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Nuvera, Fiat Powertrain Technologies, and Centro Ricerche Fiat Sign Fuel Cell Engine Partnership


December 2005
 Filed under: FIAT Car News | FIAT Headlines

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.

Source: Nuvera Fuel Cells

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