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Simon Dowson

Simon Dowson

Director of Motorsport Special Projects at Prodrive and Race Team Principal for JCB's hydrogen-powered Hydromax land speed record program at the Bonneville Salt Flats.

Aug 21, 2026

speaker_0HOST
4:27
So h- how does JCB's tech, uh, differ from any- everything else that's on the market right now?
4:36
Um, I think from a technology perspective really they're, they're trying to look at it from a...
4:42
Obviously construction pieces of equipment, they're not huge volumes, so they're trying to develop technology that is cost-effective for their equipment and their customers more importantly.
4:54
Obviously as you go through onto the construction sites, there isn't electrical infrastructure to put there, so EVs are not so good.
5:04
Uh, so to bring in hydrogen gas and, and you know, the consumers are then able to refuel their vehicles easily and operate at zero emissions, then, you know, I think it's more around the, the cost side of things, that they're, they're coming at it in a slightly different way.
speaker_0HOST
5:21
And it's gotten to a point where I- I've heard it said where it's basically a necessity in the, in the UK at this point.
5:28
Uh, it, it is because the, you know, environmentally the e- electrical infrastructure's not there to support too many EVs.
5:36
We're only a small island.

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