Production of PEM systems, upscaling and rollout strategy

Fuel cells can ensure substantial reductions in CO2 emissions within the transportation sector in the future. While individual products are already available or are close to market maturity from a technical point of view, cost parity with fossil fuel-powered drive systems must be achieved without delay. Expensive materials and manual manufacturing are preventing production from being costeffective. No technology capable of high production rates is currently available for the large-scale production of several hundred thousand units per year; this would allow production to be scaled to a mass industrial level. The production processes necessary for upscaling are presented in this section and linked to a rollout strategy.