Manufacturing Readiness Assessment for Fuel Cell Stacks and Systems for the Back-up Power and Material Handling Equipment Emerging Markets

摘要

The Department of Energys Hydrogen, Fuel Cell, and Infrastructure Technologies (HFCIT) Program has successfully supported and guided the advancement of fuel cell and hydrogen technologies for the 80-kW direct hydrogen automotive power system. Importantly, the HFCIT Program-funded cost projections for automotive fuel cell power systems forecast the automotive polymer electrolyte membrane (PEM) fuel cell cost in the range $60/kW to $80/kW based on anticipated manufacturing advancements at a proposed production rate of 500,000 80-kW PEM automotive fuel cells per year. Federal cost incentive scenarios do not forecast automotive fuel cell production to reach 500,000 vehicles for at least another ten years.