BMW boss Zipse: Hydrogen "will be the hottest thing you can drive"
Created: 2022-10-27 06:00
By: Sebastian Oppenheimer
Most car manufacturers rely solely on battery-powered electric cars.
Not so BMW - the boss of the Munich manufacturer sees the future especially in hydrogen.
Most car manufacturers currently rely on electric drives.
Experts such as Stefan Bratzel, head of the Center of Automotive Management (CAM) in Bergisch Gladbach, or the renowned Fraunhofer Institute have already written off the hydrogen drive in cars.
At BMW, however, they do not dare to make a radical switch to electric drives, the customer should continue to have the choice, they recently emphasized.
BMW boss Oliver Zipse (58) has now stated that he sees the next trend in hydrogen in particular.
BMW boss Zipse: Hydrogen "will be the hottest thing you can drive"
In an interview in England, Zipse told Bloomberg that the next trend after the electric car would be hydrogen.
"If it's more scalable, hydrogen will be the trendiest thing to drive," said the BMW boss.
In fact, the Munich carmaker has already started producing a hydrogen vehicle: the BMW iX5 Hydrogen.
The fuel cell of the BMW iX5 Hydrogen is located in the engine compartment, is similar in size to a three-cylinder engine and weighs around 180 kilograms.
The tanks, in which the hydrogen is stored at a pressure of 700 bar, are located under the back seat and in the center tunnel and have a capacity of six kilograms - which corresponds to a range of around 600 kilometers.
The BMW iX5 Hydrogen is powered by hydrogen - for BMW boss Zipse the technology has a great future.
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BMW boss Zipse warns against just relying on one drive technology
The BMW boss warned against focusing solely on one technology: "To say that there will be only one powertrain in the UK around 2030 or in the UK and Europe in 2035 is a dangerous thing," Zipse told dem according to reports.
"From every point of view, this is a dangerous path for customers, for industry, for employment, for the climate."
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BMW's path is unusual because, among other things, its competitor Mercedes relies heavily on electric cars - even if the Stuttgart-based company has not yet committed itself to a concrete end to combustion engines like its other premium competitor Audi.
