“The First International Zinc Air Fuel Cell Workshop” is held in Shanghai

By ST Daily News, December 6, 2005, Reporter: Chun Wang

Shanghai, China – on December 6, 2005, "We expect, in World Expo 2010, Shanghai can take the zinc air fuel cell automobile to be one luminescent spot and demonstrate it in front of the world." The State Council advisor and the leader of Coordination Office of China National Clean Automobile Movement, Mr. Shi Ding Hua, gave the full affirmation and commendation for promoting and popularizing the new energy application in “The First International Zinc Air Fuel Cell Workshop” in Shanghai on December 6, 2005.  

Mr. Shi thought that the energy is one of the most important factors to influence the social economy development, and it plays a decisive role for aggressive promoting the development of society, thus, the positive development and the utilizing the new non- pollution energy already became the attention of the national society. Because the zinc air fuel cell has the advantages of high energy, zero pollution, non-explosion, recycling function, so it is extremely suitable for the power of electric city transit bus. Meanwhile, during processing the solution of huge demanding of crude oil, we should also try our best to protect our environment; therefore, the electric bus powered by zinc air fuel cell would have more potential in the future.   

At the same time, there are abundant natural reserves of zinc in China, it can be the first place of the world, and the quantity is extremely richer then petroleum, the iron ore and other non-ferrous metals. Mr. Shi thought that the development of zinc air fuel cell signified the national energy demand and that will establish above the relatively wealthy resources of foundation and benefit the establishment of zinc foundation based on cycling economy. It is not only to accomplish the regeneration of utilizing zinc energy, it’s also to develop the bigger scale of the a cycling economy. Zinc oxide in spent zinc anodes has very high valuable price of raw material in great demands. If we can consider to market it to the whole industry segments in medicine, fuel material, chemical industry and other business for recycling utilization, there is going to be an economical chain of cross industry and the development of  the new era of “zinc economy”. 

Furthermore, Mr. Shi also revealed that zinc air fuel cell is one of the most important power battery projects in China’s “863” Program. It’s not only for the electric city transit bus, it also has commercializing feasibility. The cities of Shanghai, Shandong Liaocheng related department have investigation and research on its manufacturing equipment and technologies. We hope that we can widely apply this non-pollution energy to the city construction in the future. 

In addition, the workshop also invited several experts and scholars from American, German, Australia, and they gave detailed speech of the zinc air fuel cell’s technology, the research progressed, the development prospect and so on. After the meeting, they also arranged a city tour by electric bus powered by Powerzinc for experts to personally experience the great performance of the new generation of bus.

About Powerzinc

Powerzinc Electric, Inc. is a California-based Hi-Tech company. It is dedicated to the research, development, manufacturing and commercialization of advanced zinc-air fuel cells and entire manufacture facilities, along with fuel cells refuel service platform. Through years of R&D, Powerzinc has achieved significant breakthroughs in zinc-air fuel cell technology and developed the high power, large energy, long-lasting, low cost and environment-friendly power and energy source. Its innovative products - DQFC series of zinc-air fuel cells with creative design and process technology is a totally renewable energy for electric vehicles and various other applications today. 

About Powerzinc Electric (Shanghai), Inc

In Shanghai, China, Powerzinc has established a zinc-air fuel cell manufacturing and service model plant to commercialize the technology and its products. The plant is ready for commercial-scale production. The Company has started supplying DQFC series zinc-air fuel cells to manufacturers of Electric Bicycles and Electric Scooters. In the near future, the new series of DQFC zinc-air fuel cells for Electric Buses, Defense and Security, Communication and other applications will be available to the commercial market soon to satisfy the real highly growing demand anywhere in the world .