FRIDLEY, Minn. — President Biden visited the Cummins diesel engine factory in Fridley and praised the company for helping boost U.S. manufacturing with a major green initiative. Cummins is retaining 600 employees to manufacture decarbonized engines. “Instead of relying on equipment made overseas in places like China, our supply chains will be again made in American,” Biden said. “Companies and utilities across the country will use those products to make clean hydrogen and trucks made in America with zero emission engines powered by clean hydrogen.” The Cummins plant was the first stop on a 20-state swig across the country that Biden calls his Investing in America tour. He noted that the Cummins’ transition to electrolyzers was funded in part by tax credits through the Inflation Reduction Act he ushered through Congress.
Earlier: Biden due Monday in Minnesota
Electrolyzer profile
Electrolyzers are devices that use electricity to break hydrogen out of water molecules. As a fuel he so-called “clean hydrogen” reduces emissions in engines that power vehicles and other machinery that now use petroleum-based fuel.
Biden arrival
Biden landed at MSP t on Air Force One around 12:30 p.m. Among greeters: Governor Tim Walz, Senators Amy Klobuchar and Tina Smith, Representative Ilhan Omar, and Mayors Jacob Frey of Minneapolis and Melvin Carter of St. Paul.