宝马汽车制造，南卡罗来纳州斯帕坦堡工厂，拥有超过一倍，其舰队的氢动力材料处理设备，利用系统提供的林德北美。4.0万平方英尺的生产设施，现在权力全部230多台氢燃料电池车队的维修工厂的生产和物流功能，使得它在世界上最大的燃料电池叉车的网站之一。

 “宝马清洁生产的持续承诺是显而易见的，在我们最近扩展我们的氢燃料电池计划，希曼”邓肯说，宝马集团的市场运作，主管美洲。

 2010年，林德六个室内饮水机站提供的氢燃料系统，支持超过100件的材料处理设备的运行宝马的工厂内。2013年扩张一倍以上他们的舰队，加入两个新的更高的吞吐量压缩机，新的存储管及分销管道，8个新的氢掌柜。到今天为止，已经有超过200,000成功氢fuelings的现场。

 宝马列出的好处：

• 这些叉车使用林德的设备氢加油需要一个操作不到三分钟，比15-20分钟，改变了电池;
• 燃料电池不随着时间的推移，当他们开始失去他们负责向移位年底做铅酸蓄电池;
• 电力总需求减少，因为没有电池需要充电;
• 铅酸电池的环保处置费用的成本被淘汰。

• BMW Manufacturing’s plant in Spartanburg, South Carolina, has more than doubled its fleet of hydrogen-powered material handling equipment, using systems supplied by Linde North America. The 4.0 million square foot production facility now powers its entire hydrogen-fuel cell fleet of more than 230 units to service the plant’s production and logistics functions, making it one of the largest fuel cell forklift sites in the world.

  “BMW’s ongoing commitment to clean production is evident in our recent expansion of our hydrogen fuel cell program,” said Duncan Seaman, BMW Group, Head of Market Operations, Americas.

  In 2010, Linde supplied a hydrogen fueling system with six indoor dispenser stations to support more than 100 pieces of material handling equipment operating inside BMW’s plant. The 2013 expansion more than doubled their fleet by adding two new higher-throughput compressors, new storage tubes and distribution piping, and eight new hydrogen dispensers. To date, there have been over 200,000 successful hydrogen fuelings at the site.

  BMW lists the benefits:

  • refueling these fork lift trucks with hydrogen using Linde’s equipment takes an operator less than three minutes, compared with 15-20 minutes to change out a battery;
  • fuel cells do not degrade over time, as do lead-acid batteries when they begin losing their charge toward the end of a shift;
  • total electricity demand is reduced since no battery recharging is required; and
  • cost of environmental disposal costs for lead acid battery is eliminated.