Sixt CEO Calls for Government Subsidies for Hydrogen Refuelling Stations

The chief executive of German car rental firm Sixt supported hydrogen-fuelled cars in a newspaper interview on Sunday and made a plea for state support to build up a network of filling stations.

"Politicians must finally bring themselves to throw their weight behind a certain technology (alluding to hydrogen cars) ... we need more financial support," he told the Sunday paper Frankfurter Allgemeine Sonntagszeitung.

Sixt said he believed the technology had more environmental merits than natural gas-fuelled cars, for which the network of filling stations was also too small, and superior to electric cars, whose range he said was too small for business travellers.

"Change can only come with subsidies. You can also do it with tax relief," Sixt said.

Source: Fuel Cell Today