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HyLIFT-EUROPE

Fuel Cell Materials Handling Vehicle Market Developments in Europe

Cristina Maggi

FAST Federazione delle Associazioni Scientifiche e Tecniche

Geneva, 14th March 2018

Fuel Cell Materials Handling Vehicle Market Developments in Europe

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1 •Materials handling vehicles powered by hydrogen

2 •HyLIFT-EUROPE Project overview

3 •State of the FC MHVs market in Europe

4 •State of the states worldwide

Forklifts can be divided in classes from I to VII, however only Class I, II, and III forklifts and some Class VI forklifts are electric. Type of transportation Position of the operator. The load can range from

less than 1,000 lb to 20 tons Daily usage Indoor or outdoor application


1- Forklifts powered by hydrogen 2-HyLIFT-EUROPE Project

overview 3-State of the market of FC

MHVs in Europe 4-State of the states

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Material handling vehicles powered by fuel cell systems FC forklifts and warehouse trucks

Increase of global consumerism

Governments concern about increase of emissions

Companies looking for innovative and sustainable solutions

Without losing efficiency and even improving operational performance and reduce costs.

Source: STILL GmbH Source: STILL GmbH


No local pollutant emissions No noise Vibrations are almost zero Indoor environment and narrow aisles Low time and cost for maintenance and repair

Advantages on fossil fueled forklifts

Time savings for refuelling instead of battery replacement

No power loss during the shift No battery damage during low temperature

operations Reduced space requirements by removing

charging room Low time and cost for maintenance Reduction of peak demand (electricity load

profile)

Advantages on battery powered forklifts

No local emissions 3 minutes for refuelling Full power for an entire shift Good performance in cold

environments Possible indoor operation No noise and vibration Easy to maintain and repair 8-10 years life time

Fuel cell forklifts

ENVIRONMENTAL BENEFITS TIME SAVINGS SPACE SAVINGS HIGH RELIABILITY PRODUCTIVITY GAINS LOWER OPEX LOWER LOGISTIC COSTS ENVIRONMENT VERSATILE




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Advantages of fuel cell forklifts

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PROJECT AIM: Plan and ensure supported market deployment of FCMHVs beyond 2018

PROJECT SPECIFIC OBJECTIVES:

1. Deploy more than 200 units of fuel cell powered materials handling vehicles and associated refuelling infrastructure in 2 relevant sites in Europe, thus realizing the largest fleet deployment of hydrogen fuelled industrial trucks in Europe

2. Demonstrate the maturity of the hydrogen infrastructure as well as the safety of the use of hydrogen in industrial environment.

3. Validate the Total Cost of Ownership and the path towards commercial targets.

4. Provide a best practice guide for hydrogen refuelling stations to build, install and operate them in industrial context.

5. Disseminate the project results targeting early adopters of hydrogen solutions, policy makers, industry stakeholders and the general

public in order to create a network to support European industry.




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CALL: SP1-JTI-FCH.2011.4.1: Demonstration of fuel cell powered Materials Handling

Equipment vehicles including infrastructure

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From HyLIFT-DEMO to HyLIFT-EUROPE

11 materials handling vehicles

Saint-Cyr-en-Val 64

137 4

2

2

1

1

1

> 200 materials handling vehicles




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HyLIFT-DEMO Sites

Source: Air Liquide

Stark, Denmark Colruyt, Belgium Egetæpper, Denmark Several potential costumers, Frankfurt, Germany H2Logic, Denmark Trials in Hamburg airport/Cologne/Bonn airport, Germany

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First demonstration at Prelocentre Premises

FC MHVs in operation

Hydrogen Refuelling Stations (HRS)

Hydrogen supply and compression station




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Source: Air Liquide Source: Air Liquide

Source: © Ludwig-Bölkow-Systemtechnik GmbH www.lbst.de

Source: Air Liquide


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Solution very easy to use for the workers

No major disturbance of the operations because of the use of hydrogen fuel cells forklifts

Reliability of the technology with 100% availability of the fuel cell thanks to the technician working on site for fuel cell maintenance.

The use of such an innovative technology is still motivating for all the workers

Prelocentre feedbacks after > 16 months of operation




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Source: Prelocentre

Based on this positive return of experience, Prelocentre confirms that they will keep using the H2 fuel cells forklifts solution and order additional products as the activities are significantly increasing


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Second demonstration at other supermarket chain

Source: STILL GmbH Source: STILL GmbH

Work in progress…. Stay tuned!




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FCMHVs level of deployment in Europe

Honda UK

Colruyt

FM Logistic´s site in Neuville aux Bois (France) newly introduced a fleet of 10 machines running on hydrogen fuel cells, with a view to converting the site’s 84 forklifts into hydrogen-powered fuel cell trucks

Belgian supermarket company Colruyt plans to expand its fleet of 75 fuel cell forklifts

UK's first commercial-scale hydrogen refueling facility at a Honda site in Swindon, to refuel one forklift

PlugPower has a deal with Toyota Material Handling Norway to supply fuel cell forklifts to the warehouses of the Norwegian grocer.

The first of a total of 10 pallet trucks with fuel cell hybrid drive have been delivered to logistics company in Austria. Using hydrogen reformed onsite from biogas

Asko

BMW

DB Schenker

FM Logistic

IKEA

Daimler

Chosen Air Products’ SmartFuel® hydrogen refuelling technology to fuel heavy-duty fuel cell powered forklifts at the automaker’s Mercedes Benz Sprinter vans manufacturing site in Düsseldorf, Germany


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Further improvements to allow this market to really take-off Early adopters in Europe have paved the way to convince the industry Results of HyLIFT-EUROPE sites will be decisive for further deployment in Europe

Level of market evolution




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Source: Air Liquide

Supported market deployment

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2018

Oct2017 Plug Power, received an order from Toyota Material Handling Norway to ship GenDrive systems to Trondheim, where Nel ASA electrolyzers produce solar-sourced hydrogen at Norwegian wholesaler Asko.

Feb2018 Denmark-based Nel Hydrogen Solutions has signed a contract for an H2Station®hydrogen fuelling solution for Swedish steel producer SSAB EMEA to refuel large fuel cell powered forklifts.

BMW, Mercedes Benz, Prelocentre… are planning to scale up!


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• 3000 deployed or on order in US

• HyLIFT-DEMO starts • Procter & Gamble >200

forklifts in California, Louisiana and North Carolina

• Launch of H2USA • FCH JU under horizon

2020 with a budget of €1.4 billion

• HyLIFT-EUROPE starts

• Linde reached 1 million hydrogen fuellings at BMW’s plant in Spartanburg, South Carolina.

• Walmart >3,000 fuel cell forklifts operating at almost a dozen North American sites

• 75 forklifts deployed at Colruyt • Air Products, Suzuki Shokan to fuel Japan

materials handling vehicles

• 20000 forklifts • Market share of Plug Power 95% • Toyota material handling

announces deployments at ASKO • FC forklifts at Motomatchi Plant,

Toyota, in Japan • Expansion of the fleet at Kansai

Airport by 20 - 30 vehicles per year to approx. 100 vehicles.

• >4,000 FCMHVs were operating at nearly 40 locations in 19 states in USA.

• Plug Power converted 72 lift trucks from batteries to fuel cells at the Mercedes Benz facility in Tuscaloosa, Alabama.

• Sysco >700 forklifts at 7 sites

• Boost from: Walmart, Ace Hardware, and Central Grocers, 8000 only in USA.

• 14000 globally, 13500 in North America

• Tax credit in USA expires 31 Dec 2016

2011 2013 2015 2017

2012 2014 2016

Last years evolution of the FCMHVs market worldwide


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FCMHVs level of deployment in USA

Optimal Deployment Environments for FC MHVs Large fleets – average fleet size in USA is more than 100 FC MHVs High utilization rate, 2-3 shifts High productivity requirements High labour costs High electricity costs / low H2 costs Indoor and outdoor operation

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The positive economic impact of the deployment doesn’t not make sense everywhere, but mostly for large fleets, multi-shift operation, shared infrastructure.

Battery replacement can makes sense in special environment, however potential environmental impact and LCA should be investigated.

Full-service packages with attractive TCO (including H2 supply!) engages end users

European manufacturers are not as far as North American ones

Financial support is still required in Europe. The transition from demo projects to full commercialization of the products still needs to be pushed forward, but there are already signals of developments

Networking of the European key players is necessary to create the lobby.




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The project partners would like to thank the EU for establishing the fuel cells and hydrogen framework and for supporting this activity.

Acknowledgement The research leading to these results has received funding from the European Union´s 7th Framework Programme (FP7/2007-2013)

for the Fuel Cells and Hydrogen Joint Undertaking Technology Initiative under Grant Agreement Number 303451.

Thankyou for the attention

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Fuel Cell Materials Handling Vehicle Market Developments in Europe · 2018-06-28 · Fuel Cell Materials Handling Vehicle Market Developments in Europe Cristina Maggi - FAST - Federazione