Nice looking tractors, but where is the hydrogen station in the middle of the western US? Probably work ok back east.
I’ll keep my antique Peterbilt with its Cat 3406 E and avoid an ELD, thanks.
I fondly remember my father hauling travel trailers for Morgan Drive-Away on a low boy. In the Summer I’d occasionally go with him.
Lots of interest in this technology from fleets that return to the same location such as a warehouse or DC every night (like UPS for example). Companies like Air Products want to build hydrogen plants (natural gas reforming process) right at the facility. Such plants are scalble, safe, and relatively inexpensive.
Nikola plans to build >700 Solar powered hydrogen stations across the US and southern Canada to fuel these trucks. They have signed contracts for the first 8 stations and have supposedly broken ground on 2 of them. The equipment supplier is Nel Hydrogen, Nel built the national network of H2 stations in Denmark. A US National H2 network is a big thing.
Nikola also plans to sell hydrogen from these stations to anyone that wants it for ~$6.00 per Kilogram. Since a Kilogram of hydrogen will move a 4,000 pound car and 4 adults around 65 miles in a Toyota Mirai, that equals around $3.00 per gallon petrol prices. But the money stays in the country- no oil tankers, no refineries, no long distance delivery.
You can see Nikola’s plans for these stations on their website nikolamotor dot com
Toyota is building a hydrogen station at the Port of Long Beach to fuel hydrogen trucks. They have a prototype running now, search “toyota project portal”
France just said they want to lead the world in Hydrogen tech (which received almost no news coverage at all), and China has said the same thing in “Made in China 2025”. China is in the process of building “Hydrogen Cities”. It’s the next big thing, but you won’t hear much about it on the National News.