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A road trip on the hydrogen highway
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Today on the flagship podcast of hydrogen futures:
The Verge’s William Poor, Andrew Marino, and Alex Parkin head to California to figure out why hydrogen fuel cell technology, once a super-promising successor to gasoline, lost out to battery electric cars. They also put the embattled tech to the test with a road trip across California’s “hydrogen highway.”
Further reading:
Check out the interactive map of our trip here, and the video version of the story here.
Read Andrew Hawkins’ story about the future of hydrogen fuel cell tech here.
Read Justine Calma’s coverage of federal green hydrogen programs here.
Go deep into California zero emission transportation policy here.
Credits:
Fact Check by Jasmine Arielle Ting
Thanks to:
Bill Elrick, Hydrogen Fuel Cell Partnership
Michael McCurdy, California State Library
Archival footage courtesy of Global ImageWorks, LLC
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