Ballard Power Systems Inc. is a developer and manufacturer of proton exchange membrane (PEM)

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products for markets such as heavy-duty motive (consisting of bus and tram applications), portable power, material handling as well as engineering services. Ballard has designed and shipped over 400 MW of fuel cell products to date.

History

Ballard was founded in 1979 by

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Geoffrey Ballard Geoffrey Ballard, CM, OBC (16 October 1932 – 2 August 2008) was a Canadian geophysicist and businessman. A longtime advocate of replacing the internal combustion engine, in 1979 Ballard founded what would become Ballard Power Systems to ...

under the name Ballard Research Inc. to conduct research and development on high-energy lithium batteries. Since committing to the development of PEM fuel cell technology in 1989, Ballard has delivered PEM fuel cell products worldwide to a number of leading product manufacturers. Ballard went public in 1993 on the

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. Ballard Power Systems opened a fuel cell manufacturing facility in 2000 in

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Automotive fuel cell cooperations

On February 1, 2008, Ballard spun out

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(AFCC) to allow for further expansion of fuel cell technology.Automotive Tech
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- November 8, 2007 - Retrieved November 08, 2007 After the split, Ballard continued as a publicly traded company focusing on non-automotive applications (including buses), while AFCC became a privately held company of 150 employees, developing hydrogen fuel cell stacks for automobiles. AFCC's initial ownership split was

(50.1%),

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(30.0%), and Ballard itself (19.9%). In 2018, Ballard signed a contract with Weichai Power for a strategic partnership. Weichai acquired for 163 million USD 19.9 percent of Ballard's shares. As part of this collaboration, Ballard and Weichai intend to supply the Chinese market with fuel cell systems for trucks, busses, and forklifts. In cooperation with

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car manufacturer

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, Ballard is part of a development partnership for automotive fuel cells, which will run at least until 2022. Ballard delivers fuel cells to bus manufacturers, e.g.

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Other activity areas

Besides road vehicles, Ballard delivers fuel cells also for trains, mining trucks, marine applications, and backup power systems for critical infrastructures such as radio towers. Furthermore, a fuel cell system for application in

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is under development.

Achievements

Ballard has: * supplied vehicles with fuel cells traveling more than 30 million kilometers in total to date 2021 * access to 2,000 patents/applications

References

https://www.bctechnology.com/news/2021/3/22/Fuel-Cell-Electric-Vehicles-Powered-by-Ballard-Have-Now-Driven-Over-75-Million-Kilometers--Enough-to-Circle-the-Globe-1870-Times.cfm {{authority control Companies listed on the Toronto Stock Exchange Companies based in Burnaby Fuel cell manufacturers