Nuvera Fuel Cells Provides Fuel Cells to Power Forklifts

Receives second order from Defense Logistics Agency

Nuvera Fuel Cells, Inc. announced it has received a follow-on order from the Defense Logistics Agency (DLA) for 18 PowerEdge RL25 fuel cell units to operate at the Susquehanna Defense Distribution Supply Depot (DDSP) in New Cumberland, Penn. The RL25 units have joined 20 fuel cell systems powered by Nuvera’s technology in service at DDSP since 2009.

The 1.5 million square foot DDSP facility is the largest Department of Defense distribution center in the U.S., with 2000 employees and 800 pieces of material handling equipment operating 24 hours a day, seven days a week. The PowerEdge RL25 units are re-powering Yale standup counterbalance trucks already in the fleet, and are being serviced by Manchester Industries of York, Penn. Refueling equipment is supplied by Air Products and Chemicals, Inc.

“Quick hydrogen refueling and the elimination of batteries in these trucks have led to increased fleet availability at DDSP,” said Robert Schafer, Vice President of Sales and Marketing at Nuvera Fuel Cells. “Their decision to expand their fleet is a testament to their, and by extension, the Department of Defense’s, belief in fuel cell powered forklifts and in Nuvera’s technology.”