Overview
- President Frank-Walter Steinmeier presented the €250,000 prize in Berlin to Christoffer Uhr, Kai Weeber and Pierre Andrieu of Bosch.
- Organizers say the fuel-cell system generates electricity from hydrogen to enable long-haul operation without range or payload limits.
- A fuel-cell truck is reported to be about four tonnes lighter than a comparable battery model, with refueling taking only a few minutes.
- The team says the technology suits buses, forklifts and stationary generators used in disaster response or data centers.
- This was the 29th Deutscher Zukunftspreis, with other nominees from Hamburg and Thuringia including a plastic-free biomaterial venture and Zeiss Meditec’s eye-laser innovation.