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Both Governor Ige and state lawmakers are pushing policies to increase the use of electric vehicles and produce more green energy.
While Hawaii’s utilities are expanding renewable electricity generation, more than half of all energy usage in the islands goes to power transportation; predominantly in the form of gasoline and jet fuel.
Although they are increasing in popularity with consumers, electric vehicles still account for a relatively small share of ground transpiration. Electrification is unlikely to replace conventional jet fuel for air travel anytime soon.
That has some officials looking at another carbon-free energy source: hydrogen.
Using hydrogen as a fuel source isn’t a new idea. Experiments with hydrogen technology go back as far as the 1830’s.