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In one of its more recently shared partnership developments, Nikola joined forces with Nel Hydrogen, a Norwegian hydrogen solutions provider, for the production of 85MW alkaline electrolysers to support five of the world’s first eight tonnes per day hydrogen fuelling stations Nikola hopes to deploy.

The deal was valued in excess of $30m and will allow Nikola to produce over 40,000kgs of hydrogen each day, marking a vital development for the company.

“Using technology that Nel has developed over many decades, using the renewable electricity coming into the grid, will allow us to make hydrogen at very reasonable prices,” Russell explained.

“We have a model that we worked on with Nel where we know we can build these stations just about anywhere in the world, accessible to long-haul routes, and we can do it in a modular fashion for a predictable price.”

“Nikola has worked on this exclusively with Nel. Our combined teams have come up with several pacts for the integration, and we are certain that we can put these stations in.”

Speaking at the time of the announcement, Trevor Milton, Nikola’s Founder and Executive Chairman expressed that the partnership will help Nikola achieve its goal of building the largest hydrogen network in the world.

Nel and Nikola, however, have been working closely for multiple years now after kickstarting their industry relations back in November 2017, when the Norwegian company was awarded the initial purchase order for Nikola’s demo stations.

Since that moment, the collaboration has continued to blossom and pushes forward both Nel’s ambition of a hydrogen-fuelled future and Nikola’s goal to decarbonise the transportation sector.

Nel and Nikola also signed a Memorandum of Understanding for a project to develop standardised heavy-duty, hydrogen fuelling hardware together along with other key industry partners including Air Liquide, Hyundai, Shell and Toyota. The data will later be given to the standards organisations, ISO, SAE, CSA to make a common nozzle, fueling protocol, etc.

“Heavy duty fuel cell trucks offer the same range as their conventional diesel counterparts and fueling hardware is being developed to fill in 15 minutes,” said Jesse Schneider, Executive Vice-President, Nikola Motor, Hydrogen & Fuel Cell Technologies.

“Key members of the industry have joined forces to evaluate HD Fueling Hardware to make this a reality. The goal is to enable interoperability so that any HD FCEVs can fuel at our hydrogen stations and we can fill at any of theirs, just like diesel today.”

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