Fuel Cell Firm CEO Doesn’t Believe in Fuel Cell Cars (Corrected)

March 21, 2019, 1:00 PM UTCUpdated: March 21, 2019, 5:34 PM UTC

Fuel cells have no more passionate an advocate than Bloom Energy Corp. Chief Executive Officer K.R. Sridhar, whose company makes power generators with them and tirelessly touts their ability to produce clean energy.

He just doesn’t like them in cars.

K.R. Sridhar
Photographer: Kiyoshi Ota/Bloomberg

“It’s not the right use for them,” he said Wednesday in an interview in San Francisco. “I’m not a believer in it.”

In perhaps the latest sign of the electric car boom overtaking hydrogen, Sridhar said fuel cells make more sense powering the stations that charge EVs as opposed to powering cars themselves. “I believe fuel cells will still ...

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