Nuvera Fuel Cells

Nuvera unveiled the first hydrogen refueling station in the Commonwealth of Massachusetts on Monday (August 11), as part of the Hydrogen Road Tour.

Nuvera’s PowerTap refilling station, prior to the unveiling.

The crowd waiting for the Hydrogen Road Tour to arrive. Over 200 people and members of the media attended the landmark event.

Members of the crowd.

The Hydrogen Road Tour arrives.

Welcoming remarks by Nuvera’s CEO, Roberto Cordaro.

The station is officially open! (L to R) Cheryl McQueary, DOT’s Research and Innovative Technology Deputy Administrator, Barry Finegold, State Representative, Roberto Cordaro, Nuvera Fuel Cells President and CEO and June Black, Lawrence Regional Coordinator for Congresswoman Niki Tsongas, cut the ceremonial ribbon on the hydrogen refueler.

Roberto Cordaro refueling the first car at the PowerTap hydrogen station.

More refueling.

Hydrogen cars on display.

Jim Limperis (Manager, Accounting) and his family…who clearly spent some time at the face painting table!

The PowerTap station, refueling a Toyota fuel cell vehicle.

To check out the press coverage of the event, click on the links below:

Channel 5

NECN

Boston Globe

Lowell Sun

The Metro

Wunitv

CNet

CNN (scroll through to around the 2 minute mark)

A reminder to all of Nuvera’s friends out there: We will be unveiling the first hydrogen refueler in Massachusetts today as part of the Hydrogen Road Tour.

Join us!

Nuvera Fuel Cells
129 Concord Road
Billerica, MA

11:45 am - 1:30 pm

From an earlier release:

On Monday, August 11 at 11:45 a.m., EDT, the Hydrogen Road Tour will arrive at Nuvera Fuel Cells in Billerica, Mass. to celebrate the opening of the first hydrogen refueling station in the Commonwealth of Massachusetts. The ribbon cutting event will feature refueling demonstrations involving 9 hydrogen powered vehicles from leading automotive companies that are traveling from Portland, ME to Los Angeles, CA as part of the coast to coast Hydrogen Road Tour. The vehicles will be on hand for public viewing after the event, where you will be able to look under the hood and kick the tires. Spend a few hours learning about hydrogen as a transportation fuel from the people who are working on the vehicles and infrastructure. Refreshments will be available!

WHO: Cheryl McQueary, Research and Innovative Technology Deputy Administrator

Catherine Dunwoody, Executive Director, California Fuel Cell Partnership

June Black, Lawerence Area Coordinator for Representative Niki Tsongas

Roberto Cordaro, CEO, Nuvera Fuel Cells

By Danielle Andre

Nuvera and our CEO, Roberto Cordaro, were featured in a special “Energy & Innovation” pull-out section of the Lowell Sun last Sunday. The article, titled “Nuvera Fuel Cells offers ‘clean’ ride-Billerica company has landed pacts to power buses and fork lifts,” was the result of an extensive interview conducted by Sun Correspondent, Andrea Gregory, which included interviews with both myself and Roberto as well as a tour of our facility.

In her article, which spans three pages of the section, Andrea covers the history of our company, an overview of fuel cell technology, Nuvera’s focus on the material handling market and our longer term approach to the automotive industry, our expansion to Billerica, Representative Tsongas’s take on Nuvera, and the Massachusetts fuel cell cluster. No wonder she needed three pages! As the article was in a special pull out section of the Sunday paper, it hasn’t been posted to the Lowell Sun website. I’ve included scans of the article that are legible if you click them to open up to full size.

Thanks to Ales Horky and Kyle Van Zandt for representing Nuvera on film, Roberto for doing the last minute interview and Andrea for writing a great article.

Nuvera completed construction and testing of a high powered Forza Industrial Power System last night. The Phase 2 system outperformed its specified power rating of 150 kW by producing 168 kW of power.

Our CEO, Roberto Cordaro, was on hand to initiate the startup.

This was the first time this amount of power was produced at our new facility, and required the use of our largest on-site load bank, pictured above.