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The Hydrogen-Powered Car’s Big Setback

A two-year trial to offer cars that consume Earth’s most common element and emit only water will end over high costs.
Photographer: David Paul Morris/Bloomberg
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If a green ride-sharing service were to flourish anywhere it would be in Munich, where you can rent no-emission cars on just about any city-center street. And yet Linde AG is about to shut its two-year experiment with hydrogen.

It’s another setback for fuel cell-powered cars against those that run on batteries.