Our history
By 2030, the hydrogen industry will represent 100,000 jobs. The success of hydrogen as a solution for accelerating zero-emission mobility will therefore depend on the sharing of hydrogen-specific knowledge that is not yet fully integrated into academic curricula. With the Symbio Hydrogen Academy, we are committed to developing the skills needed for its emergence, both in our own employees and in the industry as a whole.
The continuous development of our technology through new generations of fuel cells, making our solutions ever more compact, efficient and competitive, along with our capacity to mass produce them, are key hallmarks of our roadmap.
Created in Grenoble within the CEA research center, we are supported by three shareholders who are major global automotive sector leaders, along with unrivalled experience of more than 30 years in the field of fuel cell research and innovation. We have been able to grow while still maintaining the agility of a start-up, evolving to an industrial scale in 2023 with the opening of one of Europe's biggest Gigafactories.
Creation of SYMBIOFCell, a start-up based near Grenoble specialized in the design and development of fuel cell systems.
- First Kangoo H2 vehicle on the road
- Michelin acquires a 100% stake in SYMBIO F Cell (after becoming minority shareholder as early as 2014),
- 40 employees.
- SYMBIO becomes a 50-50 joint venture between FORVIA (formerly Faurecia) and Michelin,
- SYMBIO becomes the innovation partner of Stellantis to develop its hydrogen light commercial,
- Around 100 employees.
- SYMBIO expands its commercial presence to the USA,
- Creation of the SYMBIO Hydrogen Academy, a pioneering initiative to train our employees, as well as our customers and other players in the ecosystem, in hydrogen-specific jobs and skills.
- The HyMotive project, designed to accelerate SYMBIO's industrialization and disruptive innovation, is supported by France Relance/France 2030 as part of the Hy2Tech wave of the IPCEI (important projects of common European interest) hydrogen program.
- Creation of the Innoplate joint venture with Schaeffler. Located in Haguenau, the company was set up to produce bipolar plates - a strategic component in fuel cells - and is targeting annual production of 50 million units by 2030.
- Expansion of our industrial footprint in the USA with the opening of our site in Temecula, California, supported by the California Energy Commission (CEC).
- Stellantis acquires an equal stake in SYMBIO, along with FORVIA and Michelin.
- Opening of our Gigafactory in Saint-Fons. Called SymphonHy, it is one of the largest fuel cell stack and system production sites in Europe and will have a total production capacity of 50,000 systems per year by 2026.
- More than 750 employees.
- First Kangoo H2 vehicle on the road
- SYMBIO becomes a 50-50 joint venture between FORVIA (formerly Faurecia) and Michelin,
- SYMBIO becomes the innovation partner of Stellantis to develop its hydrogen light commercial,
- Around 100 employees.
- The HyMotive project, designed to accelerate SYMBIO's industrialization and disruptive innovation, is supported by France Relance/France 2030 as part of the Hy2Tech wave of the IPCEI (important projects of common European interest) hydrogen program.
- Creation of the Innoplate joint venture with Schaeffler. Located in Haguenau, the company was set up to produce bipolar plates - a strategic component in fuel cells - and is targeting annual production of 50 million units by 2030.
- Michelin acquires a 100% stake in SYMBIO F Cell (after becoming minority shareholder as early as 2014),
- 40 employees.
- SYMBIO expands its commercial presence to the USA,
- Creation of the SYMBIO Hydrogen Academy, a pioneering initiative to train our employees, as well as our customers and other players in the ecosystem, in hydrogen-specific jobs and skills.
- Expansion of our industrial footprint in the USA with the opening of our site in Temecula, California, supported by the California Energy Commission (CEC).
- Stellantis acquires an equal stake in SYMBIO, along with FORVIA and Michelin.
- Opening of our Gigafactory in Saint-Fons. Called SymphonHy, it is one of the largest fuel cell stack and system production sites in Europe and will have a total production capacity of 50,000 systems per year by 2026.
- More than 750 employees.