IAV, why IAV????????????30 Mar 2023 22:05
"Validation of the S+ Series stacks were witnessed by representatives from ABB E-mobility, AFC Energy and German engineering house, IAV, at an independent IAV testing facility in Germany."
Why was the AFC system testing done by IAV in Germany, a third party, when the L Series was tested by ABB at their own factory in Estonia, and ABB have a new state of the art Mobility factory in Italy where the testing could have been done?
16 August 2021
"We’ve now formally moved into the testing phase of the programme, with our system – and three of our team – now at ABB’s Electrification Solutions Systems Factory south of Tallinn in Estonia to appraise its performance and operability over the next few weeks."
https://hydrogen-central.com/afc-energy-hydrogen-fuel-cell-system-engineering-abb/
"A first look inside ABB’s state-of-the-art, carbon-neutral E-Mobility Centre of Excellence in San Giovanni Valdarno, Italy"
https://electricdrives.tv/ev-biz/a-first-look-inside-abbs-state-of-the-art-carbon-neutral-emobility-centre-of-excellence-in-san-giovanni-valdarno-italy/
Maybe, just maybe it was being tested for one of IAV's and ABB's motor or other OEM manufacturer clients as well? Hence two birds, one stone, ABB can see it tested there and so can the IAV + ABB client. The RNS wording fits this scenario "witnessed by representatives from ABB E-mobility" as if it was there for more than just ABB.
VW (a client of IAV) had an article about AFC on several of it's Websites in January 2021, since removed, although I found it still on one a couple of weeks ago but can't remember which one, might have been Spain or somewhere.
Thread 1 to read
https://www.lse.co.uk/ShareChat.asp?ShareTicker=AFC&share=Afc-Energy&page=311&thread=03A4419A-1732-408C-B97E-61D090F13DCB
Thread 2 to read
https://www.lse.co.uk/ShareChat.asp?ShareTicker=AFC&share=Afc-Energy&page=311&thread=E050E602-4486-4F3E-97BF-2D0E98D1C4D4
IAV info:
8,200 staff, most of them Engineers
Annual sales of more than €1 billion
35 years running
12 Global locations (Berlin, Chemnitz and Gifhorn, France, United Kingdom, Spain, Sweden, China, Japan, South Korea, Brazil, United States)
"Clients include the Volkswagen Group, BMW, PSA Peugeot Citroën, Fiat, Ford Motor Company, General Motors, Porsche and Toyota. Component manufacturer clients include Robert Bosch GmbH, Delphi, Continental AG and ZF Group."
IAV already work with EV's and H2 Fuel Cells
https://www.iav.com/us/tech-solution-provider/
Other info I posted came from:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IAV_GmbH