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Joint agreement targets development and supply of high-efficiency hydrogen
fuel cell systems to the Fiat Group and automotive OEMs around the world
MILAN and CAMBRIDGE, Mass., Dec. 1 /PRNewswire/ -- Nuvera Fuel Cells, a
leading designer, developer and manufacturer of fuel cell power systems, today
announced it reached a multi-year agreement with Fiat Powertrain Technologies
and Centro Ricerche Fiat to research and develop a high-efficiency hydrogen
fuel cell propulsion system for fuel cell vehicles. Together, the partners
will be the exclusive supplier of the new fuel cell powertrain to the Fiat
Group, which includes Fiat Auto, IVECO, and Case New Holland. The partnership
shall also be open to discuss possible supplies to OEMs worldwide.
The goal of this wide-reaching program is to enable Nuvera, Fiat
Powertrain Technologies and Centro Ricerche Fiat to further develop a fuel
cell powertrain system that will allow automakers to develop a technically,
economically and environmentally viable fuel cell vehicle in the near future.
The system will combine the recently released, highly advanced Nuvera
Andromeda II stack with the specific plant and control system developed by
Fiat Powertrain Technologies and Centro Ricerche Fiat which includes all
necessary auxiliaries satisfying automotive standards, including a low
pressure and high efficiency air compressor.
According to Centro Ricerche Fiat and Fiat Powertrain Technologies
technical experience, and after several years of work with Nuvera and
benchmarking with other fuel cell stack providers, the Andromeda II technology
represents one of the most promising fuel cell stacks available today. This
technology, along with Nuvera's low cost, non-coated metallic stack
architecture and Centro Ricerche Fiat's simplified plant architecture, would
allow OEMs to introduce viable fuel cell vehicles more quickly than once
thought possible.
Centro Ricerche Fiat underlines that the hydrogen fuel cell propulsion
system has been developed with an air delivery system that was specifically
designed to match the requirements of the fuel cell stack. By designing the
air system completely around the fuel cell stack, the purpose-built compressor
delivers exactly what the fuel cell system requires across the entire
operating range, allowing the highest efficiency and lowest cost, compared to
other currently available compressor technologies.
"This is a major milestone for Nuvera and the future of fuel cell
vehicles," said C. Roberto Cordaro, President and CEO of Nuvera Fuel Cells.
"This new development, which further demonstrates Nuvera's leadership in
transportation fuel cells, will allow Nuvera to provide both fuel cell stacks
and entire fuel cell systems to our partners and potential customers to help
accelerate the development -- and introduction -- of fuel cell vehicles."
The new fuel cell system operates at low pressure and without external
humidification, which allows simplification of the plant's architecture. The
reduction in parts also reduces parasitic power losses and simplifies the
control of the system, resulting in higher efficiency and enhanced
reliability.
Nuvera Fuel Cells
Nuvera Fuel Cells (http://www.nuvera.com) is a global leader in the
development and advancement of multi-fuel processing and fuel cell technology.
With offices located in Italy and the USA, Nuvera is committed to advancing
the commercialization of hydrogen fuel cell power modules for industrial
vehicles and equipment and stationary applications, natural gas fuel cell
power systems for cogeneration applications, and on-board gasoline fuel
processors and fuel cell stacks for automotive applications. Nuvera Fuel Cells
Europe is ISO 9001:2000 certified for "Research, Development, Design,
Production and Servicing of Fuel Cell Stacks and Fuel Cell Systems."
Fiat Powertrain Technologies
Fiat Powertrain Technologies, a new industrial sector of the Fiat Group
(http://www.fiatgroup.com), integrates all the Group's design, manufacturing
and innovation capabilities and expertise in engines and transmissions -- a
new business open to the external world. The new company operates in 12
countries with 26 manufacturing plants and 16 research and development centers
and combines the resources, employees and activities of Fiat Auto Powertrain,
Iveco Powertrain, Magneti Marelli Powertrain, Iveco Motoren Forschung and the
Powertrain research activities of the Fiat Research Center and Elasis. It
employs over 23 thousand employees.
Centro Ricerche Fiat
Centro Ricerche Fiat (http://www.crf.it) was founded in 1976 as an
Engineering Centre providing R&D services, at first, to each of the different
companies within the Fiat Group and, at a second stage, also to automotive
suppliers, companies from other sectors of industry, and national and
international research agencies. Priority areas of R&D at CRF include Energy
and the Environment, Safety and Well-Being, and Sustainable Growth. Its core
competence is centered on land transportation: advanced vehicles and
propulsion systems, innovative components with associated manufacturing
processes and methodologies for product development. CRF, which currently has
approximately 950 employees, is organized in the following principal technical
divisions: Engines, Vehicles, and Technologies.
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