Loop Energy to supply Polish bus maker with FC systems
Polish electric bus manufacturer ARP E-Vehicles will use the T605 fuel cell system from Canadian fuel cell specialist Loop Energy in its new hydrogen-electric bus platform.
ARP E-Vehicles and Loop Energy have concluded a supply agreement whereby Loop Energy’s 60 kW fuel cell system will be integrated into ARP E-Vehicles’ new 12 m hydrogen-electric bus designed for the municipal transit service market in Europe.
The delivery of the first T605 60 kW fuel cell unit is expected in Q4 this year. This order constitutes the first deployment of Loop Energy’s new product line designed for rooftop mounting, which the company says is specifically catering to the European bus market.
According to Loop Energy, its distribution partner in Poland Drabpol provided local support as an important requirement for ARP E-Vehicles in the tender process. Drabpol is headquartered in Poland and offers technical support, design, implementation and market development as a reseller for numerous global brands in Poland. In announcing the supply agreement from Poland, Loop Energy notes that Drabpol is well positioned as a value-added supplier within the dominant Polish bus manufacturing sector that supplies a significant percentage of Europe’s bus market. Drabpol and Loop Energy entered into what they call a ‘value-added’ distribution agreement for Poland in 2022.
Piotr Śladowski, President of the Board at ARP E-Vehicles revealed: “Working with Drabpol and Loop Energy will allow us to secure a technological advantage and scale production capacity of hydrogen-electric buses.”
ARP E-Vehicles says it expects to complete its first hydrogen-electric bus in the fourth quarter of this year with the delivery of the first fuel cell units and for commercial sales to begin in 2024.
Loop Energy says it is now a fuel cell provider of choice to a number of fuel cell electric bus manufacturers in a serviceable market opportunity estimated to be up to 12,000 units per year across Korea, Australia, and Europe. Loop Energy has cooperations with Cummins in the USA, with Spedition Rheintal-Transporte in Germany, with NGVI in South Korea, and with Tevva in the UK, among others. The Canadian firm began setting up a factory in the UK, and now also offers fuel cell systems for trucks.
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