BeeZero will offer the vehicles out of Munich’s city centre as well as in nearby areas of Schwabing, Haidhausen, Au and Glockenbachviertel, booked online or via a smartphone app.

The new company is a subsidiary of The Linde Group, which opened a hydrogen station on Munich’s Detmoldstrasse last July, as part of a collaborative project with Total and BMW.

Dr Christian Bruch, member of the Executive Board of Linde AG, said:  “We expect to gain valuable information from day-to-day fleet operations which we will use to further develop our hydrogen technologies and to help expand the hydrogen infrastructure.

“BeeZero synergises two mobility trends that are gaining a lot of ground at the moment -car sharing and zero emissions -and will bring the benefits of fuel cell technology to a wider group of potential users.”