Thursday, March 17, 2011

Mercedes to build $50M fuel cell plant in Burnaby!




Quoted from The Vancouver Sun

METRO VANCOUVER - Mercedes Canada today announced it will manufacture all its fuel cell stacks for its pre-commercial hydrogen fuel cell vehicles at a new $50 million plant opposite the Automotive Fuel Cell Cooperation (AFCC) building on North Fraser Way in Burnaby,

The plant is expected to be in operation by 2013 and its production will be shipped to Germany for installation into a fleet of vehicles that will be assembled that year.

Mercedes Benz officials said the plant was the first of its kind worldwide said they expected to put fuel cell vehicles into commercial production in about 2016.

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