The use of hydrogen vehicles on the East Coast has even allowed Mr. Strizki’s talent for invention strained. On the West Coast, Arnold Schwarzenegger, the former governor of California, who owns a hydrogen Hummer, cleared regulatory barriers in 2004 with a pen strip. The East has a series of bureaucracies to navigate. Hydrogen, for example, is not authorized to travel via bridges and tunnels. “We do not want to evict a vehicle that you can not drive in Manhattan,” Gil Castillo said. He follows the regulations at Hyundai Motor North America.
In addition, Air Liquide, a gas manufacturer, quietly built five ready-made stations between Hempstead, NY, and Littleton, Massachusetts, and had to pay off state officials to the firefighter, said David Edwards, director of the Air Liquide hydrogen team in the United States. “Every place has its own firefighter.”
Progress is hampered by the impression that hydrogen is likely to explode, an idea captured by the burning of the Hindenburg in 1937. More recently, hydrogen took a hit when Nikola, a manufacturer of hydrogen-electric trucks and darling on the stock market, came to the point that he exaggerated his performance. The accusation comes from a short-selling firm called Hindenburg Research. The Department of Justice and the Securities and Exchange Commission have issued subpoenas to Nikola.
“Hydrogen is safer than gasoline in some ways,” said JoAnn Milliken, director of the New Jersey Fuel Cell Coalition, a volunteer group. Strizki knew of her time at the Department of Energy. She cited a 2019 study from Sandia National Laboratories that found that hydrogen cars were no longer a fire hazard than a normal vehicle.
Since Elon Musk mentions fuel cells’stunned dumb, ”There was a fierce rivalry between lithium-ion and hydrogen fans. Cooler heads see room for each. Electric is suitable for people with a garage who can travel limited distances and can charge overnight. But for long-distance trucks, hydrogen does not add weight and does not reduce the cargo space like batteries do. Furthermore, hydrogen tanks can be refilled within minutes.