Q&A

Over a 23-year career, Rob Del Core has led more than 20 programs related to zero-emissions vehicles and subsystems, most of them related to developing hydrogen fuel-cell power, at companies including Hyzon Motors, Hydrogenics USA (Cummins), and Ricardo. Now general manager at Symbio, the Faurecia-Michelin joint venture aimed at fuel-cell stack and systems development, Del Core's work continues amid accelerating global activities in H2FC power. He was interviewed recently by Editor-in-chief Lindsay Brooke. Highlights from that conversation follow.

There seems to be a growing acknowledgement of the limitations of huge lithium batteries for large commercial vehicles and their duty cycles, and that hydrogen fuel cells are a better candidate to augment and eventually replace diesels