Thaler and Sunstein in their book Nudge, The Final Edition, suggest: “If the goal is to make the environment cleaner, a simple idea is to make the green option the easy option”. My takeaway: When encouraging folks to choose a zero-CO2 vehicle, the recommended choice should simply be better than the alternatives.

My first two Hydrogen Fuel News articles (at https://tinyurl.com/33syb2dz and  https://tinyurl.com/2d7crwkh) recommend that Ford should change course immediately to hit this goal. The driving range of its new battery-electric Lightning pickup will be anemic, especially when towing a trailer. Ford should convert it to hydrogen-electric and support it with a country-wide “starter network” of fuel stations. Those stations would produce their own hydrogen on the spot, from solar electricity and water – no tanker trucks or pipelines need apply. A hydrogen-powered “LightningH” will have a thousand-mile range using its 580 kWh of stored energy — 500 miles even when towing a travel trailer. The result will be a truck that can do its job better than any other choice. The only Nudge required will be built-in: word of mouth from owners enthused about its superior power, range and whisper-quietness. It’s easy to imagine 50 million clean and green H-trucks on the road by 2035, given the 60 million fossil-fueled pickups out there now (with ten-year average lifespans). The LightningH (and H-trucks from other manufacturers) should own the market well before 2030.

But wait, there’s more! 😉 

About ten million of us own RV’s, happily navigating them through the North American vistas. Trailers and motorhomes must also have zero-CO2 propulsion within a decade or so. What if we follow the “Nudge Rule” and develop RVs that are better in every way than the current models?

We can! Let’s have a little fun with the LightningH chassis:

Extracted in full from: Cool, refreshing hydrogen-powered RVs! ~ Hydrogen Fuel News

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