Sustainable Fuel Solutions

Ricardo’s aerospace engineering team is working as part of a UK consortium, led by Cranfield Aerospace Solutions, to deliver the world’s first truly green passenger carrying airline service using hydrogen fuel cell technology.

Ricardo supported a California Fuel Cell Partnership in the assessment of H₂ trucks and fuelling stations.

Ricardo supported Toyota with the development and deployment of one of the most advanced hydrogen fuel cells in transportation, for use in its ‘Beta’ Project Portal 2.0 Class 8 heavy duty zero emissions fuel cell electric truck.

Supporting the development of Toyota’s first hydrogen light commercial vehicle for prototype in the UK.

Ricardo has worked to repower a double decker bus with hydrogen fuel cells to support a zero-emission demonstration on Teesside. The project, in partnership with Stagecoach North East, created a hydrogen fuelled, zero tailpipe concept bus, to support exploration into the feasibility of the production of fleet passenger vehicles for future, sustainable shared mobility. 

Ricardo Strategic Consulting conducted a life cycle assessment study for the Fuels Institute to study the life cycle emissions and total cost of ownership of internal combustion engine (ICE) vehicles and electric vehicles. The study involved an extensive literature review of the research work in this field and a customized life cycle analysis (LCA) model development by Ricardo.

Assessing the Future Market Share of Alternative Fueled Marine Power Systems to 2050

Ricardo undertook an LCA, TCO and practicality analysis to identify the most suitable propulsion technologies able to decarbonise the recreational craft sector​

A client asked Ricardo to conduct a study looking into the current and future market for hydrogen internal combustion engines (H2 ICE), primarily focused on the medium-duty off-highway sector

Ricardo assessed the market and technologies for methanol internal combustion engines for marine propulsion applications.

Developing a user-centric assessment tool for alternative fuels.