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With Oceanwings to the Olympic Games

With Oceanwings to the Olympic Games

Central location not far from the Elbe Philharmonic Hall
Central location not far from the Elbe Philharmonic Hall

Only slowly, the Energy Observer fought its way up the Elbe to Hamburg against the tidal ebb. The Hanseatic city in which the solar hydrogen ship moored on 28 April 2019 was the 35th station on the six-year circumnavigation of the world. A total of 101 locations in 50 countries are to be visited.

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The WASh2Emden Project

The WASh2Emden Project

The Port of Emden, aerial view.
The Port of Emden, © Seaport Emden.

The Port of Emden located close to the German / Dutch border, recently announced plans to study the technical and economic feasibility of converting excess wind energy into hydrogen.

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Realignment of the IAA

Realignment of the IAA

Toyota and its Mirai will be missing in 2019 at the IAA
Toyota and its Mirai will be missing in 2019 at the IAA

The 68th International Motor Show has to get itself re-organised. Two years ago, the organising German Association of the Automotive Industry (VDA) already had to contend with numerous cancellations by automobile manufacturers because quite a few preferred a presence at the Consumer Electronics Show in the USA to an exhibition in Frankfurt (see H2-international issue Jan. 2018).

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Great Wall Motor remains in China

Great Wall Motor remains in China

H2.Live/Card
H2.Live/Card, © H2 Mobility

Great Wall Motor (GWM) did not join H2 Mobility as originally planned. At the end of October 2018, a press release stated that the Chinese market leader for off-road vehicles and pickups wanted to invest in the German hydrogen filling station network. Nikolas Iwan, Managing Director of H2 Mobility, told the FAZ that he had contacted GWM at the beginning of 2018.

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Continuous infrastructure support

Continuous infrastructure support

Lower Saxony's Environment Minister Olaf Lies (l.) inaugurated the new H2 station directly at the exhibition grounds in Laatzen during the Hanover Fair.
Lower Saxony’s Environment Minister Olaf Lies (l.) inaugurated the new H2 station directly at the exhibition grounds in Laatzen during the Hanover Fair, © Shell

Since the number of hydrogen filling stations in Germany is unstoppably approaching the three-digit range, the inauguration celebrations are becoming smaller and the press releases fewer. Most recently, numerous high-ranking industry representatives and politicians appeared at the 50th H2 station in Potsdam.

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