The Tesla Cybertruck is getting the passion CEO Elon Musk had hoped for, bragging that 200,000 pre-orders have already been positioned for the futuristic electrical pickup launched Thursday night time. However he is but to answer Nikola Motors CEO Trevor Milton’s offer to share his firm’s even cooler gasoline cell pickup design to achieve a “broader market.”
Nikola Motors is on the middle of a surge in help for hydrogen and gasoline cell autos that had been lacking. Musk for years has dismissed and ridiculed hydrogen gasoline cell autos, however the truck phase is grabbing maintain of it — together with cleantech and inexperienced energy advocates — who had beforehand all the time chosen electrical autos over gasoline cell. Consulting firm Cleantech Group calls it a brand new path to “decarbonize transportation.”
Nikola, Toyota, and Hyundai are being given credit score for opening up the “hydrogen highway” by way of what they’re bringing out in hydrogen-powered industrial vans. Daimler Vans, Kenworth, and truck engine maker Cummins are additionally getting into the race. Gas cell buses are one other…
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