The new filling station is situated directly on the Westautobahn A1 – one of Europe’s most important traffic axes. The OMV station enhances Austria’s connection to a Europe-wide hydrogen filling station network for vehicles powered by fuel cells.
OMV already has extensive experience in producing hydrogen: The Schwechat Refinery can already produce around 50,000 tonnes of hydrogen a year; this is enough to power Vienna’s fleet of 850,000 vehicles for a half year.
“We assume that the fuel mix at the filling stations of the future will be far more diverse. Fossil fuels will continue to play an important role. But it is also clear to us that we will research future energies such as hydrogen. The availability of this element is practically unlimited and it is low in emissions”, says Wilfried Gepp, OMV.
OMV has an annual refining capacity of 17.8 mn tonnes and approximately 3,800 filling stations in 11 countries including Turkey as of end 2015.
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