The flex-fuel burner can use hydrogen, methane or any mix of the two in paint dryers, one of the biggest sources of energy demand in car making.
The fuel has been in use at the plant for almost a decade and now powers 130 forklift trucks as well as tug trains which ferry parts around the plant with five hydrogen filling stations on the plant, the latest of which operates fully automated. The company is also working with partners to trial use of hydrogen in road haulage, it said.
The carmaker is participating in the H2Haul project launched in 2019 between Belgium, Germany, France and Switzerland piloting 16 fuel-cell trucks and install high capacity filling stations. BMW’s part in the project is the running of two of the trucks between Plant Leipzig and Nuremberg.
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