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Article: India: Silicon Valley Fuel Cell Start-Up Eyes Electric Car Range-Extender Market.
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- TendersInfo
- Article date:
- September 9, 2009
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San Francisco based Oorja Protonics, which currently sells its fuel cells to Nissan Motor Co. for use in robotic forklifts, is developing a product intended to be used as a range-extender in pure electric or plug-in hybrid vehicles. In an interview on Friday, chief executive Sanjiv Malhotra said "We would have something in 18 to 24 months," adding that the company is working "very aggressively" on such a range-extending fuel cell.
Malhotra said the initial difficulty he faced when he started the company in 2005 was to find an appropriate fuel for the fuel cell. He went on to say that" The biggest challenge I was looking to solve was the ...