World’s first hydrogen station for commercial trucks opens – is it too late

Welcome to the world's first hydrogen station for big trucks!

FirstElement Fuels has opened the world’s first large-scale hydrogen fueling station for heavy-duty commercial trucks just outside the Port of Oakland.

The company claims its hydrogen pumps can “fill” a truck’s hydrogen tanks in as little as ten minutes,

which works out to as many as 200 trucks per day.

The US federal government is handing out $8 billion to jump-start what it calls the “hydrogen economy,”

and expects sufficient funding to build up to 60 more hydrogen truck stations like this one in California.

Despite the challenges, Shane Stephens, one of FirstElement’s founders and its chief development officer, remains undeterred,

stating, “We see the regulations on the horizon, the OEMs and fleet owners are going to have to respond to that, especially when it comes to goods movement, and hydrogen and fuel cells are the best – if not only – solution that will work for many of those use cases.”

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