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Hydrogen infrastructure is now the urgent task
Annual meeting of the DWV members
Installing an infrastructure for hydrogen as car fuel is the central task for the years to come on the way to a traffic system based on renewable energies and producing less emissions. This was the result of an event held yesterday in conjunction with the annual meeting of the members of DWV at Hanau (Frankfurt area). Speakers from car industry, gas industry and well-known advisors gave their opinion in presentations and a round-table discussion. They agreed that this is the task where the political sector is most important for creating the necessary boundary conditions.
All car makers put great effort in the development of serial cars running on hydrogen. They will be available for the normal customer not later than 2010. About 2000 hydrogen filling stations would be necessary in Germany to ensure their supply. Car makers and energy suppliers see this task and work on it. DWV will accompany this process by maintaining close contact with the decision makers and informing the public about the state and what remains to do.
DWV is also the fuel cell association of Germany. In the years to come this will be expressed even more than before. The meeting elected Prof. Juergen Garche (ZSW Ulm), an internationally acknowledged specialist, as new DWV board member.
New DWV chairman as successor of Dr. Rolf Ewald is Dr. Johannes Toepler . Dr. Joachim Wolf was elected as vice chairman. Dr. Ewald, the outgoing chairman, had held this office since the foundation of DWV seven years ago and thus has contributed a lot to the development of the association. The members honored his extraordinary engagement with great applause and elected him as honorary chairman of the board.
Published by the German Hydrogen and Fuel Cell Association (DWV), Berlin
V. i. S. d. P.: Dr. Ulrich Schmidtchen, Berlin
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