Technology Quarterly | Heavy transport

Lorries can help deliver the hydrogen economy

Reducing road-freight emissions is taking many forms

“GET THE hell out of our way and stop funding the oil companies. That’s the thing that pisses me off,” thunders Trevor Milton, boss of Nikola, an American startup making hydrogen-powered lorries. His rage is directed at the government, and not for nothing does he sound like Elon Musk, the other clean-energy maverick with a company named after Nikola Tesla, developer of the alternating-current electric motor. He and Mr Musk are engaged in a race to decarbonise road transport.

This article appeared in the Technology Quarterly section of the print edition under the headline “The great freight race”

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