Busse stehen rum, weil es keine Tanke gibt
Buses are sitting around because there is no gas station
[Translation via DeepL]
Potsdam/Cottbus – Brandenburg’s major cities are failing to convert their public transport systems to modern drive systems. Potsdam is waiting in vain for the electric buses it ordered. The Cottbus hydrogen fleet lacks a filling station.
Forty-six new hydrogen buses stand side by side at the Cottbusverkehr depot. Each vehicle cost €650,000, subsidized with a lot of taxpayer money. But the buses can’t run—they don’t have any hydrogen.
A filling station for the compressed gas is still under construction. But even its completion in the first half of 2026 will not help: the local energy company LEAG will not be able to deliver the electrolyzer for producing hydrogen from green electricity until next fall.
That is why, since July, buses have been supposed to be filled with “green” hydrogen from tanks. However, the Berlin-based contractor is still working on the “mobile filling station.” Neither the hydrogen supplier nor Cottbusverkehr will say whether and when it will go into operation. They say they are “in the final stages of coordination.”
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