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Uhh... going pretty strong. Prices have been gradually coming down and there is a lot of interest from industry. However, since batteries have also improved in the meantime, the focus is moving away from consumer applications (cars) to larger ones (ships, buses, trucks, trains, even regional planes), so they are not so visible to the man in the street.

I do work in hydrogen & fuel cells, and in the last 2-3 years we have seen a surge in industrial interest we can barely handle. We know that FC manufacturers are tooling for mass production, at which point prices will fall a lot faster. At this point we are where batteries were about 15 years ago, with some applications ready for deployment (buses, home CHP, trucks, trains) and plenty of others in advanced development—maritime is likely the next big thing.

So just because you don't hear about it in the 9 o'clock news it does not mean it has been abandoned. It has simply dipped down from the hype peak and started maturing.

https://nikolamotor.com/one --Seems like hydrogen works pretty well.

https://arstechnica.com/cars/2...

https://www.tesla.com/en_CA/se...

https://nikolamotor.com/one

https://www.tesla.com/en_CA/mo...

https://www.arcimoto.com/vehic...

http://www.zeromotorcycles.com...

https://nikolamotor.com/one https://www.theverge.com/2017/... http://www.foxnews.com/auto/20...

there is already a truck that does that, but it hydrogen power electric and good for 800-1200 miles https://nikolamotor.com/one

https://nikolamotor.com/one - nikola offering 800-1200 mile range and 15 minute to refill - its a hydrogen powered EV

Hydrogen is a going to part of the solution, but it will primarily be used for trucking and transportation. See https://nikolamotor.com. It can easily and cheaply be produced when energy prices go negative. Also you wouldn't put all of the solar panels in a single spot even if that spot is 10,000 square miles.

there are electric trucks.. https://nikolamotor.com/one http://www.wired.co.uk/article... http://www.emoss.biz/electric-...

Unlike most of you I went to the Nikola Motors website.

While there is undoubtedly some hype here's what they said.

There are 2 electric motors on the front axle and it looks like 4 electric motors on the rear axles. The motors have 2 gear automatic transmissions. The truck has what they call torque vectoring which adjusts the wheel speed while turning or maneuvering. There is a 100 gallon CNG tank powering a nearly 400 kw turbine. The turbine if fuel agnostic running on diesel, gasoline or CNG. You can choose your fuel at the time of purchase. They claim the 100 gallon CNG tank is enough for 800 -1,200 miles depending on terrain and load. The turbine will run for 1 hour out of every 3-5 hours of pure electric driving. It of course had regenerative braking but there are also air powered disk brakes on all 6 wheels (of course they'd have to have an air system so they can hook up to the trailer brakes too). They claim the truck will stop in about half the distance of a normal diesel rig.

For the first 25,000 customers they are offering free fuel for the first million miles. They own the rights to some gas wells and are setting up 55 fueling stations around the country and Canada that are spaced close enough that you can easily make if from one to the next. You can lease the truck for $5,000/month and that includes free fuel, warranty and scheduled maintenance (I doubt tires are included) and at the end of the warranty period (72 months or 1 million miles whichever comes first) you can trade it in on a new one. They also say the Nikola-one is around 2,000 pounds lighter than the equivalent diesel tractor increasing the payload you can carry.

Lots more information at the website.

If you go to the site https://nikolamotor.com/one you will notice that the reserve price of the truck is only 1,500 USD... so take 7000 pre-orders and you have around 10.5 M USD. Perhaps they are thinking of the total price of the truck? so 2.3 B / 7000 = 329k for the truck.

Did anybody see this: Nikola Zero 520HP four-wheeler? Woohoo!!!!