Established on the shores of Lake Geneva, Switzerland in 2017, EH Group had a vision to challenge the two main commercial hurdles inherent to fuel cell technology: cost and complexity. The company’s founder, Dr. Mardit Matian, had been deeply focused on these issues over his 20-year career in fuel cells but felt that despite gradual improvements in the underlying technology, a radical new approach was required.
Four years of intense R&D later, and with a highly experienced engineering team established, EH Group’s innovative fuel cell product emerged. The result:
- Patented fuel cell stack technology, based on a wholly redesigned microstructure, which delivers market leading power density;
- A transformative assembly and production process which enables a rapid scale-up and aims to significantly reduce the price of stacks;
- A simplified fuel cell system architecture, with lower parasitic loads, thereby cheaper and more efficient.
Scalability
Early on, EH Group realised that scalability was a key feature which needed to be addressed, on two fronts. Firstly, design scalability was inherent to our engineering process. As such, EH Group’s fuel cell stacks can operate across three platforms from sub 1kW to 100kW, with the same underlying performance characteristics. A fourth platform, which delivers up to 250kW on a single stack, aimed at larger power applications, is to be announced soon.
Scalability in production was also at the heart of the company’s development process. EH Group’s fuel cell technology was ‘designed for manufacturing’, and together with various Swiss industrial partners, the company has developed ultra-fast fully-automated stack production machinery. It targets the assembly of a large stack within minutes and will enable EH Group to deliver large scale annual production targets of well over 1GW.
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