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Shell Closes UK Hydrogen Filling Stations as EVs Dominate

  • The sites in England were prototypes that were never scaled up
  • Automakers have focused on electric cars as battery costs fall

A hydrogen charging pump at Shell Plc’s filling station in Cobham, UK.

Photographer: Chris Ratcliffe/Bloomberg
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Shell Plc quietly shut down two UK hydrogen filling stations earlier this year as electric vehicles became the preferred way to cut greenhouse gas emissions on the roads.