For a man trying to buck a decades-long trend of failure, Juergen Guldner is curiously confident of his success. In BMW’s research lab in Munich, Guldner and his team are trying to do something that many car companies have attempted but none have managed. They are trying to build a mass-market hydrogen-powered car.
In February BMW announced that it was making up to 100 hydrogen-powered iX5s for handpicked customers around the world, with a view to bringing the vehicle into mass production by the end of the decade.
The iX5 SUV is essentially an electric vehicle (EV) with an onboard power station, a fuel cell that converts the stored hydrogen in its tank into electricity to power its motors. Trying to drive a long way