Funding Programmes for climate-friendly Mobility

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In the fields of hydrogen and fuel cell technology, battery and charging infrastructure, off-grid power supply, and LNG and power-based fuels, our technical expertise covers vehicles and infrastructure, from the development of individual components and the testing of systems to the procurement of vehicles and the construction of the associated refuelling and charging infrastructure. This knowledge is reflected in the design and further development of the funding programmes for climate-friendly mobility that we coordinate. Find the right funding programme for your project now. On the subpages of the funding programmes, you will find further information on current funding opportunities, contact persons and projects that have already been funded.

Funding programmes: Alternative Fuels & Technologies

Promote innovative technologies to make the mobility and energy sector emission-free based on renewable fuels.
Nahaufnahme eines Elektrolyseurs

Renewable fuels

The Federal Ministry for Transport (BMV) promotes renewable fuels with a technology-neutral and cross-modal overall concept, which is flanked by regulatory measures of the Federal Government.

Funding for Renewable Fuels
Car at a hydrogen refueling station

Hydrogen and fuel cell technology

The National Innovation Programme Hydrogen and Fuel Cell Technology is aimed at research and development and, since its continuation in 2016, in particular at projects and ventures that support market launch.

Funding for Hydrogen and Fuel Cells

Export Initiative Environmental Protection

The Export Initiative Environmental Protection of the Federal Ministry for the Environment, Climate Action, Nature Conservation and Nuclear Safety (BMUKN) is intended to disseminate environmental technologies and thus make a concrete contribution to sustainable development and better living conditions in other countries.

Promotion of the Export Initiative Environmental Protection
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Information and Technology Centres

Green hydrogen and its derivatives are to be established as energy carriers and thus make a significant contribution to achieving climate targets. Measure 10 of the action plan of the National Hydrogen Strategy from 2020 provided for the examination of the establishment of an Innovation and Technology Centre for Hydrogen Technologies (ITZ-H2).

Innovation and Technology Center for Hydrogen Technologies
Klimafreundliche Bodenstromversorgung am Flughafen mit einer eGPU

Ground power at airports

With the directive on grants for the promotion of alternative technologies for the climate and environmentally friendly supply of aircraft with ground power at airports, the Federal Ministry for Transport (BMV) supports the defossilisation of the airport campus.

Funding ground power at airports
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Funding programmes: Alternative Drives

The right technology for every application to reduce emissions.
Battery electric vehicle at parking slot

Electric mobility with battery

Based on the current Electric mobility Funding Guideline, the Federal Ministry for Transport (BMV) is promoting battery-electric applications in three funding areas.

Funding for Electric mobility
Gelenkbus der Berliner Verkehrsbetriebe

Buses with alternative drives

The funding focuses on the procurement of buses with alternative drives based on battery, battery overhead line and fuel cell technology, as well as buses that are operated 100 % with methane produced from biomass.

Funding for Climate-Friendly Buses
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Climate-friendly commercial vehicles

Within the framework of the "Directive on the Promotion of Commercial Vehicles with Alternative, Climate-Friendly Drives and Associated Refuelling and Charging Infrastructure" (KsNI), the BMV has been supporting the purchase of climate-friendly commercial vehicles and the associated refuelling and charging infrastructure since 2021.

Funding for Climate-Friendly Commercial Vehicles
LNG Seeschiff mit Containern

Climate-friendly Shipping & Ports

The technological options for zero-emission shipping are very diverse. Depending on the ship type and operating profile, ship energy systems can be optimally combined with each other depending on the various fuel options in order to pave the way for the maritime energy transition in the interests of climate protection.

Funding for Climate-Friendly Shipping & Ports
Hydrogen train "Coradia iLint" in operation

Alternative drives in rail transport

The aim of this funding guideline is to increase the share of low-emission drives in rail transport.

Funding for Climate-Friendly Rail Transport

We are currently coordinating funding programmes primarily for the Federal Ministry for Transport (BMV) and the Federal Ministry for the Environment, Climate Action, Nature Conservation and Nuclear Safety (BMUKN).

Looking for a contact person?

You can find our experts on funding programmes for climate-friendly mobility here.