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1. Agricultural : Supporting Primary and Secondary Agriculture
• Scope: Provide support solutions to enhance agricultural productivity and sustainability.
• Target Areas: Polokwane, Tzaneen, Thohoyandou, Makhado, and Giyani.
2. Automotive Sector: Partnerships with Mechanics and Panel Beater Shops
• Scope: Develop collaborations with automotive service providers to improve service quality and business operations.
• Target Areas: Polokwane, Lephalale, Mokopane, Phalaborwa, and Bela-Bela.
3. Empowerment : Focusing on Women Empowerment
• Scope: Provide business support support and training to women-owned businesses, promoting economic inclusion.
• Target Areas: Polokwane, Thohoyandou, Musina, Burgersfort, and Louis Trichardt.
We will also prioritize Industrial Economic Zone areas and their priorities.
Sign up on https://profilesmes.online/welcome/
To be eligible:
1. You must have a registered business and operate in Limpopo
2. Generate revenue
3. Sectors : Agriculture ( primary and secondary) and Automative
Women and Youth are encouraged to apply even if you don't fall in those sectors.
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𝘼𝙣𝙩𝙞𝙦𝙪𝙚 𝙋𝙡𝙖𝙨𝙩𝙞𝙘 𝙏𝙧𝙖𝙙𝙚𝙧𝙨 𝙞𝙨 𝙫𝙚𝙧𝙮 𝙛𝙖𝙢𝙤𝙪𝙨 𝙛𝙤𝙧 𝙢𝙖𝙣𝙪𝙛𝙖𝙘𝙩𝙪𝙧𝙞𝙣𝙜 𝙩𝙝𝙚𝙞𝙧 𝙥𝙧𝙤𝙙𝙪𝙘𝙩𝙨. 𝙒𝙚 𝙝𝙖𝙫𝙚 𝙖𝙡𝙡 𝙩𝙝𝙚 𝙥𝙡𝙖𝙨𝙩𝙞𝙘 𝙜𝙧𝙖𝙣𝙪𝙡𝙚𝙨 𝙪𝙨𝙚𝙙 𝙞𝙣 𝙖𝙪𝙩𝙤𝙢𝙤𝙩𝙞𝙫𝙚 𝙖𝙣𝙙 𝙖𝙪𝙩𝙤 𝙥𝙖𝙧𝙩𝙨 𝙖𝙣𝙙 𝙖𝙡𝙡 𝙩𝙝𝙚 𝙛𝙖𝙢𝙤𝙪𝙨 𝙘𝙤𝙢𝙥𝙖𝙣𝙞𝙚𝙨 𝙗𝙪𝙮 𝙩𝙝𝙚 𝙜𝙧𝙖𝙣𝙪𝙡𝙚𝙨 𝙛𝙧𝙤𝙢 𝙪𝙨.
Over the 10 years, we have gained a strong foothold in the market due to our range's high quality, competitive prices, and time-lined delivery schedules.
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Fuel cell electric vehicles and hydrogen fuel for California
1. Fuel cell electric vehicles and
hydrogen fuel for California
California Energy Commission
IEPR workshop on Transportation Energy Scenarios
7/31/2013
4. National Research Council March 2013
• Analyzed alternative vehicles and fuels scenarios
with the goals of:
» Reducing oil consumption by 50% below 2005 levels by
2030
» Reducing oil consumption and greenhouse gases by 80%
below 2005 levels by 2050
http://www.nap.edu/catalog.php?record_id=18264
5. FCEV costs from NRC report*
* NAS Transitions to Alternative Vehicles and Fuels, March 2013
(http://www.nap.edu/catalog.php?record_id=18264)
• Assumes 200,000 per year
production volume
• FCEVs competitive with other
electric drive vehicles
• Before 2050 the cost of FCEVs
could be lower than the cost
of an equivalent ICEV, and
operating costs should also
be lower.
• FCEVs are expected to be
equivalent in range and
refueling time to ICEVs.
6. • Fuel cell system costs
projected at $36-$40/kW,
assuming commercial
introduction of FCEVs at
annual production volumes
over 200,000 units, with the
primary economy of scale
occurring at 50,000 units
(emphasis added)
• Hydrogen costs can be
competitive with gasoline**
Fuel cell and hydrogen costs*
* NAS Transitions to Alternative Vehicles and Fuels, March 2013
(http://www.nap.edu/catalog.php?record_id=18264)
**FCEVs travel 2-3 times as far as ICEVs on the same energy
8. FCEVs: Real and ready
Hyundai Tucson ix35 FCEV
production launch 2/26/13
Daimler/Nissan/Ford joint development
announces 2017 launch of affordable FCEV
1/28/13
Toyota partnership with BMW 1/24/2013
Toyota announces sedan-type FCEV
launch in 2015 9/24/12
Honda and GM announce joint development
and Honda confirms 2015 launch 7/2/13
9. Stations must come first
• 68 stations provide coverage to
enable market launch
» Supports customer convenient fueling in
early markets
» Enables travel throughout early market
regions and state
10. Open Today:
• Burbank
• Emeryville
• Fountain Valley
• Harbor City
• Irvine #1
• Newport Beach
• Thousand Palms
• Torrance
• West LA #1
In Development:
• Beverly Hills
• Diamond Bar (upgrade)
• Hawthorne
• Hermosa Beach
• Irvine #2
• Los Angeles
• San Juan Capistrano
• Santa Monica
• West LA #2
• West Sacramento
• Westwood
Plus 7 more stations
recently awarded
Hydrogen stations in California
11. Five clusters to launch market
• Santa Monica and West Los Angeles
• Torrance and nearby coastal cities
• Southern coastal area of Orange County
• Berkeley
• South San Francisco Bay area
Locations based on:
• Demographic information
• Individual OEM market assessments
• California Energy Commission/Air Resources Board Vehicle Survey
• Hybrid and alt fuel vehicles registrations
• Geographic distribution of Clean Vehicle Rebate Program
12. 0
5
10
15
20
25
0 20 40 60 80 100 120 140 160 180 200 220
Number of hydrogen stations
Improvedaccessibilitytohydrogenstations
…
Access to stations
Chart courtesy of National Fuel Cell Research Center at UC Irvine
Infrastructure can support
commercial volumes of FCEVs
and becomes self-sustaining
TippingPoint
13. Building a statewide network
Map of 68 Hydrogen Fueling Stations: Existing, In Development and Needed
Los Angeles Area
Bay Area
15. FCEVs will be launched worldwide
Germany:
50 stations by 2015
Japan:
100 stations by 2015
Korea:
43 stations by 2015
Scandinavia:
at least 15 stations by 2015
UK: 65 stations to launch
18. California ZEV Action Plan
• By 2015: California major metropolitan areas
“ZEV-ready” with infrastructure and
streamlined permitting
• By 2020: California ZEV infrastructure can
support up to 1 million vehicles
• By 2025: Over 1.5 million ZEVs in California
19. CaFCP Members
Air Liquide
Air Products
Alameda-Contra Costa Transit District
(AC Transit)
Automotive Fuel Cell Cooperation
Ballard Power Systems
California Air Resources Board
California Department of Food and
Agriculture
California Energy Commission
California State University-Los Angeles
The Center for Energy Efficiency and
Renewable Technologies (CEERT)
Chrysler
Daimler
Energy Independence Now
General Motors
Honda
Hydrogenics
Hyundai
Institute of Transportation Studies, UC Davis
Linde North America, Inc.
National Fuel Cell Research Center, UC Irvine
National Renewable Energy Laboratory
(NREL)
Nissan
Powertech Labs
Proton OnSite
Sandia National Laboratories
South Coast Air Quality Management District
Southern California Gas Company
SunLine Transit Agency
Toyota
U.S. Department of Energy
U.S. Department of Transportation
U.S. Environmental Protection Agency
Volkswagen
20. Questions or comments?
Catherine Dunwoody | Executive Director | CaFCP
916-371-2870 | cdunwoody@cafcp.org
www.linkedin.com/in/cafcpexecutivedirector/
www.cafcp.org
Editor's Notes
Thank you for inviting me to discuss fuel cell electric vehicles and hydrogen fuel. FCEVs are on the road today fueling at a handful of hydrogen stations. Our goal at the California Fuel Cell Partnership is to bring FCEVs and fuel cell buses to the commercial market.
This is a picture of three customers fueling their cars at the hydrogen station in Torrance. FCEVs are electric vehicles that use hydrogen fuel to create electricity to drive the car. They are zero emission vehicles that go 200-400 miles on a tank, can refuel in minutes and emit 60 to 90% fewer greenhouse gas emissions than gasoline vehicles. Five OEMs have FCEVs on the road in California and three transit agencies operate fuel cell buses.Quite frankly, the cars are great. I drove here today in a Honda Clarity and I’m glad to take you for a drive and you can see for yourself. Today I want to share with you three important points about the potential for market growth of FCEVs in California.
Industry and governments are making significant investments today to launch a market. These are smart investments, because hydrogen fuel cell electric vehicles make sense.
The National Academies published the Transitions to Alternative Vehicles and Fuels report earlier this year. The goal of their analysis was to examine vehicle and fuel scenarios that could achieve reductions in oil consumption and GHG emissions of 80% by 2050. The report identifies several vehicle and fuel scenarios that could achieve these goals. The scenarios that achieve the greatest reductions all include FCEVs.An important finding is that for new, advanced technology zero emission vehicles like FCEVs and BEVs to be a majority of the fleet mix by 2050, they need to represent a significant fraction of new car sales by 2035. This means we need to start now to launch a market.The report had many findings and I encourage everyone to read it to gain insights about all the scenarios the NRC analyzed. Today I want to highlight their analysis regarding FCEV and hydrogen costs.
NRC’s analysis shows that FCEVs can be competitive with other electric drive vehicles at production volumes of 200,000 per year. With further technology advancements and improved supply chain, costs for an FCEV could be lower than an equivalent internal combustion vehicle. And FCEVs are expected to be equivalent in range, refueling time and performance to the conventional cars we drive today.
The primary economy of scale occurs at 50,000 units—which is about the same number of new vehicles registered in the San Francisco Bay Area in the first quarter of 2013. This points to the value of ensuring fuel stations are available so automakers can achieve sales at this level as quickly as possible after market launch. NRC’s analysis shows that hydrogen can be competitive with gasoline today, and it can be much less expensive once FCEVs are on the road. When comparing these costs to gasoline it is important to note that FCEVs travel 2-3 times as far as a gasoline vehicle on the same amount of energy. So $10/kg for hydrogen translates to $4/gallon gasoline. And a future cost of $4/kg hydrogen translates to $1.60/gallon gasoline.It points to why we need hydrogen stations available today so that automakers can achieve sales at this level as quickly as possible after market launch.
California’s policies and most importantly, the CEC’s incentives for hydrogen fuel stations will enable the market launch in the 2015-2017 timeframe. These are smart investments that represents the State’s commitment to partnering with industry and consumers to enable a transition to cleaner more sustainable vehicles and fuels. We need to start now so that FCEVs and other ZEVs can become a substantial piece of new car sales by 2035. Policies and incentives must be consistently strong and durable through the transition years to achieve this goal.
Car companies are doing their part to make great vehicles. Automakers have invested a combined $9 billion to RD&D for fuel cell electric vehicles. They have announced partnerships and production plans beginning in 2015.
Before automakers can begin marketing FCEVs to customers, those customers need to know they will be able to fuel their cars with hydrogen. They must know they can travel throughout the early market regions, between regions and to destinations for work and recreation. The FCEV is a no compromise vehicle as long as fuel infrastructure is available where customers want to go.We have a plan to make sure customers have access to fuel. CaFCP published A California Road Map in 2012. It calls for a minimum of 68 hydrogen stations to enable market launch, growing to around 100 stations to sustain market growth and transition to commercial.
The State of California has taken a leadership role in providing cost share for the current network of stations, and is supporting the growth of that network such that we can expect between 25-30 public hydrogen stations in place by 2015. We are almost halfway to our goal.
The roadmap calls for stations to be located in five early market clusters. These locations were identified based on a number of different data sets, including automakers own market assessments, demographics, surveys, vehicle registration data and disbursements of the CVRP. Together this information indicates the markets where automakers are most likely to find their first FCEVs customers.
To make the early hydrogen station network convenient for customers in these early market communities, UC Irvine identified a six-minute maximum travel time as the “tipping point” based on previous optimization research, driver behavior surveys, and a need to balance network strength with network cost. This equates to having hydrogen at 5-7% of existing gasoline stations within the defined communities. At this penetration, stations can support commercial volumes of FCEVs, thereby spurring throughput and putting stations on the path to become self-sustaining business opportunities.
The roadmap provides station coverage that will enable convenient customer access for early markets. Initially this network of stations will be underutilized, that is, they will have the capacity to fuel many more cars than are on the road. Customers will gain confidence they can fuel when and where they need to, as easily as they do today with gasoline. However, businesses that offer hydrogen will need incentives to offset their early operating losses due to low throughput. Hydrogen, like all fuels, will be a volume business. Once 68 stations are in place, FCEVs can enter the market in larger volumes and the station network will need to expand to provide the capacity to fuel more cars every day. This will signal the launch of a commercial market.
California has taken a leading role in promoting FCEV and hydrogen commercialization, but California is not alone. Germany, Japan, Scandinavia, the UK and Korea have plans to build hydrogen fuel station networks to support early FCEV market launch. This is important to automakers so they have confidence that regions will be ready when FCEVs come to market. One market won’t be enough to absorb the volumes automakers will need to produce to achieve economies of scale. At the same time, these markets need to be focused so that automakers can provide the support that a new, advanced vehicle technology requires.
Ultimately the customer will decide whether an advanced technology vehicle and fuel will be successful. The customer must gain value from their purchase. California’s incentive programs such as the Alternative and Renewable Fuel and Vehicle Technology Program and the Air Quality Improvement Program are important elements of demonstrating value to early customers. And of course automakers and station providers must produce excellent products.
Early customers today are delighted with the performance and convenience of driving and fueling their fuel cell electric vehicles (although they want more places to fuel!). We know FCEVs can be a commercial success. All the ingredients will be in place - performance, durability, cost reduction potential, and affordable fuel.
Supporting the customer value proposition today will enable market launch and growth of FCEVs along with other ZEVs. I firmly believe FCEVs will play a significant part in meeting the Governor’s goals for over 1.5 million ZEVs in California by 2025.
CaFCP members are working to promote commercialization by collaboratively addressing technical and implementation challenges and reaching early market communities to help them become “hydrogen ready”.