Hydrogen Highways

Hydrogen highways, plural, not just the hydrogen highway is what this website is all about. As hydrogen cars are produced and the supporting hydrogen infrastructure is built there are a number of hydrogen highways being built all over the world.

Hydrogen Highway

One of the most notable hydrogen highway systems is being built in California, USA, which is itself the fifth largest economy in the world. Other hydrogen highway corridors are also being built in other places in the world such as Canada, Japan, Iceland, Norway, Denmark, Germany and Sweden.

Because hydrogen is being seen as the fuel of the future, much technological development is being enacted today. Hydrogen cars, both fuel cell vehicles (FCVs) and internal combustion engine (ICE) vehicles are being produced and tested by the major automobile manufacturers. Approximately 60 different hydrogen cars have been built and tested since the year 2000.

Hydrogen vehicles are not just one type of hydrogen car, though. Other hydrogen vehicles include trucks, minivans, SUVs, buses, motorcycles, taxis, delivery vans, forklifts and even mining equipment. These hydrogen vehicles will need to one day make use of the highways, bi-ways and roadways of this nation and other nations as well.

Finding hydrogen fuel along common routes and not so common routes will be paramount in enabling a free flow of traffic. But, we are not there yet.

On this website, we plan to document the growth of the different hydrogen highway systems all over the world, in order to show how seriously different nations are taking this technological and environmental challenge before us.

Hydrogen highways will cut down on pollution and eliminate our dependence upon foreign oil and even eliminate our dependence upon domestic oil. Our cities and towns will become cleaner and greener due to the elimination of pollutants caused by the transportation industry.

Like many large technological advancements, things will start off slowly, but then tend to gear up quickly. On this site, we plan to show the different hydrogen highway systems as they develop from the seedling systems they are today, to the full bloom of systems they will become in the not so distant future. Many of the hydrogen highways already mentioned are further along that you think and even offer public refueling opportunities. Growth is exciting, don't you think?

Germany, Japan and even Norway look like they will be the first real hydrogen highway systems. The U. S. because we are so large will lag a bit. But, that's Okay. We'll catch up when the time is right. And, if there is political will to do so.