Tuesday 22 May 2018

SWI swissinfo.ch: Swiss companies to create hydrogen fuelling network

Front page - SWI swissinfo.ch

Clean energy
Swiss companies to create hydrogen fuelling network

    Business
    Environment

This content was published on May 18, 2018 6:39 PM May 18, 2018 - 18:39
person filling a car with fuel

With their existing filling stations, the companies say they can create a national hydrogen fuelling network.
(Keystone)

Seven Swiss companies including retail giants Migros and Coop have formed an association to create a national network of filling stations for hydrogen powered vehicles.

Migros, Migrol, Agrola and Fenaco say they also plan to fuel their own vehicles with hydrogen by 2023. "Refuelling only takes a few minutes and autonomy can now be as much as 600 kilometres or more," said the companies in a press release on Friday. In addition, rather than emitting exhaust fumes, hydrogen powered vehicles emit steam.

In October 2016, the Swiss Federal Laboratories for Materials Science and Technology (EMPA) installed the nation’s first hydrogen fuelling station for fuel cell cars at their research campus in Dübendorf, canton Zurich. A month later Coop inaugurated the first public hydrogen fuelling station in Hunzenschwil, canton Aargau.

+ Read more about the EMPA hydrogen fuelling station.

Together the seven companies have more than 1,500 service stations and own 1,700 heavy vehicles. They say that together they can develop a nationwide hydrogen fuelling infrastructure.

A fleet of ten lorries is enough to make a hydrogen fuelling station viable, according to the press release. Private individuals will also have access.



SDA-ATS/jc
Neuer Inhalt

Horizontal Line
swissinfo EN

The following content is sourced from external partners. We cannot guarantee that it is suitable for the visually or hearing impaired.

    swissinfo.ch

Join us on Facebook!
subscription form

Form for signing up for free newsletter.

Sign up for our free newsletters and get the top stories delivered to your inbox.
Email address
Top stories (weekly)
Latest news (daily)
Business (weekly)
Politics (weekly)
Society (weekly)
Fintech (monthly)

Click here to see more newsletters
Comment on this article:
|
Log In

Write a comment...
Related Stories
Zero emissions
Switzerland gets its first hydrogen filling station

EMPA announced on Thursday that they have installed the nation’s first hydrogen fuelling station for fuel cell cars at their research campus in ...

    Sci & Tech
    Business

Geneva Motor Show
Fast and futuristic, but are electric cars for everyone?
By Armando Mombelli

Every year battery-powered cars expand their share of the Geneva Motor Show, which opens this week. A Swiss pioneer in the field explains why he ...
2 There are 2 comments on this article.

    Business
    Sci & Tech

See in other languages: 8
huge green dump truck
Green monster
Largest electric vehicle in the world unveiled at Swiss quarry

The biggest electric vehicle in the world was unveiled on Friday in a Swiss quarry. It is expected to save record amounts of CO2.
2 There are 2 comments on this article.

    Environment

Volvo xC40
Smaller footprint
Swiss drive demand for big and powerful cars
By Olivier Pauchard and Marc Renfer (RTS)

In Switzerland large, powerful vehicles make up almost half the fleet.
5 There are 5 comments on this article.

    Business

See in other languages: 7
Footer

    The company | Partnerships | Imprint | Jobs | Play SWI | Newsletter subscription | Contact

Back to top
World partners:

    Radio Netherlands Worldwide | Radio Canada International | Radio Praha | Polskie Radio

    RTS | SRF | RSI | RTR | SWI

Front page - SWI swissinfo.ch
swissinfo.ch - a branch of Swiss Broadcasting Corporation SRG SSR

No comments: