Chatgpt generated California transit depot where hydrogen remains a niche beside a much larger battery electric fleet.
Ballard Power and New Flyer announced what sounds at first like a market-making agreement, a commercial arrangement for 500 fuel cell engines, or about 50 MW of modules, for hydrogen transit buses starting in 2026. On the surface, that reads like the kind of order that only appears when a … [continued]
ChatGPT generated: Stellantis’ retreat from hydrogen is just the latest domino in a global chain reaction of fuel-cell mobility failures
Stellantis, one of the world’s five largest automakers and a proponent of hydrogen fuel cell electric vehicles for light commercial vehicles, has now formally signaled a retreat from its hydrogen ambitions. This pivot away from hydrogen-powered transportation represents yet another confirmation of the longstanding challenges faced by hydrogen in mobility … [continued]
ChatGPT generated a panoramic image of an abandoned hydrogen fueling station under grey skies, with cracked pavement and overgrown grass symbolizing stranded infrastructure
For years, I’ve been openly dismissive of the hydrogen for energy economy—particularly the financial prospects of its most hyped members, Plug Power, FuelCell Energy, and Ballard Power. The hydrogen-for-energy vision was never built on firm economic foundations. It relied heavily on the ongoing generosity of governments to subsidize fundamentally and … [continued]
ChatGPT generated landscape picture of zombies shambling through a rusting, closed hydrogen refueling station
Plug Power’s stock has dipped into dangerous territory, trading below the critical $1 threshold required by Nasdaq, signaling yet another existential crisis for the firm. This isn’t the first time Plug has flirted with financial oblivion, of course; the company executed a 1-for-10 reverse stock split back in 2011 to … [continued]
ChatGPT generated panoramic bird's eye image of a fleet of abandoned, broken windowed modern hydrogen fuel cell freight trucks covered in dirt and pigeon droppings parked in a weed filled field
Nikola, with its hydrogen trucks, has finally left the building. The company gained widespread attention after going public via a SPAC merger in 2020, briefly reaching a market valuation of over $30 billion. However, founder Trevor Milton was complicit in the SPAC pump and dump, misleading investors about Nikola’s technological … [continued]
ChatGPT generated panoramic image of an angry man shaking their fist out of the window of an abandoned, rusting hydrogen bus.
Over the past three weeks, I’ve been assessing various aspects of the Canadian Urban Transit Research and Innovation Consortium’s (CUTRIC) positions, research, and publications on transit bus decarbonization. I’ve published ten articles directly about CUTRIC’s material and reports, or closely related and with serious implications for their claims that both … [continued]
Ballard Power Systems is planning a gigantic fuel cell factory in Texas, which will help push fossil energy out of the heavy duty transportation sector (photo courtesy of Ballard).
If all goes according to plan, by 2027 Ballard Power Systems will be operating its new fuel cell factory in Texas at the 3-gigawatts level.
ChatGPT & DALL-E generated panoramic image visualizes the metaphor of Sisyphus with themes related to Ballard Power and hydrogen.
There are three long running supporting cast members in stagings of the sad farce that is trials of hydrogen for fleets, FuelCell Energy, Plug Power and Ballard Power Systems. All of their market capitalizations peaked roughly 99% above their current stock valuations in 2000. They’ve all participated in innumerable hydrogen … [continued]
Strohm and Siemens Gamesa thumb their noses at green hydrogen skeptics with new scheme for attaching electrolyzers to offshore wind turbines.
A new US fuel cell alliance is on a mission to evaporate diesel engines, and a green hydrogen angle would ding natural gas, too.
