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Originally Posted by Spuds
They managed to reduce stack weight by 50% and increase power. But then increased vehicle weight by 200lb? Possibly due to the increased size or fuel tank layout/capacity?
Good job making a real car out of it at least. Wish we had hydrogen stations in more places.
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Larger platform. More luxury.
We don’t even have enough here in California—just 42. The first station opened May 2014 and in six and a half years we have 42. We have around 2k Tesla Supercharger stations and over 16k stalls on top of tens of thousands of Tesla Destination chargers, and there are universal 3rd party fast chargers too. Tesla went from the first six to 2k in eight years. At the rate hydrogen stations are going up, it will take 300 years to match the number of Tesla Superchargers now. I know Toyota hasn’t sold many Mirais, but it seems like a large investment for something that isn’t well supported with infrastructure. Tesla alone has 10x the stations now of what they plan to make in hydrogen stations by 2025! I feel like unless hydrogen picks up steam quickly, which is unlikely, and unless battery development hits a bottleneck soon, which is unlikely, the argument for whether EVs or hydrogen cars will prevail in the near future is all but concluded. The production numbers now are so stark, as to already reach that conclusion, but this information about the state of the stations is just another nail in the coffin.
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For nearly four years, there has been just one fueling station in the San Diego area for the few owners of hydrogen cell vehicles to fill up their cars.
But the California Energy Commission has OK’d $39.1 million to help construct 36 new hydrogen fueling stations across the state, with a portion of that money going to four new stations in San Diego County.
A spokeswoman for Shell said its station in Carlsbad is part of the company’s larger program to develop 51 refueling stations over about six years.
There are 42 hydrogen fueling locations across the state and the Energy Commission’s funding is aimed at helping boost sales.
“This award puts us well beyond 100 stations, potentially upward of about 180 stations open or in development,” said Keith Malone, spokesman for the Fuel Cell Partnership. “That really helps us get much closer to the next milestone of 200 stations” by 2025 that then-Gov. Jerry Brown issued in an executive order two years ago.
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