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FirstElement Fuel’s Shane Stephens on hydrogen trucks’ long-term advantage (Part II)

Shift: A podcast about mobility

Automotive News

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4.831 Ratings

🗓️ 28 July 2024

⏱️ 29 minutes

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Summary

Although hydrogen may cost more initially, the FirstElement Fuel co-founder and chief business development officer argues hydrogen-powered trucks will be more efficient and viable than battery-electric counterparts at scale.

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0:00.0

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0:23.0

Hi everybody, welcome to Shift, podcast about mobility.

0:27.0

I'm Pete Bigelow, your host, and reporter at the Automotive News.

0:31.0

Today we bring you part two of our interview is Shane Stevens, co-founder and

0:35.3

chief business development officer at First Element Fuel, the company that's

0:39.6

been building and operating hydrogen fueling stations in California for about a decade now.

0:45.4

In today's part, we get into how hydrogen-powered vehicles really compare and contrast to

0:50.9

battery electrics. But first, we have a look at this week's headlines and for that I'm joined by my

0:56.9

colleague Hannah Lutz. Hi Hannah how are you today? Hi Pete doing well how are you?

1:02.4

Doing pretty good.

1:04.0

Hannah, let's kick this off.

1:05.0

I know you had a big story, a series of stories that ran earlier this week on EV economics.

1:12.0

I'm curious if you can fill us in on that. this week on EV economics.

1:12.6

I'm curious if you can fill us in on that

1:15.5

and some of the reaction or feedback

1:18.5

that you got from the package.

1:20.4

Yeah, we ran this big package on really the economics of owning an EV and looked at it state by state.

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