A hydrogen fuel supply problem in Germany is continuing into its eighth week following an H2 truck trailer explosion back in August, with at least 23 of the country’s 83 filling stations out of action yesterday evening.
A truck trailer carrying hydrogen cylinders exploded on 26 August at industrial gases giant Linde’s facility at the Leuna Chemical Park in eastern Germany due to a suspected, unexplained H2 leak.
Although no-one was hurt in the deflagration, all trailers of the same type have been taken out of circulation until the cause of the leak has been unidentified and a potential remedy deployed — which means that there is currently no way of getting hydrogen to many filling stations across Germany.
As of yesterday evening, according to the H2.live website, there were 12 filling stations that had run out of fuel due to the supply problem, with another two listed as running out of fuel without attributing blame, while a further three were listed as out of service and unable to resupply due to the Leuna issue.
In addition, one Shell refuelling station in the central German town of Braunschweig had run out of 350-bar hydrogen (the pressure largely used by heavy-duty vehicles) due to the problem, but had not quite run out of 700-bar H2 used by cars.
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