HYDROGEN WON'T ACCEPT ‘NO’ FOR AN ANSWER

From automakers to companies in the wider mobility industry, hydrogen power is seeing no shortage of investment and research even as some remain unconvinced of its future.

Most outsiders to the transportation industry don't know much about rapid developments in hydrogen fuel-cell and hydrogen internal-combustion. There just aren't the large-scale commercial and public efforts to inform the public as exist for the battery-electric vehicle market. Still, 50% of people in a recent Department of Energy survey said they understood that hydrogen has a chance to be a clean alternative source of power for vehicles and even for homes.

Spotlight or no, progress is being made. And though much of it is outside the United States, American cities and companies have absolutely not given up on the technology. SAE Media wanted to check in and note recent transportation developments that use the earth's most abundant element.