[월간수소경제 성재경 기자] As the beta model of the European Nikola Tre hydrogen truck will be unveiled at the “IAA Industrial Car Display” held in Hanover, Germany on September 19, Bosch, the world’s most significant supplier of car areas, is attracting attention.
On August 31 (area time), the German group Bosch introduced that it would commit $ 200 million in the output of fuel cells in Anderson, South Carolina, in the United States.
Bosch will expand its existing Anderson facility to assistance gas mobile producing, which will develop at least 350 new work by 2026.
The gasoline mobile stacks generated below will be utilized in the coming decades in hydrogen-run trucks on US roadways, together with Nikola’s hydrogen vehicles.
Past yr, Bosch signed a deal with Nikola, an American start out-up company of electrical trucks, to deliver gasoline mobile modules.
The transfer arrives when the US Environmental Safety Agency proposes to lower nitrogen oxide emissions from major vans from 60% to 47% by 2045, requiring the trucking industry to also adopt hybrid or electrical powertrains.
In the meantime, from January 1 subsequent yr, when Mark Russell’s retirement is confirmed, Michael Lohscheller, an automotive field veteran who has labored for Volkswagen and Opel, will take more than as president and direct Nikola.
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