German outstanding automobile companies and technology companies jointly develop fuel cells

According to foreign media reports, the German government has organized leading companies in the country's automotive industry to form a 60 million euro, three-year alliance to study the mass production of automotive fuel cell stacks. The alliance is called "AutoStack-Industrie" and is invested by the German Federal Ministry of Transport and Digital Infrastructure (BMVI), with an investment of 21.3 million euros in the first year.

The "AutoStack-Industrie" alliance is a joint initiative of German automakers and suppliers to provide technical, economic and scientific support for the commercial introduction of fuel cell vehicles in Germany and Europe by 2020. The alliance is led by BMW and consists of leading companies in the fields of automotive and fuel cell technology in Germany, including BMW, Daimler, Dana, Ford Research and Innovation Center, Freudenberg High Performance Materials, Greenerity, NuCellSys, fuel cell company PowerCell Sweden AB, Umicore, Volkswagen Group and the Baden-Württemberg Solar and Hydrogen Research Center.

Norbert Barthle, deputy minister of the German Federal Ministry of Transport and Digital Infrastructure, said that emission-free electric drive is an important option for future cars and hydrogen cars as a driving force, and is a supplement to battery cars. Germany intends to build its own fuel cell production facilities.

Currently, fuel cell stacks are mainly assembled manually. Automated assembly saves time and costs and is therefore a prerequisite for the widespread market launch of fuel cell vehicles. The partners in the alliance will create a common set of production specifications, produce the battery stacks and design the components according to this specification, and then build the battery stack prototype. At the same time, the alliance members are also studying the construction of a flexible factory with a target production capacity of 30,000 fuel cell stacks per year.

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