Liebherr To Demo Fuel-Cell Power

摘要

Liebherr-Aerospace has teamed with General Motors (GM) to demonstrate a hydrogen fuel-cell-based electrical power-generation system for aircraft. The demonstrator will be based on GM's Hydrotec fuel-cell technology for electric vehicles.Liebherr and GM agreed in 2018 to cooperate on fuel-cell technology. The integrated demonstrator, customized to the performance and economic requirements of commercial aircraft, will be tested in 2022 in Liebherr's system-integration laboratory in Toulouse.The demonstrator will incorporate GM's fuel-cell-based Hydrotec power cube along with its controls and models. GM has previously agreed to supply Hydrotec systems to heavy truck-makers. In these applications, the power cube contains more than 300 fuel cells and produces 80 kW of electrical power.