Nikola Hydrogen Fuel Cell Truck

Nasa has funded more than 200 research contracts exploring fuel cell technology bringing it to a level now viable for the private sector.

Nikola hydrogen fuel cell truck.

Developing and commercializing battery electric and fuel cell class 8 trucks for short medium and long haul trucking. Nikola s vision is to disrupt the 1 2 trillion semi truck market. 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. 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.

As a testament to its commitment to cleaner vehicles nikola has already raised billions in funding to bring a hydrogen fuel cell semi truck to market. Hydrogen has more than 80 years of industrial use as a nonirritating nontoxic and noncorrosive source of energy. Nikola motor company makes hydrogen fuel cell electric sleeper semi trucks. The company hasn t.

Shares jumped more than. Nikola motor badger pickup. The fuel cell which generates electricity like batteries is lighter than the current generation of lithium ion. The nikola one is available in north america.

Nikola also plans a longer haul truck powered by a hydrogen fuel cell. 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. Gm said fuel cells will become more.