Bosch: Saarland and Rhineland-Palatinate want to cooperate on hydrogen

Rhineland-Palatinate and Saarland want to examine whether they can better promote the marketing and application of new hydrogen technologies. "Hydrogen is future music. And if we manage to compose a Saarland-Rhineland-Palatinate melody in the process, we have achieved a great deal for the people in our region," said Saarland's Minister-President Anke Rehlinger on Monday during a joint visit with her counterpart from Rhineland-Palatinate, Malu Dreyer (both SPD), to the automotive supplier Bosch in Homburg, Saarland.

At the site, one could experience how hydrogen components are invented and brought to mass production. "And that's why it's important now that we don't slow down this technology, that it doesn't get stuck at its current stage of development, but that it can enter the market even more and the necessary infrastructure is also created for it," said Rehlinger. They have exchanged views on this. "And I believe we can make a significant contribution with our two states," said Rehlinger.

It's about how politics can help ensure that the "market ramp-up" is such that developed products actually reach the consumer, said Dreyer. Companies see that this has been progressing too slowly so far. "That's why the question in the future will be: Do we need incentives to optimize and accelerate it?" And also how better networking can be achieved.