Austrian Federal Minister Bures puts logistics vehicle with fuel cell hybrid drive as well as Europe’s first indoor hydrogen refuelling station into service
With the delivery of the first of a total of ten pallet trucks with fuel cell hybrid drive to project partner DB Schenker and the commissioning of the first indoor hydrogen refuelling facility in Europe, the project partners Linde Material Handling, Fronius International, DB Schenker, OMV, HyCentA Research and JOANNEUM RESEARCH today officially started the field phase of their “E-LOG Biofleet” research project, first presented in 2011. The starting signal was given by the Austrian Federal Minister for Transport, Innovation and Technology, Doris Bures. Her department finances the programme of the Climate and Energy Fund that makes resources available to subsidise the project.

“Since 2009 we have been promoting promising projects that lead technical innovations towards the market as part of our ‘Electromobility’s Technical Beacons’ programme. I am especially pleased to witness the first pilot trial starting within an industrial company with the E-LOG-Biofleet,” said Federal Minister Doris Bures. Fronius and Linde Material Handling had presented a truck with fuel cell drive at the 2011 CeMAT tradeshow. With DB Schenker as a project customer testing the suitability of fuel cell hybrid drive and OMV as a supplier of the hydrogen infrastructure, the research project team took up work the very same year. HyCentA and JOANNEUM RESEARCH accompany the project with the assessment of environmental compatibility, technical and economic analyses as well as in terms of project management.