We know the molecules in hydrogen aren’t exactly the best of mates which requires care when putting them together in storage vessels like fuel tanks, but nevertheless, www.carshowroom.com.au continues to share the views of many of our automotive industry colleagues that this fuel could be the future of personal transport as we know it.
Now Audi – the undoubted star brand of the Volkswagen Group – has perhaps signaled the intentions of the German conglomerate by announcing its has secured a package of fuel-cell technology patents from Ballard Power Systems Inc in Burnaby, Canada.
Audi’s technical chief Prof. Dr. Ulrich Hackenburg is in fact responsible for the development departments in the Volkswagen Group and he says the purchase of this new technology will be the impetus for future fuel cell technology programs within the Group.
“Audi is acquiring these strategically important patents for the entire group and will make them available to all the brands,” Prof. Dr. Hackenburh said.
Ballard Power Systems Inc is one of the world’s leading developers of proton exchange membrane cells.
