has said. Chiltern Railways began using hydrotreated vegetable oil (HVO) to …

2025年2月24日 · From the perspective of DB, the company says, HVO is the cheapest and fastest way to reduce CO2 emissions in the rail freight sector. To soften that obstacle, Italy is giving rail companies a 50 cent euro subsidy per litre for the use of HVO.

2023年7月28日 · Train operator Chiltern Railways has launched vegetable oil powered trains on its network – the first instance of Hydrotreated Vegetable Oil (HVO) being used in passenger service in the UK.