Recently, Amy Davis, president of Cummins’ new power division, said: “The demand for electrolyzers is growing rapidly. We have the opportunity to use green hydrogen to replace the environmentally friendly gray hydrogen in industrial processes. Interest is also growing. Cummins is using our technology leadership, customer relationships, application knowledge, and global service and support capabilities to participate in the early application markets we see for these technologies. We will continue to invest in demonstrating the prospects for fixed power applications New technologies such as solid oxide fuel cells.” Cummins combines its powertrain expertise with fuel cell and hydrogen technology to provide various types of vehicles, including buses, semi-trailer trucks, delivery trucks, garbage trucks, and passenger trains. Kinds of applications provide power. Today, Cummins has more than 2,000 fuel cell installations and more than 500 electrolyzer installations in various on-road and off-highway applications.

Cummins fuel cells are currently powering the world’s first hydrogen fuel cell passenger trains of French railway manufacturer Alstom. After successfully completing a year and a half of testing and driving more than 180,000 kilometers, Cummins is preparing to start mass production, and thus become the world’s largest supplier of fuel cells for railway applications. Cummins cooperates with leading European truck manufacturers, system integrators and waste management fleet operators to provide fuel cells for the electric garbage truck program of FAUN, a leader in the field of waste collection trucks and sweepers in Europe. All of its trucks are 100% powered by electricity, with zero exhaust emissions, and can travel 560 kilometers, which is enough to carry 10 tons of waste back and forth along the collection route. Cummins is working with ASKO, Norway’s largest grocery wholesaler, to provide fuel cell integration for four Scania electric trucks as part of ASKO’s plan to introduce more alternative fuel vehicles to its fleet.

As part of the Department of Energy’s “H2@Scale” program, Cummins and Navistar will jointly develop an 8-level heavy-duty truck powered by hydrogen fuel cells. The integrated powertrain of this International® RH™ series truck will use a HyPM® HD90 power module consisting of two series-connected HD45 fuel cell stacks. The truck will be integrated into Werner Enterprises’ fleet of more than 7,700 tractors and will operate for 12 months in local and/or regional delivery operations outside of Fontana, California.