Daimler and Linde Group are planning to join forces with TOTAL, OMV, Avia and Hoyer to build new hydrogen fuelling stations in Germany with an investment of around €10m each.
All the ten new fuelling stations will be located in Geiselwind, Ulm, Karlsruhe, Neuruppin, Cologne-Bonn Airport, and Stuttgart-East.
The new project is a part of Fuel Cell Technology National Innovation Programme (NIP), and the National Organisation Hydrogen and Fuel Cell Technology (NOW) is offering its support to the project.
Linde sources half of the hydrogen from "green" sources for the existing CEP fuelling stations. It will also power 20 new stations with fully regenerative hydrogen.
Linde Clean Energy & Innovation Management head Dr Andreas Opfermann said: "We are pleased to be driving this expansion of Germany's H2 fuelling network.
"We are making a valuable contribution to the successful commercialisation of fuel-cell vehicles while supporting initiatives like the Clean Energy Partnership (CEP) and 'H2 Mobility'."
