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Hyundai has a message for anyone writing the obituary of the hydrogen car: not yet. Speaking to the Australian outlet CarExpert, Scott Nargar, senior manager of future mobility and government relations at Hyundai Australia, insisted that hydrogen is not "dead for passenger vehicles," while conceding the core problem in a single sentence: "The biggest thing is you've got to find customers" (Dnistran, 2026). That candid admission captures where fuel cell vehicles stand in late 2026, with...

Europe just put a price tag on finding hydrogen in the ground. On October 28, 2026, a coalition of more than 30 European energy organizations led by the French exploration company Mantle8 presented an open letter to European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen at European Hydrogen Week in Brussels. The letter asks the European Union to launch a European Natural Hydrogen Initiative backed by a one billion euro exploration envelope that would fund roughly 50 exploration and appraisal...

Green hydrogen has a water problem that rarely makes headlines. Electrolyzers, the machines that split water into hydrogen and oxygen using electricity, are designed to run on highly purified freshwater. Yet many of the places with the best solar resources, from the Arabian Gulf to North Africa and northern Chile, are also among the driest on Earth. A team at the University of Sharjah in the United Arab Emirates now reports a catalyst that could let electrolyzers draw directly from the ocean,...