Going big, and bigger-trend for China’s fuel cell stack
Just in the first 9 month of 2022, a number of China’s fuel cell system producers have announced the debut of their 200 kw+ hydrogen fuel cell stack (single stack), and some companies have even notified their clients that bigger fuel cell stack (300 kw single stack) would be available by the end of 2022.
Now half of China’s leading fuel cell system producers have 200 kw+ fuel cell stacks, including REFIRE, Sino-Synergy, SinoHytec and HYNOVATION. And not only these fuel cell stacks become more powerful, they are also more durable as well. Parameter shows some of these stacks have 30,000 hour or greater lifetime.
Thanks to the implement of national subsidy policies for hydrogen fuel cell vehicles since 2021 (see An brief introduction of China’s subsidy policy for hydrogen fuel cell vehicles), commercial vehicles, particularly heavy duty trucks are in favor at China’s market. So that’s no wonder fuel cell system producers should have their stacks more powerful to show their competitiveness in this area.