QUANTRON and Ballard Power Systems introduce fuel cell powered trucks ready for delivery

Ballard and Quantron AG have been creating gas cell electrical business car platforms in a partnership since September 2021. (Earlier post.) Now the 2 companions have delivered their first gas cell electrical automobiles, combining QUANTRON’s car engineering experience with Ballard’s gas cell know-how.

QUANTRON QLI FCEV gentle truck

The core of the Canadian-German partnership is the mixing of Ballard’s high-performance FCmove gas cell modules in QUANTRON automobiles. These embrace the 44-ton QUANTRON QHM FCEV heavy-duty truck—the present European vary champion with 54 kg H₂ at 700 bar—and the QUANTRON QLI FCEV gentle truck. Each zero-emission automobiles characteristic considerably longer vary and brief refueling time in comparison with battery electrical fashions.

QUANTRON QHM FCEV heavy-duty truck

A notable characteristic of QUANTRON’s design is the entire integration of all gas cell elements into the body construction of the QUANTRON QHM FCEV and the QLI FCEV, which implies that no compromises need to be made when it comes to trailer size and payload in addition to permitting customary bodybuilder build-up constructions as of their diesel counterparts.

We’re extraordinarily proud to have achieved this essential milestone along with Ballard. The collaboration between the engineering groups in Augsburg (Bavaria) and Vancouver (Canada) has been distinctive. We shortened the general course of from feasibility research to supply to 18 months, bringing the QUANTRON QLI FCEV on the highway and in prospects arms in report time. This led to a superior product, the place the gas cell system is optimized for the person car primarily based on buyer use-cases.

—Tim Sautter, Workforce Lead Q-Gentle & Company PM

A European buyer already took supply of the primary 5 items with one unit having achieved 15.000 km in every day operations in a trial with the client.

We take immense pleasure in our accomplishment, having collectively developed market-ready FCEV automobiles. Each Ballard and QUANTRON mastered this in report time. This isn’t solely first to market within the 7.5 t FCEV gentle car phase, however we take the lead within the gas cell know-how market. We’ve got an order and provide pipeline of as much as 100 items.

—Michael Perschke, CEO of Quantron AG