The companies announced the its plan to use zero-emission power generators that will be featured in the inaugural Extreme E electric SUV racing series that begins in April 2021. 

The AFC Energy designed and built system will power vehicles across five continents in Extreme E's first season, including race locations in the Arctic, Amazon Rainforest, Sahara Desert and the heights of Tierra del Fuego in Argentina.

AFC Energy will now move to the integration and delivery of Extreme E's upstream green hydrogen fueling solution which will be delivered to the championship over the forthcoming months. 

Following six months of collaborative engineering with Extreme E's utilities team, the fuel cell system has undergone a month of intensive commissioning in January at AFC Energy's Surrey assembly facility, alongside battery management systems and vehicle charging infrastructure testing.  Following inspection by its engineering team, it is now set for handover to Extreme E's logistics team for shipping to the season's first race in Saudi Arabia. 

A small number of AFC Energy staff will travel to the first race in early April to monitor and maintain the performance of the H-Power system over the race weekend.  The system will then subsequently be deployed to its four other races across the remainder of the year, including Dakar, Senegal (29-30 May), Kangerlussuaq, Greenland (28-29 August), Santorem, Brazil (23-24 October) and Tierra del Fuego, Argentina (11-12 December).