General Automotive Announces JV With SenCer

General Automotive, a global provider of parts, accessories and advanced technology for the automotive industry, today announced a joint venture with SenCer to develop, commercialise and market SenCer’s UltraTemp ceramic composite materials for accelerating the development of energy-efficient, environmentally friendly fuel cell technologies. The joint venture will also advance the development of next-generation oxygen sensors, which represent a significant part of GA’s current business.

SenCer has developed a series of next-generation ceramic fiber/ ceramic matrix composite materials with a wide variety of applications, including fuel cell stacks. The goal of the joint venture will be to develop a series of prototypes that will significantly advance the process of commercialising and, ultimately, mass producing fuel cells.

GA President and CEO Joseph DeFrancisci commented, “Hydrogen-powered fuel cells are widely viewed as a potential solution for higher energy prices and environmentally damaging emissions. The automotive sector, in particular, stands to reap tremendous benefits from this emerging technology as the engineering challenges that have confronted the industry to date are solved.

Source: Fuel Cell Today