Basque Enterprise Europe Network

Title

Design and manufacture of plug and play kits to convert vehicles powered by fossil-fuel internal combustion engines to hydrogen internal combustion engines (HICE)

Reference

TOES20210726001

Last update

Tue, Aug, 03, 2021

Deadline

Sun, Jul, 31, 2022

Abstract

A Spanish consulting company in industry and automotive environment, aims to allow the deployment of a hydrogen vehicles fleet as fast as possible, focusing on current vehicles and changing their power system into hydrogen internal combustion engine by using compressed H2. The option is cheap, would speed up the hydrogen vehicles and contribute to circular economy. The technology is offered under joint venture or research cooperation agreement with industry and/or academia.

Description

Using already proven technology, the Spanish company is developing a kit to convert the usual fuel-combustion vehicles to hydrogen internal combustion engines (HICE) vehicles, whilst, keeping a big part of the original components. To make this happen, the company needs to create and train an international network of enabled workshops. According to the different types of engines, the company would provide a corresponding kit, program it, and deliver it to be installed.

The company is located in one Spanish region characterised for been strong in the automotive sector, so wants to take advantage of the local automotive synergies to accelerate the green energy transition in the region. There are several multinational automotive companies in a radius of 50km as well as their suppliers, which gives the opportunity of becoming a part of an already existing industrial infrastructure.

By economizing in the conversion of a fuel-combustion vehicle into HICE, the company aims to make the transition accessible and affordable to everyone, giving a second green-life to the polluting vehicle, facilitating the incorporation to the ecological transition to all social classes, speeding the emission reduction of greenhouse gases delivered from mobility.

The expertise in automobile compounds manufacturing and the electronic control unit (ECU) management technology allows the company to manufacture and to distribute the HICE kits, as well as to give an adequate level of customer service.

In order to create, test and reach the industrialisation phase of the HICE kit, the company needs to set up a small factory to manufacture the components, assemble them, and test this proposed technology and the future ones.

The Spanish company is looking for a partner to establish joint venture agreement or a research cooperation agreement. The partner sought must has industrial production capacity (preferably related to the automotive industry), new product development capacity and worldwide presence. The partner sough for the research cooperation agreement could be the academia or research & development institutions

Technology Keywords

Automotive engineering;Transport and storage of hydrogen;Hydrogen production;Waste to energy - other;Process optimisation, waste heat utilisation

Keyword Codes:

02009012;04001006;04002002;04005012;04007003

Current Stage of Development

Intellectual Property Rights

Secret Know-how

IPR Comments:

Exploitation of RTD Results

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Organisation/Company Size

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Detailed Market Application Codes (VEIC)

MA Keyword

Other alternative energy;Other energy production;Energy for Transport;Power transmission equipment (including generators & motors);Motor vehicles, transportation equipment and parts

MA Keyword Codes:

06003008;06007001;06011;08003006;09001005

Application Domain Description:

Collaboration Type

Comments:

Joint venture agreement
- Type: industries.
- Activity: automotive or gas storage and distribution sector.
- Role: develop a new entity to contribute in terms of equity to the design and manufacture of plug and play kits of hydrogen internal combustion engines (HICE)

Research cooperation agreement
- Type: research organization and academia.
- Activity: automotive, H2 storage and renewable energy research experience.
- Role: work together on the exploratory research and development of the hydrogen internal combustion engines (HICE) kits and plugs.

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