Quick Charge | hydrogen hype falls flat amid very public failures

On today's hyped up hydrogen episode of Quick Charge, we look at some of the fuel's recent failures and billion dollar bungles as the fuel cell crowd continues to lose the credibility race against a rapidly evolving battery electric market.

We're taking a look at some of the recent hydrogen failures of 2025 – including nine-figure product cancellations in the US and Korea, a series of simultaneous bus failures in Poland, and European executives, experts, and economists calling for EU governments to ditch hydrogen and focus on the deployment of a more widespread electric trucking infrastructure.

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• Another hydrogen fail as Renault subsidiary Hyvia struggles to survive
• Another L for H as every hydrogen bus in this European city fails at once
• It just gets worse for Nikola as massive hydrogen recall follows bankruptcy
• Nikola founder Trevor Milton pardoned after $1.8m bribe to Trump (Updated)
• More hydrogen fails: Doosan, Air Products cancel over $1 billion in fuel cell deals
• MAN CEO: “impossible” for hydrogen to compete with BEVs
• Mahle CEO Arnd Franz says hydrogen will fail without fossil fuels
• Economists, experts call for governments to ditch hydrogen, go fully electric

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