26 September 2016
DETAILS
GRAND OPENING
OF THE HYDROGEN FILLING STATION IN METZINGEN
• Daimler, Linde and OMV inaugurate
new hydrogen station
• Nationwide infrastructure development
makes further progress:
22 public hydrogen filling stations are already in operation,
8 of them in BadenWürttemberg
• Co-funding by the Federal Ministry of Transport
and Digital Infrastructure (BMVI) as part of its
National Innovation Programme
for Hydrogen and Fuel Cell Technology (NIP)
Hydrogen-powered vehicles can now refill their tanks
at the OMV service station in Metzingen.
The opening of the new filling station
continues the longstanding cooperation
between the industry partners
Daimler, Linde and OMV Deutschland
as part of the Clean Energy Partnership (CEP),
and marks another step towards
a nationwide hydrogen infrastructure.
The new hydrogen station is located
at Auchtertstraße 19 in Metzingen.
The official inauguration was attended
by the representatives of the companies involved,
as well as by
Norbert Barthle,
Parliamentary State Secretary at
the Federal Ministry of Transport and Digital Infrastructure,
and Ministerial Director Helmfried Meinel
of the Baden-Württemberg Ministry f
or the Environment, Climate and Energy.
Electric mobility with fuel cell vehicles
can help to considerably reduce
transport-related CO2 emissions.
The technology of such locally emission-free vehicles
offers two major advantages
compared to battery-powered vehicles:
long ranges and short refuelling times.
The infrastructure build-up is timed to coincide with
the planned market ramp-up of fuel cell vehicles
from various manufacturers.
The technology is an integral part of
Daimler’s drive system strategy.
Vehicles like the B-Class F-CELL
and the Citaro FuelCELL-Hybrid urban bus
have covered altogether more than
twelve million kilometres to date,
proving the market readiness of this power-train.
From 2017, a new generation of vehicles
based on the Mercedes-Benz GLC will be launched:
for the first time, a lithium-ion battery plug-in
will be used in a fuel cell-powered electric vehicle
as an additional source of energy.
Linde has many years of expertise
across the entire hydrogen value chain, and
has developed several proprietary
compression technologies.
In Vienna, the company operates
the world's first small-series production line
for hydrogen filling stations.
The Metzingen site uses
a compact, 700-bar refuelling technology
that is also ideally suited for
retrofitting existing, conventional stations.
Linde uses its IC90 ionic compressor,
which combines advantages
in energy efficiency, maintenance, footprint
and noise emissions.
Together with partner companies,
Linde is also opening up new paths
in sustainable hydrogen production
using renewable energy.
Stefan Metz
Phone +49.89.357 57-1322
stefan.metz@linde.com
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