{"id":40861,"date":"2023-01-20T12:04:12","date_gmt":"2023-01-20T17:04:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/autosector.com\/?p=40861"},"modified":"2023-01-20T12:04:12","modified_gmt":"2023-01-20T17:04:12","slug":"1138492_nikola-has-a-mobile-hydrogen-station-for-fuel-cell-trucks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/autosector.com\/?p=40861","title":{"rendered":"Nikola has a mobile hydrogen station for fuel-cell trucks"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Nikola wants to use mobile hydrogen stations to support its fuel-cell trucks.<\/p>\n<p>The company on Wednesday that it had developed a trailer-mounted mobile fueling rig that can deliver hydrogen at 10,000 psi. It plans to display the rig publicly next week. The first unit &#8220;has completed commissioning and testing and has been released for market operation,&#8221; according to a Nikola press release.<\/p>\n<p><span id=\"static-marker-video-player-primis\"\/><\/p>\n<div class=\"image_wrapper first_wrapper\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" name=\"tccimg_100805402_m\" title=\"Nikola Tre\" src=\"data:image\/png;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAAD\/ACwAAAAAAQABAAACADs=\" alt=\"Nikola Tre\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" class=\"first_image lazy\" data-width=\"1024\" data-height=\"576\" data-url=\"https:\/\/images.hgmsites.net\/lrg\/nikola-tre_100805402_l.jpg\" data-src-h=\"https:\/\/images.hgmsites.net\/hug\/nikola-tre_100805402_h.jpg\" data-src=\"https:\/\/images.hgmsites.net\/lrg\/nikola-tre_100805402_l.jpg\" data-src-l=\"https:\/\/images.hgmsites.net\/lrg\/nikola-tre_100805402_l.jpg\" data-src-m=\"https:\/\/images.hgmsites.net\/med\/nikola-tre_100805402_m.jpg\" data-src-s=\"https:\/\/images.hgmsites.net\/sml\/nikola-tre_100805402_s.jpg\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Nikola Tre<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>Additional units are scheduled for completion later in the first quarter of this year, forming part of a &#8220;mobile fueler program&#8221; to supplement permanent hydrogen stations. This program will use a mix of Nikola-owned mobile hydrogen stations and some owned by third parties, according to the company.<\/p>\n<p data-pm-slice=\"1 1 []\">Nikola previously said it plans <a href=\"https:\/\/www.greencarreports.com\/news\/1137569_nikola-60-hydrogen-truck-fueling-stations-by-2026-incentives\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">60 hydrogen stations by 2026<\/a>, aided partly by government incentives, but this may help it get trucks out in the meantime and meet their needs. It&#8217;s looking for <a href=\"https:\/\/www.greencarreports.com\/news\/1137689_natural-gas-may-power-nikola-hydrogen-hubs-fuel-cell-trucks\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">natural gas<\/a> to power some fueling hubs and trucks.<\/p>\n<div class=\"image_wrapper\" readability=\"7\"><img decoding=\"async\" name=\"tccimg_100862662_m\" title=\"Nikola Tre hydrogen fuel-cell truck\" src=\"data:image\/png;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAAD\/ACwAAAAAAQABAAACADs=\" alt=\"Nikola Tre hydrogen fuel-cell truck\" width=\"640\" height=\"295\" data-width=\"1024\" data-height=\"473\" data-url=\"https:\/\/images.hgmsites.net\/lrg\/nikola-tre-hydrogen-fuel-cell-truck_100862662_l.jpg\" data-src-h=\"https:\/\/images.hgmsites.net\/hug\/nikola-tre-hydrogen-fuel-cell-truck_100862662_h.jpg\" data-src=\"https:\/\/images.hgmsites.net\/lrg\/nikola-tre-hydrogen-fuel-cell-truck_100862662_l.jpg\" data-src-l=\"https:\/\/images.hgmsites.net\/lrg\/nikola-tre-hydrogen-fuel-cell-truck_100862662_l.jpg\" data-src-m=\"https:\/\/images.hgmsites.net\/med\/nikola-tre-hydrogen-fuel-cell-truck_100862662_m.jpg\" data-src-s=\"https:\/\/images.hgmsites.net\/sml\/nikola-tre-hydrogen-fuel-cell-truck_100862662_s.jpg\" class=\"lazy\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Nikola Tre hydrogen fuel-cell truck<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p data-pm-slice=\"1 1 []\">This network will provide hydrogen for customers operating the Nikola Tre, a Class 8 fuel-cell semi truck with a claimed range of 500 miles, which Nikola plans to build at a new factory in Coolidge, Arizona. Per an agreement announced in 2021, those U.S.-assembled trucks will use <a href=\"https:\/\/www.greencarreports.com\/news\/1133465_nikola-looks-to-bosch-not-gm-for-hydrogen-fuel-cell-components\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">fuel-cell components from Bosch<\/a>. Nikola also has a joint venture with truck maker Iveco to assemble Tre semis at that firm&#8217;s Ulm, Germany, plant.<\/p>\n<p data-pm-slice=\"1 1 []\">Nikola has refocused on fuel-cell commercial trucks recently after some mission creep under founder Trevor Milton, who was <a href=\"https:\/\/www.greencarreports.com\/news\/1133062_founder-of-fuel-cell-startup-nikola-charged-with-securities-fraud-here-s-what-s-alleged\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">charged with securities fraud<\/a> in 2021 for allegedly misleading investors. Milton pursued a pickup truck called the Badger and a partnership with General Motors, but Nikola has since walked back many of these projects.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Nikola wants to use mobile hydrogen stations to support its fuel-cell trucks. The company on Wednesday that it had developed a trailer-mounted mobile fueling rig that can deliver hydrogen at 10,000 psi. It plans to display the rig publicly next week. The first unit &#8220;has completed commissioning and testing and has been released for market [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":40862,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"","ast-site-content-layout":"default","site-content-style":"default","site-sidebar-style":"default","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-banner-title-visibility":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","ast-disable-related-posts":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":"","astra-migrate-meta-layouts":"default","ast-page-background-enabled":"default","ast-page-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"ast-content-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-40861","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-design-concepts"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/autosector.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40861","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/autosector.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/autosector.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/autosector.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/autosector.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=40861"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/autosector.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40861\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/autosector.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/40862"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/autosector.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=40861"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/autosector.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=40861"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/autosector.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=40861"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}