Available to OEMs through licensing programmes and joint development agreements, it uses an evaporative cooling technology, which means it doesn’t require individual cooling channels between each cell, as in a liquid-cooled system, which helps reduce the overall size. In turn, this can allow it to be used in a wider variety of vehicles.

Intelligent Energy is claiming industry-leading power density for the system. 

James Batchelor, managing director of Intelligent Energy’s Motive division, said:  “Our 100kW platform provides automotive OEMs with a fast-track route to our next generation evaporatively-cooled stack technology, integrated into a compact system architecture.

“The concept, design, technology elements and IP package are all in place to enable the platform to be applied to customer vehicle programmes today.”