BMW and Total break boundaries, achieve world first for hydrogen fuelling

BMW and Total are in the middle of pushing Germany’s hydrogen fuelling station network to the next level, as the companies are part of a broader collaboration called the Clean Energy Partnership (CEP) that hopes to open 50 stations across the country by the end of 2015. The newest addition to the project is a station that is breaking records, as it is the only one in the world to include two types of refuelling technology.

Multi-energy filling

The new hydrogen station is in Munich, just outside the city centre. It sits alongside one of Total’s conventional fuelling stations, and is close to BMW’s Research and Innovation Centre (FIZ).

Two pumps dispense hydrogen using two different types of refuelling technology, one of which the hydrogen industry is already familiar with. A 700 bar CGH2 hydrogen storage application is commonly used in most hydrogen fuelling stations.

However, a cryo-compressed hydrogen storage technology (CCH2) gives drivers