It appears that BMW will be the next automaker to produce a hydrogen-powered vehicle, and will have the components ready to begin making such a vehicle by around 2020, according to a recent report in Digital Trends, which features an interview with Merten Jung, BMW’s head of fuel cell development. Mr. Jung admitted that refuelling infrastructure has been a problem for hydrogen vehicles, however he sees the situation improving as the German Government has plans to install an additional 400 hydrogen stations by 2018; sufficient to set up an initial network, and 100 stations by 2023. Likewise, infrastructure will dictate the vehicle's global launch, hence the plan is to initially release the car in Japan, followed by California and then Germany, Scandinavia, and the UK. In the debate between electricity and hydrogen as a fuel source, Jung is clear: regardless of how much batteries improve to where EVs boast longer ranges, they will never compete with hydrogen-powered cars when it comes to refuelling time.
It appears that BMW will be the next automaker to produce a hydrogen-powered vehicle, and will have the components ready to begin making such a vehicle by around 2020, according to a recent report in Digital Trends, which features an interview with Merten Jung, BMW’s head of fuel cell development. Mr. Jung admitted that refuelling infrastructure has been a problem for hydrogen vehicles, however he sees the situation improving as the German Government has plans to install 100 hydrogen stations by 2018; sufficient to set up an initial network, and an additional 400 stations by 2023. Likewise, infrastructure will dictate the vehicle's global launch, hence the plan is to initially release the car in Japan, followed by California and then Germany, Scandinavia, and the UK. In the debate between electricity and hydrogen as a fuel source, Jung is clear: regardless of how much batteries improve to where EVs boast longer ranges, they will never compete with hydrogen-powered cars when it comes to refuelling time.