Electric vehicles, fine, but hydrogen fuel cell cars are even better

Excerpted from Capitol Weekly 

By Will Shuck

"Driving a fuel-cell car means hunting for stations, dealing with shortages and managing an unfamiliar nozzle that sometimes freezes to the car — but Sen. Josh Newman loves it.

'I’m the self-appointed chair of the ‘Hydrogen Car Caucus,’' said the senator from Orange County, whose personal car is a 2021 Toyota Mirai. Sen. Dave Min, D-Irvine and Asssemblymember Bill Quirk, D-Hayward also drive, and advocate for, hydrogen vehicles.

'These are wonderful cars,' Newman said.

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'Sufficient infrastructure creates a self-sustaining market,' he said. 'It’s a chicken and egg thing. Government needs to help advance the platform. We need to allocate funding for the buildout.'

Government does help, but not as much as it helps the electric vehicle market. That’s only partially a policy choice. It’s an acknowledgment of reality. Electric vehicles are ahead. There are more models, more price points and more places to “fill up.” They’ve been on the market longer and there are 50 times as many of them on California roads."

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