Nikola Hydrogen Fuel Cell Truck

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Nikola hydrogen fuel cell truck.

Nikola motor company has just unveiled a huge class 8 truck as big as they get that s powered by a hydrogen fuel cell claiming it will have an operational range of as much as 1 200 miles 1. Developing and commercializing battery electric and fuel cell class 8 trucks for short medium and long haul trucking. Nikola also plans a longer haul truck powered by a hydrogen fuel cell. Shares jumped more than.

The nikola one is available in north america. Hydrogen fuel cells have been powering space shuttles since the early 1960 s. Nasa has funded more than 200 research contracts exploring fuel cell technology bringing it to a level now viable for the private sector. Gm said fuel cells will become more.

Nikola s vision is to disrupt the 1 2 trillion semi truck market. Developing and constructing a hydrogen fueling station. Hydrogen has more than 80 years of industrial use as a nonirritating nontoxic and noncorrosive source of energy. The much smaller nikola which touts a similar product powered by hydrogen fuel cells instead of lithium ion batteries like tesla sparked even greater investor excitement.

Nikola motor company makes hydrogen fuel cell electric sleeper semi trucks. Although it has secured 14 000 pre orders you could argue it was the most hated hydrogen stock out there. Gm will take an 11 ownership stake in the company and will engineer and build nikola s badger electric pickup truck and its signature hydrogen fuel cell.