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"This is a high-priority technology for this administration. And I will say one word about why and that is versatility," Deputy Secretary of Energy David Turk said at the time, highlighting hydrogen's use in energy storage, electricity generation, transportation and heavy industry. Despite global progress in clean hydrogen investment, "more efforts are needed" to reach net-zero greenhouse gas emissions by…

“After the electric car, which has been going on for about 10 years and scaling up rapidly, the next trend will be hydrogen,” he says. “When it's more scalable, hydrogen will be the hippest thing to drive.”

The fuel cells will be supplied by cellcentric – the joint venture between the Volvo Group and Daimler Truck AG. Cellcentric will build one of Europe’s largest series production facilities for fuel-cells, especially developed for heavy vehicles.

Through an analysis combining physical, epidemiological and statistical models, the team from UCI’s Advanced Power and Energy Program demonstrated that while greener buildings would provide a roughly 15 percent improvement in health outcomes for the broad state population, elimination of greenhouse gases (and other forms of air pollution) from heavy-duty, over-the-road trucking would more directly benefit low-income Californians who live…

In May, Renault announced plans to bring a hydrogen-powered family car to market by 2030.