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China has discreetly taken 10 per cent of the world's market for hydrogen fuel-cell vehicles. Here's a look at the company leading the charge
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In a mountainous Guangdong provincial city best known for its masonry and quarries, Yunfu is quietly carving out a niche in the global supply of hydrogen fuel-cell vehicles, a revolutionary propulsion system crucial to help the world cut greenhouse gases.
At Guangdong Nation Synergy Hydrogen Power Technology, or Sinosynergy, workers were seen during a recent visit installing storage bottles and hydrogen fuel stacks on a vehicle before its delivery to Ningxia province in northwestern China.
The vehicle looked much like any commuter bus on the road, with doors front and aft, two dozen seats and standing room. But when it gets going, the bus is powered entirely by burning hydrogen, in a process that generates water vapour as its sole by-product without any carbon dioxide or other climate-changing greenhouse gases.
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The discreet look of the buses bound for Ningxia, one of China's most impoverished regions, belies Sinosynergy's ambitions in pushing for the embrace of hydrogen fuel cells. The company, which marks its seventh birthday on June 30, produces 70 per cent of China's fuel cell stacks at the heart of the fuel-cell system.
Workers assembled a hydrogen fuel-cell bus at Sinosynergy's headquarters in Yunfu, Guangdong province, on May 21, 2022. Photo: Yujie Xue alt=Workers assembled a hydrogen fuel-cell bus at Sinosynergy's headquarters in Yunfu, Guangdong province, on May 21, 2022. Photo: Yujie Xue>
The display at the entrance of Sinosynergy's headquarters in Yunfu offers a hint of the company's vision and ambition: miniature buses, trucks, trams, passenger cars and ships, aircraft, rockets and 5G telecommunication base stations can all be powered by hydrogen fuel cells in the future. The company has nearly 5,000 vehicles running around the world using its stacks, or one in every two fuel-cell vehicles in China for a global market share of 10 per cent.
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