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Light Duty Automotive
Horizon has been observing the automotive market as a longer term opportunity, as its technologies continue to evolve and costs continue to decrease. We believe in a radical reduction in the size, weight and complexity of today's automotive fuel cell systems, starting more energy efficient vehicle designs, improved energy management systems, and hybridization with other high performance energy storage technologies. Once an optimal and economically viable vehicle is developed, infrastructure will follow.
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As in other applications, Horizon's preference is to"think big, but start small". We believe the first commercial hydrogen fuel cell integrated vehicles will be small, urban vehicles that require small quantities of hydrogen fuel to operate and are priced competitively with conventional vehicles. Moreover, Horizon believes the first commercial fuel cell vehicles of this nature will circulate in a new generation of Chinese model cities, where automotive markets are growing at unsustainable rates, creating huge strains on the environment and on energy supply.
Horizon has been supplying multi-kW fuel cells to local next-generation zero emission vehicle research programs in China since 2005, and is also working with an innovative consortium in the UK that is designing a small fuel cell integrated urban vehicle, looking to complete a first prototype by early 2008.
Contact us to learn more about our developments in this area, or to explore collaboration opportunities.
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