Hydrogen early adopter faces big problems amid Nikola challenges: – “Nikola stock sinks to a 52-week low, a NHTSA complaint claiming the fuel cell shuts down unpredictably, and one of hydrogen’s early adopters remains unconvinced. Is it time for Nikola to throw in the towel on hydrogen?”

Nikola is still a thing?

But yes, particularly in Europe hydrogen for trucking has no upsides and only downsides. That race is run.

The ‘faster charging’ does not give an upside because of mandatory break times for truckers which are long enough to charge up (and unlike “fueling up”, “charging up” does not count as “work time”, so hdyrogen trucks are actaully at a *disadvantage* here)

The potentially bigger range of hydrogen trucks does not give an advantage for the same reason. Battery trucks already have big enough batteries to get them through the work hours.

The downsides for hydrogen – higher fuel costs, higher maintenance cost as well as extremely limited amount and unreliable fueling stations – are real, though. (That, and no one in Europe is building hydrogen fueling stations anymore. Some *entire countries* have already shut down what little hydrogen fueling infrastructure they had)