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Fifth hydrogen filling station opens in Baden-Wuerttemberg (news with additional features)

(DGAP-Media / 01.10.2015 / 17:17)

Fifth hydrogen filling station opens in Baden-Wuerttemberg

- Daimler, Linde and TOTAL continue expansion of the hydrogen station
network

- Integration of H2 fuelling technology into an existing filling station
in Fellbach

- Other stations planned in the southwest, including Karlsruhe and Ulm

- Project is part of the Clean Energy Partnership (CEP), funded by the
National Innovation Programme (NIP)

Munich/Stuttgart/Berlin, 1 October 2015 - Daimler, Linde and TOTAL are
continuing their joint plans for the expansion of a national hydrogen (H2)
infrastructure. After the openings at the Geiselwind motorway service area,
the first H2 filling station on the autobahn, and at two locations in
Berlin, the partners have now taken another step towards a nationwide
supply network for locally emission-free electric vehicles with fuel cells.

Today at the TOTAL multi-energy filling station in Fellbach, Dr Veit
Steinle, Director-General, Departmental Policy Issues at the Federal
Ministry of Transport and Digital Infrastructure, joined Ministerial
Director Helmfried Meinel of the Baden-Wuerttemberg Ministry for the
Environment, Climate and Energy, in symbolically refuelling the first
vehicle, a Mercedes-Benz B-Class F-CELL. The H2 station in Fellbach is the
fifth of its kind in Baden-Wuerttemberg, more are to follow in the months
ahead.

Mr Meinel, who heads the State Ministry for the Environment, Climate and
Energy, emphasized how important it is to the Baden-Wuerttemberg state
government to support the establishment of Germany's H2 infrastructure:
"Hydrogen and fuel cells have great potential to become a key technology
for environmentally friendly mobility. They can help us to reduce our
dependence on oil imports."

He added that hydrogen could also play an important role in many other
areas, for example, as a temporary storage medium for electricity from
renewable energy sources. "In the past three years, the Environment
Ministry has invested a total of four million euros in promoting
Baden-Wuerttemberg's H2 infrastructure in in the form of hydrogen filling
stations and facilities for producing and storing renewable hydrogen
through the H2BW innovation programme. To continue encouraging the
development of this infrastructure, we have launched another programme
called 'Power to Hydrogen', with which we are supporting the large-scale
production, distribution and use of hydrogen from renewable sources. The
state is making a total of 1.4 million euros available for this purpose in
2015 and 2016."

The Fellbach station features the compact 700-bar fuelling technology from
Linde that is ideally suited for retrofitting existing, conventional