GSS EU Science Funding Gateway

Proposals should:

• Develop at least two different types of NRMMs relevant for a certain end-user ecosystem, and representative of as many applications as possible in terms of machine power and duty cycles. Applications / work sites considered should belong to the Construction & Mining and/or Agricultural & Farming sectors.
• Develop newly designed vehicles in order to provide an optimal integration of the complete FC system in the NRMM architecture (as such, retrofitting existing ICE vehicles is not in the scope of the topic);
• Run the NRMMs simultaneously at a real operations site, and operate each of them for at least 1,000 NRMM working hours;
• Bring suitable technical solutions and verify the effectiveness and safety of the complete system developed for the specific working conditions and applications of the various types of NRMMs;
• Demonstrate:
  • The performance and reliability of the complete fuel cell system on the different NRMMs;
  • The up-time of machinery and thus work sites with a rapid, secured and safe refuelling process on site based on existing standard protocols, whenever available;
  • As a global outcome, the viability and relevancy of future commercial vehicles;
• Identify suitable solutions to meet relevant legal or standards requirement likely to prevent the successful introduction of hydrogen FC technology in the various NRMM’s fields of application. As an example: ATEX classification compliance for mining environment.
• Assess the TCO of the solution developed, both at prototype development stage (small number of vehicles) and projected in 2030 with different market uptake and technologies maturity development.

Proposed projects should prove the scalability and/or the modularity of the solutions demonstrated to either bigger or smaller models of a given type of NRMM.