Forward together towards sustainable mobility - Linde's CEO Wolfgang Reitzle is now driving a hydrogen-powered BMW Hydrogen 7

Munich. For Professor Dr. Wolfgang Reitzle, the objective is clear:
"Hydrogen-powered cars should become an everyday sight on our streets." Today
in Munich, the Chairman of the Executive Board of Linde AG is practising what
he preaches by collecting a BMW Hydrogen 7 at the Linde Hydrogen Center. A
brand new model of the first top-end saloon in the world with a bivalent
hydrogen-powered combustion engine was handed over by Professor Dr. Joachim
Milberg, Chairman of the Supervisory Board of the BMW Group.

"BMW and Linde are working closely together to achieve sustainable mobility
using hydrogen as a fuel", said Professor Dr. Reitzle. "With the BMW Hydrogen
7, BMW has taken a very important step towards mass production. For me, this
vehicle is much more than just a new company car. The BMW Hydrogen 7 proves
that hydrogen technology is suitable for everyday use." The new company car
will be refuelled with climate-neutral hydrogen at the Linde Hydrogen Center in
Unterschleißheim, which currently supplies BMW's own test vehicles.

Professor Dr. Milberg said: "We need network partners from the fields of
politics, the sciences and economics, so that we can continue to develop and
expand appropriate infrastructures and technologies to support the use of
hydrogen as a fuel. Linde and BMW are united by a common vision of achieving
sustainable production and supply of hydrogen."

For years, Linde has been at the cutting edge of the development of
environmentally-friendly hydrogen technology. The company offers the complete
range of technologies required for the functioning of a hydrogen value chain -
from production to refuelling. Linde is involved in a wide range of initiatives
which aim to demonstrate the suitability of hydrogen as an everyday fuel and is
BMW's exclusive gases partner in its CleanEnergy Project. Linde has also
assumed a leading role as a supplier of mobile refuelling systems.

Linde and BMW see Germany's position as a centre of innovation being reinforced
by the creation of an infrastructure of hydrogen filling stations. Earlier this
year, the Linde Hydrogen Center in Unterschleißheim was voted as one of the
"365 Landmarks" by the federal initiative "Germany - Land of Ideas".

BMW has already produced a series of 100 models of the BMW Hydrogen 7, the
first top-end saloon in the world with a hydrogen-powered combustion engine
with bivalent drive. In the Hydrogen 7, BMW has combined hydrogen technology
with the handling, performance and luxurious comfort of a typical BMW. The
vehicles will be presented in the course of 2007 to selected individuals in
political and economic spheres and eminent members of society, for use as
everyday road vehicles.

Text and visual material with further information on the technology of the BMW
Hydrogen 7 is available in the BMW Press Club at www.press.bmwgroup.com