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FirstElement Fuel’s California hydrogen network receives $24M from Mitsui and Air Liquide; quadrupling its retail capacity

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FirstElement Fuel has secured $24 million to help fund the growth of its True Zero Hydrogen Network of retail stations in California, and thereby quadruple the company’s capacity to dispense retail hydrogen to customers of fuel cell electric vehicles. FirstElement Fuel’s retail hydrogen network is the largest in the world today.

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Air Liquide to build $150M liquid hydrogen plant in US; long-term agreement with, investment in FirstElement Fuel

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Air Liquide expects to invest more than US$150 million to build a liquid hydrogen plant in the western United States, with construction to begin in early 2019. The plant will have a capacity of nearly 30 tons of hydrogen per day—an amount that can fuel 35,000 Fuel Cell Electric Vehicles (FCEVs).

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True Zero fuels 1M hydrogen fuel cell vehicle miles in California

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Retail hydrogen-station operator True Zero reported that it has powered more than 1,000,000 zero-emission miles by fuel-cell vehicles. Toyota has recently accelerated sales of its hydrogen-powered Mirai in California, as the hydrogen-charging network has grown.

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USDOT awarding $55M to support purchase of Low-No buses; electric buses and infrastructure

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million for hydrogen fuel cell buses. Champaign-Urbana Mass Transit will receive funding to purchase New Flyer 60' zero-emission fuel cell electric buses with supporting hydrogen infrastructure. CUMTD will produce hydrogen on-site partially from renewable sources. Tahoe Transportation District. 1,000,000.

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