'for cars and trucks'

Fountain Fuel puts finishing touches to hydrogen filling station at Rotterdam The Hague Airport

Het nieuwste waterstoftankstation van Fountain Fuel, de eerste in de gemeente Rotterdam, wordt gerealiseerd op het terrein van Rotterdam The Hague Airport. Foto: Fountain Fuel, 2026

Fountain Fuel is currently finalising the construction of a hydrogen filling station on Zaventembaan in Rotterdam, on the site of Rotterdam The Hague Airport. At the hydrogen filling station, the first in the municipality of Rotterdam, cars, trucks and delivery vans will soon be able to fill up with hydrogen.

Fountain Fuel’s hydrogen filling station in Rotterdam is located directly on the airport car park and less than 50 metres from an unmanned Tango. When completed, the location will be Fountain Fuel’s third hydrogen refuelling station in the Netherlands. In May 2023, the first opened at business park De Wieken in Amersfoort, followed in mid-February this year from a second site on Hollandiaweg at Industriepark Waal Energie in Nijmegen.

Both cars and trucks will soon be able to fill up with hydrogen at Zaventembaan in Rotterdam. There will then be two 700-bar dispensers and a 350-bar dispenser available that can be accessed from both sides.

Pillars

“Hydrogen is of great importance for the energy transition. It contributes to clean mobility and sustainable energy storage, two important pillars for the future,” says Stephan Bredewold, co-founder and director of Fountain Fuel. “Although battery-electric mobility currently dominates, the gap is expected to narrow in the future. This is why we opt for a combination of electric charging and hydrogen refuelling at our power stations.”

Sufficient facilities

For Rotterdam, it is important for entrepreneurs to have sufficient e-charging and hydrogen refuelling facilities to enable zero-emission driving into the city. “With Fountain Fuel, both private and business users in the region can easily refuel with hydrogen, be it passenger cars, vans or trucks,” Bredewold said.

Fountain Fuel aims to contribute to a nationwide network of energy stations, combining hydrogen refuelling and electric charging. After stations in Amersfoort, Nijmegen and soon Rotterdam, there are advanced plans for hydrogen refuelling stations in Assen-Noord, Barneveld, Hattemerbroek, Meerkerk and Zaltbommel.

H2IA

Fountain Fuel is part of the H2 Infrastructure Alliance (H2IA), a collaboration between six European hydrogen refuelling station operators, including Hydri, TEAL mobility, HYmpulsion, H2 Mobility and Virya Energy. Together, the six European operators operate a total of 92 stations and are planning 39 more before 2028.

During the Mobility Energy Expo trade fair held last November, Mobility Energy spoke at length with Stephan Bredewold of Fountain Fuel. You can watch the broadcast in its entirety via this link.

Also read:

This article was automatically translated from the Dutch language original to English (British).

Author: Paul Blonk

Source: MobilityEnergy.com

E-mail

Related posts

Government wind at the back Tyczka Hydrogen opens new green hydrogen refuelling station in Schweinfurt

Germany has added a fuelling station for green hydrogen. In the port of the Bavarian city of Schweinfurt, Tyczka Hydrogen’s new location was opened at a well-attended and festive event. The location focuses mainly on business and large vehicles and will be expanded in the near future with an electrolyser to make hydrogen on site.
remove obstacles South Holland sets pace with hydrogen

A new collaboration between the province of South Holland, two municipalities and several organisations should accelerate hydrogen innovations. LAUNCH2 aims to help solve challenges in infrastructure, regulation, financing and cooperation.
H2Life and HELIX-West Million grants for learning communities green hydrogen

The allocation of some €8.8 million to the HELIX-West and H2Life projects is an important support in developing a learning infrastructure for green hydrogen in the Netherlands. Experiments with green hydrogen are increasing, but what this sector will need in terms of knowledge and labour in the future is not yet clear. Thanks to the…
application period 6 weeks SWIM extends hydrogen subsidy for filling stations, vehicles and implements

Even more is possible for entrepreneurs in 2026 with the Hydrogen in Mobility subsidy scheme, SWIM for short. These include subsidies for mobile hydrogen storage, tubetrailers and hydrogen-powered tools. The rules for urban nodes and advances will also become more flexible.