SinoHytec Opens China’s First Automated Hydrogen Fuel Cell Engine Factory
(Yicai Global) Aug. 28 -- China’s first automated production line for hydrogen fuel cell engines has begun operations. It was built by Beijing SinoHytec Co., which engages in the new energy technology development, in Hebei’s Zhangjiakou Airport Technology Development Zone.
SinoHytec entered into strategic cooperation with Zhangjiakou last year, the Securities Times reported on Aug. 25. Investment in the factory totaled USD150 million (CNY1 billion). The production center, which covers an area of 45 mu (30,000 square meters), can make 10,000 engines annually.
Founded in 2004, SinoHytec was the first Chinese firm to develop hydrogen fuel cell engines, the report said. It has showcased new energy buses at world-class events including the Beijing Olympic Games and the Shanghai World Expo. SinoHytec independently develops engines and relevant systems, and operates the country’s first hydrogen refueling stations for cars.
SinoHytec chose to put its production hub in Zhangjiakou because the city boasts unique resource advantages and is home to the country’s first wind-to-hydrogen project, said Song Haiying, the group’s deputy general manager. Zhangjiakou is also a key new energy base in China and was approved by the State Council as a renewable energy demonstration zone.
Hydrogen fuel cells will be commercialized in the coming years, said Ouyang Minggao, deputy director of the Academic Committee of Tsinghua University. The number of fuel cell electric vehicles will increase from hundreds to thousands in China, Ouyang said.
Zhangjiakou and Beijing will host the Winter Olympics in 2022 and by then, SinoHytec will build a comprehensive system for using hydrogen as a fuel in Zhangjiakou and construct an expressway with hydrogen refueling stations for cars between the two cities, the report said...snip source: https://www.yicaiglobal.com/news/sin...engine-factory
Related: Hydrogen fuel cell passenger cars to be produced in Zhangjiakou to serve 2022 Winter Olympics
Hydrogen fuel cell passenger cars will be produced in Zhangjiakou City, Hebei province, to serve the 2022 Winter Olympics to be jointly hosted by the city with Beijing, as an automatic production line of hydrogen fuel cell engines recently went operation, Beijing Daily reported on Sept. 1.
The production base established with an investment of 1 billion RMB ($152 million) by Beijing SinoHytec Co., Ltd is projected to manufacture 10,000 vehicles a year after construction of all production lines is completed in 2018.
The hydrogen fuel cell vehicle, with a maximum range of 500 kilometers, can be started at even 30 degrees Celsius below zero, and can be stored at even lower temperatures, which means the vehicles are suitable for the winter weather in Zhangjiakou.
Li Jianqiu, a professor at Tsinghua University, noted that, compared with traditional vehicles that consumes 6 to 8 liters of gasoline every 100 kilometers at a cost of 40 to 50 RMB, the hydrogen fuel cell vehicle consumes only 1 kilogram of hydrogen at a cost of 30 RMB...snip more: http://en.people.cn/n3/2017/0902/c90000-9263490.html
And in Japan: Fukushima Prefecture high on hydrogen for greener society.
NEDO’s planned plant is a core project intended to promote use of the gas and nurture relevant industries to establish a futuristic hydrogen society in Fukushima Prefecture. The plant will produce hydrogen using renewable energy...
http://www.asahi.com/ajw/articles/AJ201708290001.html
Korea: Hanwha Energy Jointly to Build 50 MW Hydrogen Fuel Cell Power Plant.
The hydrogen fuel cell power plant to be housed in the industrial complex is the first and largest one of its kind in the world.
http://www.businesskorea.co.kr/engli...50-mw-hydrogen
And so it begins!
Most Americans have no idea WTF a fuel cell is, but now they can watch while the Chinese make this tech affordable, like they have done with solar panels. Meanwhile, the US will be dropping more bombs and sending more soldiers to Afghanistan, and seemingly nothing at all can be done to stop another trillion more dollars being wasted. What a disgrace.
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