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>> Hello and welcome to Inside

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INdiana Business, I'm Gerry

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Dick. Coming to you this week

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from Columbus. Specifically we

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are outside the Columbus and

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engine plants at Cummins, this

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global manufacturer has been

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churning out engines for more

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than 100 years, feeling the

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Columbus area economy and also

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the economy everything from

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pickups to heavy duty trucks

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to big earthmoving and mining

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machines to school buses and

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delivery trucks. All over

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those years innovation has

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been driving the Cummins story

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and the next chapter is

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emerging here in its name is

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Excel Arrive. The Columbus

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engine plant or plant one at

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Cummins, has been in operation

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for nearly 100 years. In the

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early 60s the plant produced

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more than 60% of US heavy duty

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truck engines. While

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traditional engine

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manufacturing continues in a

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big way at this massive one .4

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million square-foot facility,

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it is giving way to a new kind

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of manufacturing, a new brand

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and a new day at Cummins.

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>> XL Aurora is Cummins zero

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admissions business unit that

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is focused on developing

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products and technologies for

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our customers to help them

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operate in a more sustainable

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way.

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>> Is absolutely not lost on

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us. That's where we built the

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first diesel engines Cummins

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diesel engines is where we are

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building the first systems and

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batteries.

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>> Batteries, electric motors,

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powertrain systems, a

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electrolyzer's. New zero

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admissions products that were

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present the future of Cummins,

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and all of the above strategy

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aimed at the carbon is in

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heavy-duty industry.

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>> A key part of her

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investment in this new

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technology area has been in

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hydrogen, and it's both in

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terms of pieces of equipment

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that can use the hydrogen to

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make zero admissions

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electricity, like fuel cells,

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but also electrolyzers which

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can take electricity and water

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and make clean hydrogen.

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>> Hydrogen is seen as the

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rising star of Cummins zero

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admissions portfolio. The

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company recently unveiled the

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first hydrogen powered

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passenger train in North

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America, a partnership with a

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French company powered by

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hydrogen fuel cells made in

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Canada. While Columbus is one

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of three fuel cell research

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centers for Excalibur,--

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production is done elsewhere.

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But that could change as the

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market evolves, Indiana's

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recent designation is a

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federal hydrogen hub and the

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states increase in new energy

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profile are viewed as

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potential positives as it

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begins its ascent.

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>> If you're looking at what's

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necessary to sort transition

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to zero admissions, it's

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really a whole ecosystem. It's

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not just one product, you have

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a lot of different pieces but

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we have all the pieces here in

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Indiana. We've got all the

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right ingredients, so it's

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exciting.

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>> And to give you an idea of

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Cummins King and all and on