Fuel Cell Truck Nikola

How christian appel is helping get a fuel cell truck on the road.

Fuel cell truck nikola.

Fuel cell electric trucks from nikola motor pack a lot of technology and design treatments that are not unusual for passenger cars but rare in heavy duty trucking. It s an electrifying opportunity and it could well herald. The bosch engineer christian appel is working with the nikola motor company startup to develop the world s first 40 ton truck to feature a fuel cell powertrain. The fuel cell system itself is.

Hydrogen has more than 80 years of industrial use as a nonirritating nontoxic and noncorrosive source of energy. The nikola badger is a battery electric fuel cell pickup truck that boasts a claimed driving range of up to 600 miles and a peak output of 980 lb ft of torque. Nikola has been very up front that hydrogen fuel cell trucks really only have an advantage over battery electric trucks on long haul routes where the time required to recharge a massive truck. That s the latest insult elon musk threw at hydrogen fuel cells which power trucks made by competitor nikola motors nkla a stock that has rocketed a crazy 500 since april.

Nikola motor company the arizona startup that made its debut as a publicly traded company june 4 will open reservations later this month for a hydrogen fuel cell electric pickup truck that was. Nasa has funded more than 200 research contracts exploring fuel cell technology bringing it to a level now viable for the private sector. Elon musk mocks nikola s hydrogen cars explains why fuel cells won t work by sissi cao 06 11 20 4 04pm tesla ceo elon musk thinks hydrogen fuel cells are an extremely inefficient way of. Nikola motor s semi trucks including the nikola two shown here require fuel cell stacks for power.

The company had been working with sweden s powercell to provide them.