Product Solutions
Tailored solutions for success
Product Solutions
Ensuring the success of your fuel cell projects
Ballard’s Product Solutions team provides customers with consultancy services, product integration support, and product customization programs to ensure the success of our customer’s projects.
Consultancy services
Delivering Ballard’s fuel cell expertise to support our customer successes
Our team can perform several types of analysis to validate the choice of powertrain components based on vehicle type and duty cycle.
Consultancy services
Fuel cell consultancy services
Our fuel cell expertise and experience integrating fuel cells into various applications, allows our technical team to offer a range of analysis to assist our customers in choosing the right solution and optimizing the performance of the fuel cell energy system.
Total cost of ownership analysis
Product life cycle cost analysis and application TCO analysis to validate business case
Powertrain hybridization strategy
Battery and fuel cell hybridization simulation to optimize powertrain performance
Drive cycle simulations
Simulation to define the optimum fuel cell size to meet application requirements
Safety review
Safety review analysis of fuel cell systems integration
Support
Product Integration and Commissioning Support
Our global application engineering team with product integration specialists assist customers with the integration of Ballard fuel cell products in powertrain and energy systems.
Support
Product Integration and Commissioning Support
Ballard’s engineering team supports the integration of Ballard products into the powertrain and energy system.
Design validation
We review application designs to ensure safe and optimum operation
Product Integration
We support the integration of our product with powertrain and energy system
Commissioning
We assist our customer during testing and commissioning phases with on-site support
Training
We provide extensive product training from installation, maintenance, and troubleshooting
Customization
Fuel cell product customization
Ballard has developed 14 generations of fuel cell stacks and 9 generations of fuel cell systems, with special adaptations for customer needs:
- Customizing products for various vehicles
- High-performance fuel cell stack for automotive
- Tailored fuel cell systems for rail
- Extensive testing for EMC/EMI, shock, vibration, and environmental resilience
- CE, UL, rail, and marine certifications
- MW stationary system development with manufacturing technology transfer
Customization
Customized solutions
Ballard products are designed and tested against the requirements of our key markets, however, in some cases, customers require modifications of standard products to meet specific application requirements. Ballard’s engineering team can adapt or modify our existing product to develop a specific product solution.
Product packaging
Repackaging of Ballard product to meet specific application requirements
Product testing
Specific testing of Ballard products to meet customer or application requirements
Product compliance
Customization of Ballard products to meet a specific project requirement
By working with Ballard across numerous bus products in multiple jurisdictions, we have been able to leverage best practices and generate design, engineering and sourcing synergies. With growing demand for fuel cell buses, we are excited to continue this partnership as we drive the transition to zero-emission transportation.
– David White, Executive Vice President, Supply Management, NFI.