Air Liquide Plans for Long-Term Growth in Hydrogen-Powered Cars
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Air Liquide SA is expanding its business building filling stations for hydrogen-powered cars as it predicts growing demand for the vehicles that emit only water by using fuel cells to generate electricity.
“In territories like Germany or France, you need about 1,000 stations” for full coverage, Pierre-Etienne Franc, head of the Advanced Business and Technologies unit, said in an interview at the French gas maker’s research center in Sassenage near Grenoble. “It takes about 10 billion euros ($13.7 billion) to build a decent fuel-cell infrastructure in Europe.”