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Warum die deutsche Autoindustrie die innovativste der Welt bleibt.
Warum die deutsche Autoindustrie die innovativste der Welt bleibt.
- Topics
- Innovations
- Innovationen 2021
- Hydrogen fuel-cell drives
Hydrogen instead of batteries
Parallel to battery-electric electromobility, BMW is developing drives with hydrogen. A BMW was already running on hydrogen as early as 1979 - at that time with a hydrogen combustion engine. Now BMW is working on a new test fleet of the current X5 with hydrogen fuel-cell drives.
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The X5 can be refueled with six kilograms of hydrogen for a full range in just four minutes.
Invented by Jürgen Guldner and team at BMW.
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