A road trip on the hydrogen highway

The Vergecast

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News, Tech News, Technology

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🗓️ 20 August 2024

⏱️ 61 minutes

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Today on the flagship podcast of hydrogen futures: The Verge’s William Poor, Andrew Marino, and Alex Parkin head to California to figure out why hydrogen fuel cell technology, once a super-promising successor to gasoline, lost out to battery electric cars. They also put the embattled tech to the test with a road trip across California’s “hydrogen highway.” Further reading: Check out the interactive map of our trip here, and the video version of the story here. Read Andrew Hawkins’ story about the future of hydrogen fuel cell tech here. Read Justine Calma’s coverage of federal green hydrogen programs here. Go deep into California zero emission transportation policy here. Credits: Fact Check by Jasmine Arielle Ting Thanks to: Bill Elrick, Hydrogen Fuel Cell Partnership Michael McCurdy, California State Library Archival footage courtesy of Global ImageWorks, LLC Email us at [email protected] or call us at 866-VERGE11, we love hearing from you. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	Welcome to the Virgecast, the flagship podcast of Hydrogen Futures.
0:06.0	I'm your friend David Pierce and I am trying to redecorate a bit.
0:11.0	So if you watch the Virchcast on YouTube you've noticed that we just recently got a really awesome new studio in our New York office. You may have also noticed that
0:20.0	Nelai got a really awesome new studio in his house.
0:23.2	So I'm very jealous of all of this,
0:24.8	which has really led me to spend,
0:26.5	I would say, an inappropriate and unnecessary amount of time
0:30.0	trying to figure out my own background.
0:32.3	I feel like everyone went through this like in 2020 when we all started being home more often.
0:36.4	You started to be aware of kind of how your space looks on camera.
0:40.7	I make a podcast on camera now and so I notice it more than is probably healthy or
0:46.0	reasonable and I've just been trying to figure out how do we make this look a little
0:49.4	nicer a little more studio-ish and less like the basement slash home office slash guest room
0:56.2	slash child play place that it actually is. So I suggested this to Liam or producer that
1:01.6	maybe I wanted to do some stuff.
1:03.1	He sent me a long list of things to do.
1:05.3	He wants me to put blinds on the window.
1:07.2	He wants me to move the guitar that's over here.
1:10.8	But I think I actually just need to get rid of it
1:12.2	because I don't play it enough or well enough for it to feel honest to have a guitar on the shot.
1:16.0	I already put some books up that I think look nicer than the mugs that were there.
1:20.0	The mugs are now up there. There's just a lot going on.
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