RockeTruck is structured around delivery of electric generators and vertically integrated trucks, buses, and chassis, all using advanced zero-emission technologies. The firm's approach is to achieve the lowest total cost of ownership by integrating proven, mature components into advanced, innovative system architectures. RockeTruck develops advanced battery-electric and fuel cell-battery power generation systems for mobile power generators and commercial vehicle propulsion. The firm's first major new product is its Mobile Fuel Cell Generator (MFCG), currently being developed with grant funding from the California Energy Commission (CEC) and US DOE, augmented with an initial private investment. The MFCG uses hydrogen fuel cells and lithium-ion batteries to deliver large amounts of electrical power on a mobile platform. The MFCG will provide emergency backup power for buildings and neighborhoods during grid power outages such as Public Service Power Shut-off (PSPS) events, and will deliver power when grid power is inaccessible, such as at construction sites and outdoor events. RockeTruck is also designing an electrically-powered chassis for powering large trucks and buses using the same core fuel cell, battery, and energy management control technologies being developed for the MFCG. By the middle of this decade, RockeTruck envisions using these technologies in its own StarShip fuel cell-battery truck, an advanced, aerodynamically-shaped Class 8 truck designed to have an operating range of 1,000 miles. In addition to meeting urgent electric power generation and transportation needs, these products will address the global need for reducing emissions of greenhouse gases (as well as other toxic pollutants) by replacing generators and vehicle propulsion systems that use conventional fossil fuels (gasoline, diesel, propane, natural gas) with hydrogen fuel cell and lithium-ion battery systems that produce zero emissions. The building blocks of RockeTrucks mobile generators and zero emission trucks are the Companys PowerBox generator modules, which package fuel cells and batteries using similar components and integration concepts to serve multiple markets, with minimal design variation, high quality, and affordable costs.
