Bosch intends to make power module stacks at its Anderson, South Carolina, plant in 2026 for hydrogen trucks.
Bosch, the German aggregate that makes everything from dishwashers to modern programming and security frameworks, is putting $200 million in its vehicle parts plant in South Carolina to deliver energy component stacks to supply a developing business sector for zero-outflow trucks fueled by hydrogen.
The organization hopes to add 350 specialists to staff the new sequential construction system and cleanroom in Anderson, South Carolina, Peter Tadros, Bosch’s North American head of powertrain arrangements, tells Forbes. It will be Bosch’s most memorable U.S. power device creation site when it’s ready in 2026. Electric truckmaker Nikola, which Bosch has put resources into, will be a critical client for the power gadgets. Yet, he said it would likewise offer them to different organizations in North America.
Peter Tadros, Bosch’s North American president for powertrain arrangements.
“Beginning interest in this innovation is for the huge business vehicles,” Tadros said. Nikola will get power modules for its trucks from Bosch’s activity in Germany when it begins delivering hydrogen trucks one year from now. However “as an assembling accomplice here with Nikola, Anderson will support them for our provincial neighborhood system for nearby,” he said.
The venture comes closely following the U.S. Expansion Reduction Act endorsed into regulation this month that gives impetuses to building and purchasing vehicles fueled by hydrogen-for however long it’s “green” and produced using sources that radiate no carbon contamination. Hydrogen energy units are an elective wellspring of electric power for vehicles, yet while batteries store power for drive, energy units make it on request.
Notwithstanding Nikola, organizations including Cummins, General Motors, Toyota, Volvo, and Daimler are creating various kinds of hydrogen-controlled trucks that will begin raising a ruckus around town one year from now. Battery trucks, which Nikola as of now sells, function admirably on more limited runs in a perfect world under 300 miles. Organizations creating hydrogen-controlled variants imagine that framework is a superior choice for long stretch runs as energy unit frameworks aren’t much heavier than diesel motors, and the refueling time is practically identical.
Tadros said that new U.S. discharge guidelines and clean energy programs like the IRA are helping the hydrogen business. “It’s spreading the news there, giving a few impetuses to assembling, and tax reductions likewise help the purchaser,” he said. “That mix truly upholds our perspective on where hydrogen is going.”
Bosch has had creation activities in South Carolina beginning around 1985, where it presently makes sensors and electronic control units for auto power trains. It follows organizations including GM and Honda, PlugPower, and Ballard Power, which now make energy components at plants in the U.S. & Canada.
