10,000 Hydrogen Cars Planned for US Northeast

Just recently, a new series of Hydrogen and Fuel Cell Development plans from the Northeast Electrochemical Energy Storage Cluster (NEESC) claim that there will be 10,800 fuel cell vehicles and 110 hydrogen refueling stations by 2025. This new plan is an addition to the eight-state agreement from 2014 to have 3.3 million emission-free vehicles on the road by 2025. So far, the plan has been outlined for Connecticut, Massachusetts, New Jersey, New York, and Rhone Island. The other three states - Maine, New Hampshire, and Vermont - do not have specific plans as of yet.

Blanco also gave the press release of the announcement from the NEESC. According to them, the plans were created with support from the Small Business Administration (SBA) and from various industry stakeholders including automakers, gas suppliers, and fuel cell companies. As electric vehicles will slowly replace gasoline vehicles, stress will be put on the US electrical grid. If hydrogen vehicles are also integrated into the market, emissions will be cut down immensely and the stress on electricity will decline as hydrogen cars use other sources of power. Lastly, once these vehicles make it on the market, is is predicted that the hydrogen and fuel cell business will capture a huge share of the global energy and transportation market and will significantly increase the number of clean energy jobs in the Northeast.

As stated in the news press, the plan is to have about 1,300 megawatts of stationary fuel cell capacity, 10,800 fuel cell cars, 640 fuel cell buses, and 110 hydrogen refueling stations by 2025.

This is great information for the final essay. It shows just how much the fuel cell industry is going to grow and improve just within the next decade. It will take a while to implement fuel cells nationwide, but states are realizing the benefits of fuel cell technology and are becoming more willing to accommodate for it.

APA Citation:

Blanco, S. (2015, March 1). 10,000 hydrogen cars planned for US northeast. Retrieved March 27, 2015, from autoblog.com: www.autoblog.com/2015/03/01/10000-hydrogen-car-plan-us-northeast/

MLA Citation:

Blanco, Sebastian. 10,000 hydrogen cars planned for US northeast. 1 March 2015. 27 March 2015. <www.autoblog.com/2015/03/01/10000-hydrogen-car-plan-us-northeast/>.