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Linde AG: Sweden's largest hydrogen fuelling station opened (news with additional features)

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Linde AG: Sweden's largest hydrogen fuelling station opened (news with
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18.09.2015 / 12:37

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Sweden's largest hydrogen fuelling station opened

Fuel-cell cars will run on renewable hydrogen supplied by AGA

Munich/Lidingö, 18 September 2015 - Sweden's largest and Stockholm's first
hydrogen fuelling station for fuel-cell cars was opened in Arlanda
yesterday by Bo Dyrvold, CEO of AGA, the Swedish subsidiary of The Linde
Group. At the opening ceremony Christian Norberg, Acting Managing Director
of Hyundai in Sweden, and Xavier Heylen, Managing Director at Toyota
Sverige AB, talked about each company's focus on fuel-cell cars.

"Hydrogen in connection with fuel-cell technology now has a solid track
record," says Bo Dyrvold, responsible for Linde's gases business in
Northern Europe. "This hydrogen fuelling station in connection with
Hyundai's and Toyota's fuel-cell cars offers the possibility to drive
completely emission-free. It is very positive for us to be contributing to
taking yet another step towards a more sustainable society."

The new hydrogen fuelling station in the vicinity of Stockholm's airport
has a capacity of 180 fillings with a pressure of 700 bars per day. It
takes only three minutes to fill the car up and the range is approximately
500 kilometres on a full hydrogen tank. Fuel-cell cars run on hydrogen
converted to electricity and emit only water vapour. The hydrogen comes
from AGA's facility in Sandviken, where water is split into hydrogen and
oxygen with green electricity in an electrolyser.

"Hyundai has been developing hydrogen cars since 1998 and the ix35 FCEV has
been mass-produced since 2013. Globally, we have an annual production
capacity of approximately 10,000 fuel-cell vehicles," says Christian
Norberg, Acting Managing Director of Hyundai Bilar AB in Sweden. "It is
gratifying that we now have a centrally located hydrogen fuelling station
to kick-start the market, even in Stockholm. But as is the case with all
new technologies, the assistance of government agencies is important in the
initial stages, so that the technology is able to penetrate the market."

"At Toyota we are convinced that the fuel-cell technology is the
environmentally friendly competitor of fossil fuel driven cars," says
Xavier Heylen, Managing Director at Toyota Sverige AB. "If we want to
create a society with low fossil carbon dioxide emissions and zero