California Hydrogen Highway

The California Hydrogen Highway is a series of hydrogen refueling stations in California. These stations are used to refuel hydrogen vehicles. As of August 2020^[update], there were 42 publicly accessible hydrogen refueling stations in California.^[1]

History

The California Hydrogen Highway Network (CaH2Net) was initiated in April 2004 by Executive Order (EO) S-07-04 under Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger with the purpose of promoting hydrogen refueling stations in California.^[2] Other initiatives followed in California.^[3]

As of 2007, 25 stations were in operation.^[4] Some of these hydrogen fueling stations completed the terms of their government-funded research demonstration project and were decommissioned.^[5] In 2012, there were 23 hydrogen fueling stations in California,^[6] eight of which were publicly accessible.^[7][8] In 2013 Governor Brown signed AB 8, a bill to fund $20 million a year for up to 100 stations.^[9][10]

As of July 2025^[update], there were 50 publicly accessible hydrogen fueling stations in California (one station in Hawaii and one in Washington were the only other publicly accessible hydrogen stations in the US).^[11][12]

See also

• Hydrogen infrastructure
• Hydrogen economy