Mercedes hints during C as well as E-Class fuel-cell vehicles
Mercedes has announced plans to setup the new fuel-cell manufacture facility in Burnaby, Canada.
Construction will proceed immediately as well as everything should be accomplished by early 2012. Following a little primary contrast, the plant will proceed producing fuel-cells in 2013.
According to Prof. Herbert Kohler, Head of e-Drive and Future Mobility, “To connect the heading place in a margin of pick drive systems, we have been ensuring approach entrance to a key technologies concerned. Following the one after another growth of battery expertise together with Accumotive GmbH in Germany, this decision is a serve, vital step upon a highway to emission-free driving.”
More importantly, a association hinted the “next-generation fuel-cell smoke-stack will also be befitting for use in sedans such as the Mercedes-Benz C-Class or E-Class.” While that’s not a acknowledgment of manufacture, it’s a flattering clever denote that Mercedes believes fuel-cell record is ready for a budding time.
Source: Mercedes-Benz
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Preparation for a subsequent generation of fuel cell drive systems: Mercedes-Benz to setup the own production of fuel cell stacks in Canada
Vancouver/Stuttgart – Mercedes-Benz voiced today which it will set up its own production of fuel cell stacks in Canada. By you do so, a company will bundle the development and production for a single of a key components of fuel cell powered electric vehicles in Vancouver, British Columbia.
Prof. Herbert Kohler, Head of e-Drive as well as Future Mobility: “To connect our leading position in a margin of pick drive systems, we have been ensuring approach entrance to a pass technologies concerned. Following the systematic growth of battery imagination together with Accumotive GmbH in Germany, this decision is a further, vital step upon the highway to emission-free moving.”
Günter Walz, Vice President Planning general cooperations Mercedes-Benz Cars, said “The preference was done to emanate as well as setup a brand new production trickery underneath a protection of Mercedes-Benz Canada as the judicious next step of Daimler’s successful team-work with partners in Vancouver. In February 2008, the “Automotive Fuel Cell Cooperation” (AFCC) in Burnaby, easterly of Vancouver, was founded as the joint try in between Daimler (50.1%), Ford (30%) as well as Ballard (19.9%). This is where a fuel cell stack, now used in a stream Mercedes-Benz B-Class F-CELL and the Citaro FuelCell Hybrid city bus, was developed.
The target of this brand new operation is to cover a complete value sequence, from materials research as well as development of the production record for the large-scale manufacture.
Construction of a trickery designed for the production of stacks for fuel cell vehicles will begin right away in the 2000 block metre space in the new Burnaby location. Completion of a production facilities is scheduled for early 2012. Following the graduated test and commissioning proviso, small-series production of next-generation fuel cell stacks will commence as of 2013. Apart from delivering a aloft outlay and potency, these fuel cell stacks surpass with their compact building a whole. This subsequent generation fuel cell smoke-stack will additionally be befitting for make use of in sedans such as a Mercedes-Benz C-Class or E-Class.
Since 2009, Mercedes-Benz produces a fuel cell powered B-Class F-CELL under large-scale production conditions. These have been currently being driven upon a day-to-day basis by clientele in Europe and a USA. In addition, three B-Class F-CELL models are roving 30,000 kilometres around the globe in a “Mercedes -Benz F-CELL World Drive” to demonstrate a high technical majority of fuel cell record. At a same time, this round-the-world tour is an interest to all concerned parties in attention and politics to accelerate the building a whole of a necessary network of hydrogen fueling stations.
125 years after a invention of a vehicle, Daimler is taking a lead role in moulding the prospect of mobility. Its drive strategy focuses on three pass growth areas: firstly, optimization of vehicles with high-tech internal explosion engines, secondly, further improvements in potency with hybridization as well as thirdly, emission-free driving with batteries or the fuel cell. These technologies offer tailor-made solutions for the far-reaching variety of client requirements, and thus provide a basement for a particular mobility of a prospect.
