Nikola motor company makes hydrogen fuel cell electric sleeper semi trucks.
Hydrogen fuel cell semi trucks.
Nikola an arizona startup developing futuristic semi trucks powered by hydrogen fuel cells and batteries is listing shares on nasdaq in an unusual merger with publicly traded acquisition firm.
The truck was designed and integrated by cummins in columbus indiana and includes a proton exchange membrane pem fuel cell from hydrogenics a recent addition to cummins.
Hydrogen powered kenworth semi trucks are being deployed in los angeles and long beach toyota and kenworth are launching a fleet of 10 fuel cell trucks to test the technology in the real world.
The truck was designed for a 90 kw fuel cell and is scalable in 30 kw or 45 kw increments up to 180 kw andalso has a 100 kwh lithium ion battery capacity.
From this early analysis it s clear the tesla semi has a massive advantage over the nikola hydrogen fuel cell trucks in the base cost to operate on shorter hauls but they also have an.