According to AFDC, there are only 12 publicly available hydrogen refueling stations in the U.S. They are in 3 states (California, South Carolina, and Connecticut). Most of the 12 are in California.
http://www.afdc.energy.gov/fuels/hydrogen_locations.html Mike On June 29, 2014 9:16:56 AM MDT, Dennis Miles via EV <ev@lists.evdl.org> wrote: >Peri, some of us read and comprehend your postings, I agree with you. >Hydrogen has a long tail pipe with a diameter twice as large as >electricity >from the utility has and wastes 50% of the solar PV electric produced >if it >used to form hydrogen, compared to other uses for the electric power. > >The REAL purpose for fuel cell development vehicles is the SEVEN TIMES >the >credit, for EV, toward being allowed to sell gas (ICE) cars. (So called >Compliance Cars). The critical designating point is their only being >leased, not sold, and only in Southern California, where there are four >Hydrogen retailers, of the, only about 40, in the remainder, of the >USA. >(But, the manufacturers are not leasing in any other states...) > >*Dennis Lee Miles * > >*Director **E.V.T.I. Inc.* > >*E-Mail:* *evprofes...@evprofessor.com* <evprofes...@evprofessor.com> > > *Phone #* *(863) 944-9913* > >Dade City, Florida 33523 > > USA > > > > >On Sun, Jun 29, 2014 at 10:12 AM, Peri Hartman via EV ><ev@lists.evdl.org> >wrote: > >> This is another oblivious report on hydrogen as a fuel. I sent a >comment >> to the editor but could not figure out how to post a comment for the >> article (logging into the forum does not allow you to post comments >for an >> article). >> >> Here's what I posted: >> >> In the article "Global automakers split on 'green car' strategy", By >AFP >> on June 19, 2014, the author has committed a terrible disservice to >your >> readers in his description of hydrogen as a fuel. >> >> He says that using hydrogen will produce nothing more harmful than >water. >> No mention whatsoever is made of where hydrogen comes from. It must >> either come from "cracking" water, which takes a tremendous amount of >> energy which, in turn, must come from somewhere. Or it comes from >natural >> gas or other petroleum based fuels which must be mined and refined >with all >> the current existing problems and harmful byproducts. >> >> Hydrogen as a fuel can only be a short term solution. If a large >> percentage of vehicles were to use hydrogen, the environmental and >monetary >> costs would be visible to the public and prohibitive. >> >> Please be more responsible in your reporting! Thanks. >> >> Peri _______________________________________________ UNSUBSCRIBE: http://www.evdl.org/help/index.html#usub http://lists.evdl.org/listinfo.cgi/ev-evdl.org For EV drag racing discussion, please use NEDRA (http://groups.yahoo.com/group/NEDRA)
