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Hydrogen Facts

• Hydrogen can be made from a wide variety of domestic, renewable resources such as solar, wind, biomass, and geothermal energy.
• Enough hydrogen is produced in the U.S. every year to fuel 34 million fuel cell vehicles. Right now the hydrogen is used primarily for commercial purposes such as cleaning up gasoline and processing certain foods.
• Hydrogen is neither more nor less hazardous than more common fuels like natural gas, propane, or gasoline.
• Compared to conventional gasoline engines, hydrogen powered engines have very low criteria emissions and near-zero greenhouse gas emissions when the hydrogen is produced from low carbon or renewable resources.
• Hydrogen is up to 25 percent more efficient than gasoline in conventional spark ignition engines and around 100 percent more efficient in fuel cell power trains.
• Only modest design modifications to standard combustion engine technology are needed, so the engine technology is familiar to mechanics and fleet personnel.
• With very few cost and technical issues limiting commercialization and deployment, H2ICE vehicles can help create the demand needed to support the build out of a hydrogen infrastructure.