Hydrogenics Joins Plug-In Hybrid Consortium

Hydrogenics of Mississauga, Ontario, Canada, has joined the Plug-In Hybrid Consortium to participate in the development of plug-in hybrid vehicles. The consortium consists of automotive suppliers, manufacturers and other organizations working together to accelerate the commercial production of PHEVs. The company plans to explore how plug-in hybrid architecture can be a viable platform for advancing the affordability and commercialization of hydrogen fuel cell vehicles. Plug-in hybrid architecture provides a logical, accelerated path toward fuel cell commercialization. Primarily, an optimized battery-dominant plug-in hybrid vehicle allows the size of the fuel cell system to be kept to a minimum, keeping overall system and vehicle cost down. Furthermore, a battery-dominant fuel cell PHEV allows the best of both technologies to co-exist in one vehicle with extended driving range, zero emissions, and domestically produced fuel.