Everfuel and Vestische Straßenbahnen GmbH have signed a contract to jointly test Everfiller. The contract value is approximately EUR 1.1 million. The Everfiller is a mobile hydrogen refuelling station particularly suitable for refuelling smaller vehicle fleets and for operators which do not currently refuel large hydrogen volumes as often seen at conventional fixed refuelling stations.

Everfuel experience that many fleet operators acknowledge hydrogen as a viable solution to decarbonise their fleet, but currently lacks suitable hydrogen refuelling solutions, particularly for entry-level applications. The Everfiller lowers these barriers of entry and makes hydrogen accessible to operators with small vehicle fleets. The Everfiller is also suitable for demonstration projects and initial test fleets.

As the demand for hydrogen increases, Everfuel can substitute the Everfiller with a stationary H2 filling station, and thus use the mobile asset elsewhere.      Vestische Straßenbahnen GmbH operates more than 260 of its own buses in the district of Recklinghausen, in the city of Bottrop and in the northern part of the city of Gelsenkirchen. The company has initiated the transition to sustainable solutions for public transport and is one of the pioneers in the use of alternative drives in bus transport.

In the second half of 2023, the first five fuel cell buses are to be sequentially integrated into the Vestische bus fleet. At the start of the project, the busses will be refuelled with the Everfiller at the depot in Herten.