DesertSprings
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AndyH said:Do you know why? Does the state have a long-term plan, or have they been taken-over by the H2 industry, or? I wan to understand why they're pro-H2. Thanks!evchels said:CA is rabidly pro-hydrogen.
Lobbying money, plain and simple. Toyota, Honda, (and yes even Nissan), have invested a lot of money into fuel cell technology, and the petroleum industry needs to sell all the hydrogen they capture from Natural Gas production plus the fear that some day most EV charging will be done at home, vs hydrogen where you'll still need to "pump it" at a station. These are big lobbying groups with decades old relationships with the various politicians and bureaucrats who run things.
Versus Telsa, who only has a tiny fraction of the lobbying money to throw around and who else? Nissan, maybe, they're conflicted. The Electric Utilities, maybe. They seem to be slow to coming around to the benefits of EVs for them. The other car vendors who are only producing EVs because they're forced to? Probably not.