An interesting event took place here in Hessen in the past week....over in Bad Homburg. For reference, Bad Homburg is a 'spa' town (where magical waters reside), having around 50,000 residents, and lays about 10 miles north of Frankfurt.
So the event? They opened up the 76th official hydrogen 'filling' station in Germany.
It's at the Hessol station over on Ober-Eschbacher-Strasse. It's a somewhat new station.
They had a little ceremony and the news people did note with some glee....you could pop in and fill your hydrogen-running car....in just a couple of minutes.
Here's the thing....using summer 2019 numbers, they are just now reaching up to the 390 hydrogen car situation. So basically, there's around six cars for each station.
A trend? Well, here's the thing. The VW, Opel, Audi, BMW and Mercedes crowd have pumped in billions of Euro to build the battery technology cars. They have ZERO interest in seeing this take off with hydrogen cars. The fact that they are safe, can be refilled in three minutes or less, and be dependable? It's best not to bring this up.
There is more interest in 2019, than it was in 2010....that is one simple fact.
The odds of the hydrogen car crowd reaching 1,000 by the end of 2020? Here's the thing, back in 2010.....the problem was the lack of filling stations. Presently, they've started to show some innovation and changes. The goal of the H2 crowd (running this effort now) is to aim at seven major urbanized areas in Germany, and have one hundred stations in those seven cities (Nuremburg, Frankfurt, Hamburg, Stuttgart, Munich, Rhine-Ruhr, and Berlin).
Once that achievement is done.....they are hoping for hype on H-Cars, and moving on.
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