Green Overdrive: We drive a fuel cell fork lift!

We bring you a first for the Green Overdrive show: we test drive a fuel cell fork lift! Recently we visited Oorja, a fuel cell startup in Fremont, Calif., which makes methanol fuel cells that are being used as extra power for fork lifts in factories. OK, so factory workers aren’t going to be as goofy as me, driving this one around the parking lot at Oorja’s HQ in our latest video, but you get the picture of how these things work and can extend battery range for industrial vehicles.



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