Holthausen proud of new public hydrogen filling station in the Netherlands, “It is mega fast”.
[RTV Noord] Friday was the official opening act, yesterday an open day. From now on, Groningen officially has a public hydrogen filling station where anyone can refuel with a hydrogen vehicle.According to Willem Hazenberg of Hydrogreenn – a party that deals with the hydrogen economy in the north – that is about a hundred drivers of hydrogen cars. In April this year, there were 270 hydrogen cars on registration throughout the Netherlands.
Carl Holthausen, director of Hyzon Holthausen and initiator of the gas station, is cheerful:
There are more and more passenger cars.
“They are also widely for sale, at Hyundai or Toyota. I actually compare them to a Tesla. They are cars in the upper middle class, perhaps expensive, but Tesla is also widely sold.”
available 24 hours a day
However, the public hydrogen station is not only intended for passenger cars.
“We currently have fifty active, business customers who come here to refuel, with whom we already have a deal. They have a truck, van or van and have already gone to another location in Groningen.”
The new location was a necessary leap forward. Holthausen: “A petrol station must be open 24 hours a day, seven days a week. It must be easily accessible, in a good through location. We have it now. We are on the Bornholmstraat near the ring road. It is made in such a way that you can stand here with a truck in addition to your car.”
‘Just as fast as diesel in a car’
The location has another asset. “We have a superfast charging station. This allows you to fill a truck with hydrogen just as quickly as you fill a car with diesel. If you compare it and express it in electric charging (with a middle-class electric car in the best possible conditions with 150kWh, ed.), then we charge here with 600kWh. That’s mega fast. In ten minutes you just have such a truck full.”
Successful
With the opening of the station, the door is ajar for more customers, Holthausen knows on the basis of customer requests. “There are large customers who waited for such a place to refuel, such as a truck that collects milk from farmers and brings it from Marum to Bedum.”
“It was a long road here. We started the whole hydrogen thing about seven years ago, but we succeeded. Now it’s here.” Thanks for staying up to date with Hydrogen Central.
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Holthausen proud of new public hydrogen filling station: ‘It’s really fast’, November 14, 2021
