Vision Industries Teams with Asemblon on Hydrogen Infrastructure
5/24/2010 10:00:00 PM
Mr. Martin Schuermann, President and CEO of Vision explains, "Vision has built a very functional business model for local and regional delivery zero emission heavy duty big rig trucks with a duty cycle of up to 200 miles over an eight hour shift. To build a business model for line haul, coast-to-coast, zero emission big rig trucking -- there are three major obstacles to overcome. Hydrnol is the solution to two of those obstacles." The first obstacle is getting a meaningful amount of hydrogen on board the truck. Current commercially viable technologies limit that amount to approximately 40 KG of compressed hydrogen, which effectively limits the range to a maximum of 400 miles in drayage applications. Hydrnol solves this problem by allowing Vision's trucks to carry 110 KG of hydrogen in an easy to handle liquid format, thereby providing up to 1,100 miles in drayage application...
Vision Industries Corp., producers of the zero emission electric/hydrogen hybrid Tyrano™ truck, today announced in a press release that it has entered into an agreement with Asemblon Inc. of Redmond, WA, for an exclusive license to sell Hydrnol for fleet fueling. The focus will be on centralized or strategically located fuel centers for heavy duty, Class 8 commercial vehicles equipped with fuel cells as the primary power source, excluding hybrids and gas or diesel combustion engines, within the continental United States.
Vision believes that a national introduction of Hydrnol using existing service stations as detailed below would provide the first network facilitating coast-to-coast and border-to-border travel for fuel cell vehicles. Hydrnol might well be the game changer that allows for a commercially viable, nationwide hydrogen infrastructure roll-out, at one tenth the cost of compressed hydrogen.
Hydrnol is an organic chemical "carrier" for hydrogen transportation and storage. It is a simple, recyclable, rechargeable, organic molecule that carries hydrogen, which is released on demand through an onboard reactor. Hydrnol is liquid over a wide temperature range, and its safety is comparable to that of gasoline and diesel. It can be transported via pipelines and tanker trucks, it is stored at ambient temperature, and it is unpressurized. Hydrnol can provide hydrogen to both fuel cell cars and trucks at commercially viable prices, giving Hydrnol unparalleled worldwide potential. [MORE]