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Fuel cell reach truck tested
April 1st 2010

The first reach truck in Germany with a fuel cell drive, a Still FM-X 20, is being tested at BASF Coatings AG in Münster. Other partners in the project are Hoppecke (fuel cell system developer and integrator), Linde Gas (hydrogen fuelling station) and the federal state of North Rhine-Westphalia, as part of the 'progres.nrw' funding program.

This means that two different trucks with the future oriented drive will be operating at BASF Coatings in an industrial application: the Still FM-X 20 reach truck and an R60-25 electric truck. The FM-X 20 reach truck delivers finished goods for despatch at the BASF Coatings distribution centre and the R60 moves manufacturing raw materials from the logistics warehouse to the production. The two trucks are refuelled at the hydrogen fuelling station built on the site.

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