PowerCell’s Chinese subsidiary, PowerCell Fuel Cell (Shanghai), has received an order for an S2 fuel cell stack from an unnamed new Chinese customer.
The company says the order value is “insignificant,” but is the first to be received by the newly-started Chinese subsidiary.
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The stack will be delivered to the customer in February and will be used for testing and validation of PowerCell’s fuel cell technology.
PowerCell Fuel Cell was established in October last year after having received necessary approvals from the Chinese authorities. The company has an office with local employees in Shanghai and is headed by its president ,Yibo Zhao, who has been with PowerCell since 2017.
China has introduced large subsidies for vehicles which have been electrified using fuel cells and is making major efforts within the field of fuel cell technology.
The supplier maintains PowerCell S2 is the only fuel cell stack with PEM (proton exchange membrane) technology in the market which can tolerate high levels of contamination in hydrogen and can be run on both reformate hydrogen and residual hydrogen.
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By GlobalDataSeveral buses equipped with the PowerCell S2 fuel cell stacks have been running in daily field tests in China since last year.
“China is at the forefront of the developments within the fuel cell technology and it is essential for PowerCell to be there and to capture the opportunities presented by the Chinese efforts,” said PowerCell CEO, Per Wassén.
