Nikola One Hydrogen Fuel Cell Class 8 Truck Revealed In Salt Lake City

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1. Where will they get the hydrogen?

A semi-tractor is a cross country vehicle. The problems with this are two fold.

1. The lack of a hydrogen infrastructure. Where does this rig refuel?

2. Hydrogen is not an energy source. There are no natural molecular hydrogen sources on this planet. One has to generate hydrogen through some chemical/electrical process, which must take more energy than is generated by burning the hydrogen. (Thank you laws of thermodynamics.)

Therefore, there is no hydrogen economy separate from a substantial supportive clean energy infrastructure. Hydrogen fuel makes zero sense when the power to generate it comes from fossil fuels.

Zero sense!