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The Largest Hydrogen Filling Station Built in Shanghai Enhances the Commercialization of Fuel Cells Back List >August 2019

On June 5, the topping off ceremony of the hydrogen filling station built by both SAIC Motor and Shanghai Chemical Industry Park was held at the Chemical Industry Park. This is an important achievement resulted from the strategic cooperation between the two parties. The construction will further accelerate the process of commercialization of SAIC Motor’s hydrogen fuel cell vehicles and give impulse to the development of Shanghai as a first rate world-class innovation centre and industrial metropolis for fuel cell vehicles.
As the only company in China that is operating three alternative energy vehicles technology at full scale, which includes electric vehicles, plug-in hybrid vehicles and fuel cell vehicles, SAIC Motor insists on developing with regard to both market and technology. It leads the country and is second to none in the world in terms of the core technologies of fuel cell vehicles, and it participated enthusiastically in formulating 15 national guidelines for fuel cells and took the lead in achieving commercialized operation of hydrogen fuel cell cars and vans in the country.
Being the largest and the most advanced hydrogen filling station in the world at present, the station in Shanghai Chemical Industry Park occupies around 8000 square metre and is capable of supplying around 2 tonne hydrogen per day. It has the ability to fill commercial hydrogen fuel cells in the pressure of 35MPa or 70MPa while provides services including hydrogen filling, torpedo cars filling, as well as electric vehicles maintaining and charging.
Sunwin’s fuel cell buses, which are the dedicated vehicles in the operational demonstration of United Nations Development Program, have been running a commercial operation in Shanghai Jiading Bus Route 114 since the end of last year, with a grand total of 170 days lasted and 120,000 kilometre travelled.
Developing hydrogen fuel cell buses is a critical path for following the trend of global automotive industry which is currently in transition and attaining a transformation from big in size to big in power in China’s automotive industry. It is an important example that shows Shanghai’s thorough implementation of the policy, Innovation-Driven Development Strategy, in the country. In the future, Sunwin will continue to promote independent research in the core technologies of fuel cells steadily while intensify the exploration of the use of alternative energy together with other cooperating partners, so as to enhance high-quality development by technological innovation and make contribution to accelerate Shanghai’s progress on global innovation centre development goal.