H2 MOBILITY DEUTSCHLAND GMBH & CO KG

Their core work

H2 Mobility is a Berlin-based joint venture that builds and operates Germany's national network of hydrogen refuelling stations (HRS) for fuel cell electric vehicles (FCEVs). Their work sits at the commercial deployment end of the hydrogen economy: site acquisition, station construction, daily operations, retail pricing, and customer experience for hydrogen drivers. Within H2020, they contributed the real-world infrastructure and operational data that large European mobility pilots needed to test FCEV rollout at scale. They are the people you talk to when a research result needs to reach an actual pump that an actual car can drive up to.

What they specialise in

How they've shifted over time

In the first H2020 project (H2ME, starting 2015) their focus was foundational: building the HRS network, attracting early-adopter drivers, understanding consumer behaviour, and proving the TCO and LCA case for hydrogen mobility. By H2ME 2 (2016-2023) the vocabulary shifts from "rollout" and "early adopters" to "high utilisation", "grid balancing" and "energy storage". The trajectory is clear — from proving that stations can exist, to making them commercially busy and integrating them into the wider electricity system.

They are moving from "how do we build stations" to "how do we make stations a profitable, grid-connected energy asset" — a natural partner for anyone working on hydrogen-electricity sector coupling or fleet-scale FCEV deployment.

How they like to work

H2 Mobility joins as a participant rather than coordinator, acting as the industrial deployment arm inside very large consortia — 68 distinct partners across 11 countries in just two projects. They are loyal to the same flagship programme (H2ME then H2ME 2) rather than spreading across many unrelated calls, which tells you they pick a long-term theme and stay with it. Expect them to be the "reality check" partner who turns research into installed hardware, not the academic lead.

Connected to 68 consortium partners across 11 European countries, concentrated in the north-west European hydrogen corridor where H2ME and H2ME 2 deployed stations and vehicles.

What sets them apart

Most H2020 participants on hydrogen mobility are research institutes, vehicle OEMs or gas companies. H2 Mobility is different — it is the dedicated station operator, a joint venture whose single reason to exist is running the German HRS network. That means if your project needs actual pumps, actual refuelling data and a counterparty that can keep a station alive after the project ends, very few organisations in Europe offer that combination.

Highlights from their portfolio

• H2ME
  Their flagship participation at EUR 5.26M — the largest coordinated European rollout of hydrogen refuelling stations and FCEVs, where H2 Mobility supplied the German infrastructure backbone.
• H2ME 2
  The follow-on project that extends the network and introduces grid-balancing and energy-storage themes, signalling their move into sector-coupling use cases.