Dana Corporation Fuel-Cell-Powered Scooter A HIT at Hannover Industrial Fair
03 Maggio 2004 - 4:50PM
PR Newswire (US)
Dana Corporation Fuel-Cell-Powered Scooter A HIT at Hannover
Industrial Fair TOLEDO, Ohio, May 3 /PRNewswire/ -- A
fuel-cell-powered scooter -- showcasing critical technologies
developed by Dana Corporation -- was a featured attraction at the
recent Hannover Industrial Fair in Hannover, Germany. Dana said it
plans to showcase the scooter at several industry events this year
as the company celebrates its 100th anniversary. (Logo:
http://www.newscom.com/cgi-bin/prnh/19990903/DANA ) Dana developed
a number of fuel-cell components on the scooter, including bi-polar
plates, end caps, heat exchangers, pumps, and valves. Over the
course of the project, Dana developed several inventions and made
numerous patentable discoveries that hold promise for advancements
in future generations of components. Designing and integrating
components for the scooter provided Dana engineers with further
insight into the challenges that customers encounter when
constructing a fuel-cell system. Dana Chairman and CEO Michael J.
Burns said, "The valuable product and system knowledge Dana gained
with this project will benefit our fuel-cell customers and partners
as we take the next steps toward developing high-volume fuel-cell
components for stationary and automotive applications." Combining
expertise from the institute Zentrum fur Sonnenenergie- und
Wasserstoff-Forschung (ZSW) and motorcycle manufacturer Motorrad-
und Zweiradwerk GmbH (MZ), Dana scientists and engineers developed
the future- generation fuel-cell components incorporated into the
scooter. Dana experts from each of the company's five global Fuel
Cell Support Centers successfully created components that had never
before been built for such an application. The project aided in
understanding the complications involved with a complete fuel-cell
system. It also allowed Dana's engineers and scientists to test new
theories and products in a real-life application and within a
challenging packaging environment. "Dana has an established global
network of support centers for fuel-cell research, each with a
specific area of product expertise," said Mike Laisure, president
of Dana's Automotive Systems Group. "Our goal is to help fuel-cell
integrators succeed by making this a commercially viable power
source for the future." The fuel-cell stack and system is based on
ZSW's well proven PEM PowerBag technology. A research institute
working in the field of renewable energies and electrochemical
energy technology ZSW, of Ulm, Germany, has nearly 15 years of
experience in fuel cell design, operation, and testing. The company
integrated the Dana components in to the system and developed the
system-control unit and design. The scooter is based on the Charly
battery-powered scooter built and supplied by MZ of
Zschopau-Hohndorf, Germany. In addition to providing the scooter,
MZ has assisted in providing custom designed frames, bodywork, and
wiring to support the fuel-cell system. Dana Corporation is a
global leader in the design, engineering, and manufacture of
value-added products and systems for automotive, commercial, and
off-highway vehicles. Delivering on a century of innovation, the
company's continuing operations employ approximately 45,000 people
worldwide dedicated to advancing the science of mobility. Founded
in 1904 and based in Toledo, Ohio, Dana operates technology,
manufacturing, and customer-service facilities in 30 countries.
Sales from continuing operations totaled $7.9 billion in 2003.
Dana's Internet address is http://www.dana.com/ .
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