Bosch has supplied two vehicles with gasoline cellular generation and began check operation at the street. The spouse within the mission is the corporate Abt eLine, which transformed the cars along side Bosch Engineering. Bosch may also deliver the FC transporters to the IAA Transportation subsequent week.
The technical foundation of each cars is shaped through “purely electrically pushed transporters which are freely to be had in the marketplace”, as the corporate writes in a remark. Consistent with the pictures equipped, the cars in query are the VW e-Crafter and the MAN eTGE. “With the 2 gasoline cellular vehicles, we’re increasing our figuring out of the gadget and appearing that the gasoline cellular will also be an appropriate power resolution for mild business cars,” expresses Dr Markus Heyn, Bosch board of control member and chairman of the Mobility Answers department.
Consistent with the corporate, the builders used Bosch parts nearly during the gasoline cellular gadget. A so-called Gasoline Mobile Package used to be used, which accommodates the stack, the anode provide module together with hydrogen metering valve and recirculation blower, the keep an eye on unit, the electrical air compressor and garage parts in addition to numerous sensors. Throughout the conversion, the improvement group then changed the batteries together with peripherals of the 2 e-transporters with the gasoline cellular, 5 garage tanks for a complete of over ten kilograms of hydrogen and a smaller battery.
“Accommodating the gasoline cellular parts within the to be had set up house used to be a significant problem,” explains Dr. Uwe Gackstatter, chairman of the Bosch Powertrain Answers department accountable for the mission. Amongst different issues, spouse ABT eLine tailored the cooling gadget, the automobile keep an eye on gadget and {the electrical} gadget; Bosch designed the gasoline cellular gadget, built-in it into the automobile along side the hydrogen garage gadget and evolved the related keep an eye on gadget.
After the essential technical checks, the cars were granted street approval. Consistent with Bosch, the mission is already offering necessary findings: “even loaded, the cars can shuttle as much as 540 kilometers and are totally refueled once more in six mins.” For fleet operators whose transporters quilt specifically lengthy distances throughout the day and go back to the depot within the night time, the gasoline cellular may thus be a excellent complement to the battery-electric power sooner or later.
Bosch will now additionally deliver each FC transporters to the IAA Transportation in Hanover. There, the corporate desires to provide rides to make the check cars tangible for everybody.
Principally, Bosch desires the mission to pave the way in which for growing additional FC parts to marketplace adulthood. “We’d like as a lot knowledge as imaginable from actual riding operations to increase the gadget additional,” says Gackstatter. Because of the cloud connection, the 2 check cars now delivered this information in actual time to the builders’ computer systems, supplementing the measured values from the check benches. In his view, alternatively, additional steps are wanted for the leap forward of gasoline generation: “Trade and politics will have to paintings in combination to take away hindrances to hydrogen applied sciences,” Gackstatter added. Amongst different issues, the improvement of a tank infrastructure and the manufacturing of inexperienced hydrogen in greater amounts stay duties that may handiest be solved in combination.
In 2021, Bosch recorded an order quantity of over ten billion euros within the box of electromobility for the primary time. At the heels of this announcement, the provider introduced in Might 2022 that it will be offering additional hydrogen parts sooner or later and in addition wish to input into the improvement of parts for electrolysers. This yr, Bosch desires to start out collection manufacturing of gasoline cellular drives for vans, amongst different issues. Heyn mentioned in Might: “On the Bamberg location, we wish to have produced stacks with one gigawatt of energy through the center of the last decade. Via 2030, a gasoline cellular truck will have to price not more to run than a diesel – that’s our objective.” Bosch had larger its investments in cell gasoline cells once more in Might – to just about 1000000000 euros between 2021 and 2024.
