New EU requirements are on the way, which means that Denmark will be forced to re-install hydrogen stations. Something that otherwise completely disappeared last year.
New EU rules now force Denmark to re-build a number of hydrogen stations. That type of gas station otherwise disappeared completely when the last Danish ones of their kind closed last year.
But now the EU wants to force Denmark to build hydrogen stations no more than 200 kilometers apart. These are the rules of the Trans-European Transport Network (TEN-T), which mean that in Europe by 2030 at the latest, you must be able to drive from the northernmost part of the EU to the south in a hydrogen car without 'longer distances'.
The regulations state that there must be hydrogen stations with a maximum distance of 200 kilometers and additional stations in the larger cities.
However, the hydrogen cars may be able to hit the roads in greater numbers than is the case today, long before 2030.
By the New Year at the latest, Denmark must tell the EU Commission how it intends to meet the requirements in practice. And according to Motormagasinet, this is something the Ministry of Transport is working on.
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Earlier, the responsible minister Thomas Danielsen (V) stated that hydrogen stations are to be set up in Copenhagen, Odense, Aarhus and Aalborg.
When the last hydrogen stations closed in Denmark in 2023, it was also a farewell to the plan to set up a total of 20 hydrogen stations in the country. But now those stations can come back under compulsion.
According to Motormagazinet, there is no specific timetable for the installation of hydrogen stations in Denmark. At least not yet. But at least one prosecutor has already declared his interest in the Danish market.
It is Norwegian Norwegian Hydrogen that will utilize the energy from wind turbines at sea in Hirtshals to produce at least 500 tonnes of hydrogen per year.
On the car brands' side of the table, BMW and Toyota are two of the car brands that have openly stated that they are working with hydrogen technology. An agreement between the parties will enable BMW to send the brand's first series production of hydrogen cars onto the street in 2028.
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