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“This project actually avoids 1.8 million kilowatt-hours per year of electricity consumption (otherwise needed) to charge batteries …. If you don’t buy that electricity, you avoid about 1,200 tons per year of CO2 emissions.”

Ballard designs and manufactures high-performance FCvelocity^® 9SSL fuel cell stacks for use in the material handling market as exclusive supplier to Plug Power Inc.’s  line of GenDrive^® hydrogen fuel cell systems. Plug Power holds the largest share of the North American Class 1, 2 and 3 clean energy lift truck market, underpinned by a distribution agreement with The Raymond Corporation and distribution to other leading OEM’s, lift truck dealers and equipment leasing companies.

Zero-emission fuel cell-powered lift trucks deliver economic, operational as well as environmental benefits, when compared to traditional battery systems operating in high-throughput distribution centre and warehouse environments. Advantages are a direct result of increased forklift productivity, driven by factors that include availability of constant power and minimal hydrogen refuelling time.

 

A wide range of end-users are realizing these benefits and improving critical business metrics. BMW, for example, has deployed a fleet of more than 85 GenDrive^® forklift trucks with Ballard fuel cells in its automotive manufacturing plant in upstate South Carolina.

Walmart Canada deployed over 70 FCvelocity^® 9SSL powered electric lift trucks at its sustainable refrigerated distribution center in Alberta, Canada. Learn more about the fleet in Walmart Canada's most recent Corporate Sustainability Report.