Fuel cell versions of Nikola’s Tre semi truck go into production in 2023, a year after the company starts building battery-powered versions. Nikola Corp. Nikola Corp.’s goal of building and fueling pollution-free fuel cell electric trucks is getting a boost from a new partnership with oil and gas giant TC Energy—the company behind the now-canceled Keystone XL pipeline project—to set up large-scale hubs to produce hydrogen. Nikola and TC Energy, headquartered in Calgary, tell Forbes they plan to jointly design, build and operate high-volume hydrogen production facilities over the next five years that will have significantly more capacity than Nikola’s first stations. Initially, the Phoenix-based company will operate hydrogen stations that make up to 8 tons of the clean fuel daily. The project with TC Energy will result in hubs generating 150 tons or more per day, both for trucks and for the Canadian company’s energy customers. The partnership doesn’t include investment in Nikola by TC Energy and the companies aren’t yet saying how m… Click below to read the full story from Forbes
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