With hydrogen fuel cell cars set to arrive at dealerships in 2015 (e.g. you can read about Toyota’s hydrogen fuel cell vehicles here), the focus now needs to be on building the hydrogen infrastructure.
Here are eight ways to finance the initial hydrogen fueling stations:
1. $5 million tax credit from the U.S. federal government for each of the first 12,000 large-scale hydrogen fueling stations (Cost – $60 billion)
2. Hydrogen fueling stations financed and built by the oil companies
3. Hydrogen fueling stations financed and built by companies not currently involved with oil
4. Government-guaranteed loans to companies who build hydrogen fueling stations
5. Hydrogen fueling station cooperatives (which could be done without the oil companies or the federal government)
6. Hydrogen fueling station bonds (with low minimum purchase amounts so small investors can buy them)
7. Hydrogen fueling station equities (with low minimum purchase amounts so small investors can buy them)
8. A combination of two or more of the options mentioned above
[Photo credit: skidrd]
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- Copy of Letter of Understanding from eight car companies calling for initial hydrogen fueling stations to be built by 2015
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