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Editor's Note: This news item was retrieved and first published through Forbes' website.
Forbes reports on hydrogen fueled vehicles, particularly for heavy vehicles like trains and long-haul semis, to be a trend in the next decade. Electric cars have become viable because “battery costs plummeted when production scaled up and the same is likely with fuel cells and renewable hydrogen,” says transportation researcher Dan Sperling, a University of California, Davis, professor and a member of the state’s Air Resources Board which sets the nation’s toughest exhaust pollution rules.
According to Forbes writer Alan Ohnsman, "The first zero-emission “hydrail” project in the U.S. will be in Southern California, where the San Bernardino County Transportation Authority plans to operate a FLIRT H2 train from Swiss supplier Stadler from 202." French industrial conglomerate Alstom already has hydrogen-powered Coradia iLint trains running in Germany on a commuter rail line, with more headed to France and the U.K. This paves the way for heavy duty commercial vehicles, and then even RVs and cars. If all goes well, by 2022 Phoenix-based Nikola will be making eight tons of green hydrogen daily from renewable electricity at each fuel station, enough to keep 250 trucks running.
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