public traded as tsx bld nasdaq bldp industry alternative energy founded 1979 headquarters burnaby british columbia canada key people ian bourne chairman of the board of directors randy macewen president and chief executive officer products fuel cells stacks fuel cells modules technology solutions number of employees 368 june 2016 slogan putting fuel cells to work website www.ballard.com ballard power systems is a developer and manufacturer of proton exchange membrane pem fuel cell products for markets such as heavy duty motive consisting of bus and tram applications portable power material handling as well as technology solutions including engineering services . ballard has designed and shipped over 250 mw of fuel cell products to date . contents 1 history 2 achievements 3 references 4 external links history edit ballard was founded in 1979 under the name ballard research inc. to conduct research and development on high energy lithium batteries . since committing to the development of pem fuel cell technology in 1989 ballard has delivered pem fuel cell products worldwide to a number of leading product manufacturers . ballard power systems opened a fuel cell manufacturing facility in 2000 in burnaby b.c. 1 ballard went public in 1993 on the toronto stock exchange and in 1995 was listed on nasdaq . achievements edit ballard has access to 2 000 patents applications over 250 mw of fuel cell products shipped 2.4 million meas manufactured 3 000 stationary systems delivered more than 9 million kilometers in revenue service by fuel cell buses 80 million contract with vw audi references edit the practice of innovation seven canadian firms in profile pdf . government of canada . 2003 . retrieved 1 july 2016 . external links edit official website retrieved from https en.wikipedia.org w index.php title ballard power systems & oldid 733869839 categories companies listed on the toronto stock exchangecompanies listed on nasdaqcompanies based in burnabyfuel cell manufacturers navigation menu personal tools not logged intalkcontributionscreate accountlog in namespaces article talk variants views read edit view history more search navigation main pagecontentsfeatured contentcurrent eventsrandom articledonate to wikipediawikipedia store interaction helpabout wikipediacommunity portalrecent changescontact page tools what links hererelated changesupload filespecial pagespermanent linkpage informationwikidata itemcite this page print export create a bookdownload as pdfprintable version in other projects wikiquote languages deutsch edit links this page was last modified on 10 august 2016 at 16 59 . text is available under the creative commons attribution sharealike license ; additional terms may apply . by using this site you agree to the terms of use and privacy policy . wikipedia is a registered trademark of the wikimedia foundation inc. a non profit organization . privacy policy about wikipedia disclaimers contact wikipedia developers cookie statement mobile view